I was interested to read the item in The Weekend Sun March 25, ‘When the mail doesn't get through'. What a headache for those people!

In our case too, the number was right, but the road name was wrong. And the same has happened to our neighbour.

NZ Post was contacted, and as far as we are aware, those mistakes have not happened lately. One of the people involved thought we may have a dyslexic postie.

Cousins in Dunedin receive a letter back with 'Return to Sender” on it, and thought we have moved. So now I put 'Not at this Address” for any mail that is not ours, and return it to the Post Box. And if it is an offence to open someone else's mail, is it also an offence to destroy it, or throw it away?

I have heard of this happening.

We just hope with the planned cutbacks by NZ Post (and the increase in postage!) that our mail problems will not get worse.

G Mackay, Tauranga