Mail in denial post-Brexit

AN unlikely Remainer fifth column has emerged – in our post bags. First, the Royal Mail resisted considerable pressure to print commemorative Brexit stamps. Now, the Post Office is acting like we never quit the EU.

When Yorkshire Tory MP Robert Goodwill tried to send his daughter, who lives in London, a box of chocolates for Easter, he was shocked to see that the official form he was required to complete categorised the capital city as being in the EU.

Goodwill – who describes himself as a ‘staunch Eurosceptic’ despite, err, backing Remain in the Referendum – was outraged. ‘I looked at the Certificate of Posting and there it was – “Destination Country – UK (EU)”,’ he said. ‘It’s over a year since we left the EU. Is someone at the Post Office in a state of denial?’

When approached to explain themselves, Post Office managers promised to put it right ‘in the near future’. In a rare case of officialdom admitting mistakes, I was told the error had occurred because the software hadn’t been updated.

Wrongly jailed and sacked employees of the Post Office’s disgraceful computer scandal take note.