Postal woes never seem to end

I read with great interest your article “Mail delays are not our fault, post office insists” Sunday Mail, September 15.

To add to previous problems I have had, on July 29, I posted my great-granddaughter in the UK a necklace (not valuable so not registered) it has never been received. On the same day at the same time I posted my granddaughter in Australia a post card which arrived with no problem.

On August 26 I posted my granddaughter her birthday card and a cheque to the UK with a letter for her mother in a brown envelope about 6” x 9” (to disguise it was a card and therefore possibly money or cheque enclosed) and to date there is no sign of it. I have requested my bank cancel the cheque and will in future do an online transfer for birthday and Christmas money and send e cards, this of course will mean less use of the postal services.

These are articles were posted from Cyprus to the UK, so I wonder what the excuse will be for these. I have been unable to find any way to contact post office officials and when you go to the postal services website and click on ‘Contact Us’ it has no entries.

JD, Larnaca

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