{"id":699319,"date":"2026-07-19T02:16:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T02:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/699319\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T02:16:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T02:16:22","slug":"royal-mail-to-replace-woolley-village-postbox-after-thefts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/699319\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Mail to replace Woolley village postbox after thefts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A rural village is set to regain a postbox after months of having to travel two miles to send letters due to thieves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two boxes were stolen in Woolley in March, with Royal Mail set to replace the postbox on The Green next week. However, it has yet to give a timeline for replacing a second stolen box on Barnsley Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jade Botterill, MP for Ossett and Denby Dale, had previously been told it would take 12-16 weeks for the boxes to be replaced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Rural residents deserve a postal service they can rely on, so the initial timeline set out by Royal Mail was totally unacceptable,&#8221; the Labour MP said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is a huge win for Woolley residents and shows what happens when our community stands together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Woolley resident Richard Dixon previously said he had made multiple requests for the boxes to be replaced since reporting them missing on 8 March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is a rural community with a lot of elderly people who rely heavily on the service,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is a disgrace that people have been left without a postbox for so long.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rural village is set to regain a postbox after months of having to travel two miles to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-699319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}