UPPER Park residents have written to Post Office bosses, dismayed at the loss of their postman.

The letter states:

Dear Sirs.

We are writing to you as a community to let you know how upset and angry we are that we are about to lose our regular postman.  

Simon, who is not just our postman but a trusted friend and carer of his delivery patch, is greatly valued by all of us. He goes over and above his post office duties with no detrimental effect to the job, by helping the elderly, noticing when things are not right and recently, being a big help to the police in a murder investigation.

Simon has built up relationships on his round and delivers an excellent service.  He goes out of his way to make sure packages are left and not sent back to the delivery office, which can cause problems for the customer and extra work for your very busy collection office.

This is totally unfair to him – and other postmen who have delivered to a regular area for many years – to change his daily routine, which he enjoys, for what reason?! Can you explain why this is happening because we can see no logic to changing what works well.

We want to keep Simon as our postman and will be doing all we can to make this happen.

We have contacted Your Harlow about this matter.

From the very grateful

Residents of Upper Park, Harlow