Was wool pulled over MP's eyes during recent sorting office visit? Emphatically not says Royal Mail

                                    

Demanding full disclosure - Melanie Onn

THE Government's Small Business minister, Blair McDougall, has been asked to intervene in a transparency row involving MP Melanie Onn and the  Royal Mail's sorting office in Grimsby.

When she paid a recent fact-finding visit to the Fotherby Street premises, the MP was shown empty mail frames, indicating that letters were out for delivery.

But she claims she has since been told by posties that the mail was not out for delivery - instead being hidden away to give the impression of service being carried out as normal.

However, this allegation - effectively that she had been duped - has been emphatically rejected by Royal Mail.

Now Ms Onn has written to the minister, asking him to get the bottom of the matter.

"I should be grateful if you could raise this disparity with Royal Mail," she writes. "Visits are of much greater value if they are honestly displayed.

"It is essential for my constituents that we can get a full picture of what services are being disrupted locally, why and how these matters can be addressed."                                                   

The MP has made public the letter she has written to the minister responsible for oversight of the Royal Mail