Royal Mail insists there is no backlog of postal votes to be sent out
Royal Mail has issued a message to anyone planning to vote by post in the general election in response to reports that some areas were experiencing delays to the delivery of ballot packs.
Appearing on Tuesday’s morning broadcast round, health minister Maria Caulfield had said that Mr Hollinrake was "in direct contact" with Royal Mail and "investigating this urgently". She said: "I know there’s extra resources going into this to try and do a sweep of all the sorting offices and make sure they’re out there."
It comes after Mr Hollinrake told the Telegraph that he did not think there was any issue at play “other than Royal Mail being competent and fulfilling their obligations under the USO ”. He added: “At the moment the printers have been working flat out, Royal Mail have been working really flat out, so have electoral administrators to try to get postal votes out so everyone can vote.” He said the last batches should have been delivered to people on Monday and Tuesday, but that if voters are already abroad then “there’s very little” that can be done.
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