A MELKSHAM postman has been dismissed from his role following complaints of mail going missing.
The news follows a number of concerns, shared by residents on the ‘Sham Shout Outs’ Facebook page, about their post not arriving when expected.
Speaking to Melksham News, Royal Mail confirmed that a postman was dismissed in connection with the complaints, for ‘not providing the high quality service they are committed to providing to their customers’.
A Royal Mail spokesperson said, “Royal Mail has a zero tolerance approach to any dishonesty and that stance is shared by the overwhelming majority of postmen and women, who are honest and hardworking and who do all they can to protect the mail and deliver it safely. Royal Mail will always seek to take action against the tiny minority of people who abuse their position of trust.”
Residents have also complained about their post arriving already opened, but Royal Mail say that they have not been made aware of any issues regarding opened or damaged mail by any Melksham residents.
A Royal Mail spokesperson said, “We apologise if any item of mail has been delivered to our customers in Melksham in a damaged condition. Every item of mail is important to us and we process and deliver many millions of items of mail each day without incident. Very occasionally, items of mail may be damaged as they pass through our processing machines.
“We can investigate any such incidents further if customers contact our customer services team with all the details via our website: www.royalmail.com, by telephone: 03457 740740 or via Twitter: @RoyalMail.”
![Melksham Times Past
A column about days gone by in Melksham by local historian Lisa Ellis
The Independent Chapel and Women’s Rights in the 1840s
A document I recently transcribed lists the baptisms performed at the Independent Chapel. This record is especially helpful in that, along with baptisms, a lot of them include birth dates - one of the ways I discover which day someone was born.
The following is taken from a Wiltshire Times article published on 9th November 1878 which reports a speech given during the 100-year services and to celebrate their renovations (what we now know to be the Rachel Fowler Centre).
One speaker, Rev. T. Mann, minister in Trowbridge, talked about the Chapel’s origins when he related how Rev. Honywill came to Melksham and how he’d gone on to remain as the minister for the Independent Chapel for almost 60 years. [Honywill and his family lived on King Street in what we now call “Legion House”.]
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A column about days gone by in Melksham by local historian Lisa Ellis
The Independent Chapel and Women’s Rights in the 1840s
A document I recently transcribed lists the baptisms performed at the Independent Chapel. This record is especially helpful in that, along with baptisms, a lot of them include birth dates - one of the ways I discover which day someone was born.
The following is taken from a Wiltshire Times article published on 9th November 1878 which reports a speech given during the 100-year services and to celebrate their renovations (what we now know to be the Rachel Fowler Centre).
One speaker, Rev. T. Mann, minister in Trowbridge, talked about the Chapel’s origins when he related how Rev. Honywill came to Melksham and how he’d gone on to remain as the minister for the Independent Chapel for almost 60 years. [Honywill and his family lived on King Street in what we now call “Legion House”.]
Read more on our website, the link is in our bio.")
