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Islington Tribune - by PETER GRUNER
Published: 9 May 2008

Stephan Schulte with some of the wrong mail

Try Nottingham, not King’s Cross

ANGRY residents are demanding to know why dozens of letters, including one to an address in Nottingham, have been delivered to their block of flats in King’s Cross.
They are calling on Royal Mail to investigate the problem of a growing “tide” of letters with completely different addresses regularly arriving at the privately owned flats at York Central, York Way.
Ever since their regular postman quit the job, letters, addressed to residents and businesses in other parts of Islington – and in one case the personnel officer for a firm in Long Eaton, Nottingham – have found their way into the centralised mail centre at the flats.
York Central, with 41 residents and three businesses, including architects John Pawson, receives 50 to 60 items of mail each day.
Resident Stephan Schulte said: “We had a wonderful regular postman until he left a couple of months ago. But whenever he went on holiday our mail got into a mess. Now he’s gone for good and wrongly delivered mail appears to be a way of life.”
He added: “Either the new replacements are not being trained competently or no one is overseeing what the trainees are doing.
“We’ve had run-ins with postmen who say it is not their job to sort out wrongly delivered mail, suggesting that someone will come around later and sort it. We even had a bag of letters unopened simply dumped in our mailroom. There’s absolutely no excuse for wrongly delivered mail because the addresses are completely different.
A Royal Mail spokesman said: “We are investigating a complaint received by the customer and a monitor has now been placed on the deliveries in order to rectify any problems.”

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