Time for Humberside to go

Local MP asks for support of subpostmasters in campaign against continued use of ‘North Humberside’ by the Royal Mail

2008-04-28T07:35:00.001-07:00

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28th April, 2008

Local MP asks for support of subpostmasters in campaign against continued use of ‘North Humberside’ by the Royal Mail

Local MP, Graham Stuart, has written to every Post Office in his constituency to ask for their support in his campaign to stop the use of ‘North Humberside’ by the Royal Mail for East Riding of Yorkshire addresses.

Graham has set up a website – http://www.timeforhumbersidetogo.blogspot.com/ – which contains an online petition and an address that people can use to complain to the Royal Mail. He has now sent copies of his petition to every Post Office in Beverley and Holderness, so that customers can make their feelings known. Once completed, he has asked that subpostmasters post the petitions back to him so that he can forward them on to the Royal Mail.

He said, “I’ve had a great response to the online petition and people have been signing the paper petition at my street surgeries on Saturday mornings. Now I want to give everybody the chance to get involved by displaying the petition at Post Offices across the constituency. I’d urge as many people as possible to show their support.”

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2008-04-15T02:48:00.001-07:00

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Write to the Royal Mail Group

2008-04-15T02:32:00.000-07:00

Show your support for Graham's campaign by writing to the Royal Mail Group direct. The address is:

Christine Nolan
Head of External Relations, North
Royal Mail Group
External Relations
Clippers Court
Clippers Quay
Salford
M50 3NW

Time for Humberside to go, says local MP

2008-04-15T02:22:00.000-07:00

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.”