Recent telephone polls asked if this area would consider changing to a Dutch firm to deliver the mail, and the answer was a big "yes, please".

Postal authorities must take responsibility for what is happening.

Closures are part of a larger agenda to drastically downsize staff numbers, and underhand methods have been used to dispose of mail workers.

Manchester University's studies showed the Royal Mail to be the worst offender in the whole of Europe for managerial harassment and bullying.

The Royal Mail has cancelled the first morning delivery, and many addresses do not now get mail til gone lunchtime, yet staff are prosecuted if they "delay" mail.

Hospital workers now have some redress if attacked while on duty, so do teachers, firemen and even ambulance drivers.

Yet the Royal Mail continually denies postmen are at risk, and in the case of the whistleblowers who informed that the Royal Mail was delivering millions of Nigerian banking scams, fake gambling offers, award notifications, non-existent holiday offers, catalogues, scam clothing offers, pyramid trash, child porn, fake psychic curses and spam, all over the country, these men were slid out of their jobs on technicalities.

If you receive any junk mail at all, put it back in the post marked: "unwanted, return to sender".

PAUL KIRMAN, Checker Street, Lynn