Junk mail whistle blower faces axe

Royal Mail has suspended a postman for telling people how to stop unaddressed door-drop mail being delivered to their houses.

Roger Annies, who works at the Barry Delivery Office, created and distributed leaflets that told customers how to opt out of Royal Mail's door-drop service.

The leaflet told recipients that Royal Mail plans to increase the amount of promotional mail it distributes. It also advised them to complete a slip and send it to the Royal Mail delivery office to stop such mail being delivered to their home.

In July, Royal Mail struck a deal with the Communication Workers Union to give post workers a 3.9% pay increase in exchange for revising the limits on the amount of unaddressed mail they carry.

While other types of mail delivery fell last year, unaddressed door-to-door mail deliveries grew by more than 12% to about 3.3bn items.

More than 2.8m people are currently signed up to the Mail Preference Service.

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