Beverley and Holderness MP, Graham Stuart, has begun a campaign to stop the use of ‘North Humberside’ by the Post Office for East Riding of Yorkshire addresses.
The county of Humberside was created by the Local Government Act 1972 on 1 April, 1974. It was abolished in 1996. In its place came four individual unitary authorities: Kingston-upon-Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire and North-East Lincolnshire.
Residents in the East Riding have long complained of receiving written correspondence marked ‘North Humberside.’ The Royal Mail told Graham that it wanted to remove all references to counties from its official database, but had been persuaded not to by customers.
The Post Office said this was why out of date county references remained on its systems. Graham is arranging to meet the Royal Mail to discuss how ‘North Humberside’ can finally be removed from the database.
He said: “This anomaly has been with us for long enough. The county of Humberside was abolished nearly 12 years ago. It wasn’t popular at the best of times and people were glad to see the back of it. Most constituents I meet are proud to live in the East Riding of Yorkshire. They have great affection for it and it’s time that the Post Office recognised this and removed Humberside as a postal address.”
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment