Thoughtful postie earns free night at Campbeltown hotel
A thoughtful postman is being offered a free night’s stay at a Campbeltown hotel for his kindness in returning a lost room key – if the hotel’s owners are able to trace him.
Tracey and Bruce Strang of the Dellwood Hotel contacted the Courier after a room key, which was accidently taken home by one of their guests, landed in their letter box, but it was not sent by the person they expected.
Tracey explained: ‘One of our guests, who stayed with us a couple of weeks ago, went away home with one of our door keys. He then phoned me up and told me he had found it in his pocket and said ‘I’ll just drop it into the post box and send it back to you’.
‘I thanked him very much and thought that was the end of it. Then, last week, the key arrived in a sealed envelope, along with a note from a postman.’
The hand-written note, which arrived in a special delivery envelope, read: ‘Found this key in a Royal Mail post box in Stranraer. From Steve Dunn, postman PHG [postman higher grade].’
It seems as though the guest had been speaking literally when he said he would drop the key – which was attached to a wooden keyring on which the hotel’s full address was written – in the post box, depositing it unwrapped and without paying postage.
Also included on the keyring was a key to the hotel’s main door. Both keys are traditional metal keys, not key cards like some hotels use, meaning the Dellwood’s owners would have had to get replacement keys cut if the originals had not been returned.
‘The postie took it upon himself to put them in an envelope and pay the postage,’ Tracey said. ‘I think that’s lovely and I’d like to trace him and offer him a free night at the Dellwood.
‘Royal Mail are up against it at the moment, with a lot of competition from big online companies, but you can’t beat a good old-fashioned postie. They’re always going above and beyond.’
The Courier has contacted Royal Mail in a bid to trace the thoughtful postman.