{"id":795850,"date":"2026-10-08T10:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T10:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/795850\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T10:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T10:56:09","slug":"stolen-royal-mail-post-items-found-at-bury-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/795850\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Stolen&#8217; Royal Mail post items found at Bury property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Royal Mail has confirmed that between 10,000 and 11,000 postal items were recovered by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.burytimes.co.uk\/topics\/greater-manchester-police-gmp\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">police<\/a> following an arrest earlier this year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The huge haul of mail is now being painstakingly sorted by hand before being sent on to addresses across the country.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The find was made at a property in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.burytimes.co.uk\/news\/bury_news\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bury<\/a>, with Royal Mail confirming that the person involved is no longer employed by the business.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The scale of the operation means it could take considerable time before every item is returned to the postal system.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Each piece of mail must first be sorted into delivery areas and matched with a covering letter explaining the circumstances of the delay.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Some of the recovered post was also found to have been damaged and is being dealt with separately.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The discovery has sparked questions about how such a large quantity of undelivered mail came to be stored at a single property, with thousands of letters and other postal items now being processed after being recovered by police.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.burytimes.co.uk\/topics\/royal-mail-\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Royal Mail<\/a> says its teams are focused on ensuring the recovered items are returned to their rightful recipients wherever possible.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A Royal Mail spokesperson said: \u201cWe take the security of mail very seriously.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cFollowing an arrest earlier this year, police found a quantity of mail at a property.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cOur teams have been working to recover and process the items so they can be returned to the postal network and delivered to customers.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The postal service confirmed it was made aware that police had recovered between 10,000 and 11,000 items following an arrest in the summer.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The mail is currently being sorted by delivery area, with every item requiring manual handling before it can be delivered.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Greater Manchester Police has been approached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Royal Mail has confirmed that between 10,000 and 11,000 postal items were recovered by police following an arrest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-795850","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\/795850","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=795850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}