'We are all up in arms about it.'
A row has broken out on a street for retirees after Royal Mail stopped deliveries A row has broken out on a street for retirees after Royal Mail stopped deliveries ‘because of a barking dog’. Brian, a Patterdale terrier, is the residents’ ‘security alarm’ on Alan Gutridge Drive in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. But Royal Mail last week said it was stopping deliveries allegedly because the 12-year-old pooch barked at a postman.
Residents, Brian and his owner David Rogers and Eileen Jones But it gives specific hours when they can do that. And Mrs Jones added: ‘It is not easy for people with mobility problems to park up and go to the post office during the rush hour. ‘We also don’t know if we have got any post to collect, so it could be a wasted journey. ‘People can take ID if family collect it for them but we can’t arrange for one person to go and pick it all up.’ But Elsie Andrew, 81, supports the Royal Mail decision.
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