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By MAIRI MACDONALD
Special delivery as amateur postman finds letters

AN engineer who found a dumped bag of letters turned postman when he got fed up waiting for Royal Mail to collect them.
Adam Duff, who runs a workshop under railway arches in Kentish Town Road, Kentish Town, discovered more than 100 letters behind a rubbish bin and called Royal Mail to arrange for someone to collect them.
Despite reporting the find twice by phone and calling the Euston sorting office, no one came to collect the missing letters. When a postman finally showed up, he had no uniform or identification so Mr Duff refused to hand over the mail.
Instead, he dropped off the letters himself at addresses in Leybourne Road and Leybourne Street.
He said: “I couldn’t believe it. There were bills dating back to January 7. I had a look through and delivered a few straight away to some friends of mine who I knew would be waiting, but I thought I’d better hang on to the others in case someone called me back about them.”
He added: “I was worried folk would end up paying their bills late or missing out on job contracts so I did it myself.”
Grateful Leybourne Street resident Giles Perry, whose letters were delivered by the amateur postman, said: “I wondered what had happened to my letters, but this isn’t the first time this has happened.
“I’ve had a letter with a PIN number sent recently which has never reached me.”
A Royal Mail spokeswoman said: “Following Mr Duff’s phone call there was a miscommunication about how to retrieve the letters.
“We tried to pick them up but Mr Duff refused to give them to our representative so we have no way of finding out what happened.” Pictured: Adam Duff, right, and his son Robert, on their rounds.