Postcode woes lead to delivery difficulties

Sir,

We refer to your recent article regarding delivery difficulties to this area.

Those Oban and the surrounding area residents with postcodes PA34 5** are listed as living in the Highland region and our names do not appear in the Argyll and Bute telephone directory.

In addition to this anomaly, we have been refused delivery of an internet purchase on one occasion and we are charged additional delivery fees on most internet purchases all because some jobsworth in Post Office HQ has not bothered to refer to a map of this area.

We have tried, along with one or two other Oban residents, to have this ridiculous state of affairs rectified but it is impossible to find in which department this jobsworth has his/her desk.

Contact has therefore been made with our MSP Donald Cameron to try to resolve this issue so we urge all those residents with the postcode PA34 5** to contact his office in George Street (telephone 01631 563474) to complain about the situation.

Hopefully, the Post Office can be made to see the error of its ways and put the other half of Oban back into Argyll and Bute.

K Oxland, Oban.