Police investigate nuisance mail to MSP
Police have been called in after an MSP was bombarded with 2,000 handwritten, but empty, freepost envelopes.
Liberal Democrat member for Edinburgh Western, Alex Cole-hamilton, received the pile of nuisance mail at his Clifton Terrace office last week. “We had a bit of a laugh about it at their expense,” he said. “It must’ve taken them two or three days, but it’s unlikely to cost us a penny.”
Mr Cole-hamilton said the freepost address was “widely available”, pushed through constituents’ doors on surveys so they can submit them completed to his office.
He said he suspected the sender intended for him to run up a bill of close to £1,000 in freepost fees. “Clearly this was designed to target us, to drain our resources, but what they didn’t know is that the Royal Mail might refund malicious misuse of postal addresses, as they may do in this case.”
A police spokesman said: “Police in Edinburgh have received a report of inappropriate use of a freepost service in the Corstorphine area.”