Fabulous news. And as my 14year old son just wisely commented... "Not only is Dave staying but a second lovely postman means there'll be double the chat and support for some of the lonely or housebound residents..." Perfect all round.

We value the continuity and good service provided by our current postman, Dave, and would not be happy to see him replaced due to a organisational restructure.

This is a difficult rural round to deal with which Dave has done excellently and he should be retained purely on that basis let alone his friendly and helpful to us the local Royal Mail customers. Why bring in someone totally unfamiliar with this round?!

Dave is the best postman we've had. He never gets my post mixed up with my neighbour's (even though my neighbour lives on the same street, and our houses have the same name!). He was always so kind to my dog as well. He is like a neighbour himself. That's why I think Dave is an asset to our community.

From Tunstall. A really nice guy and always smiling and helpful. He applies common sense and as he knows us and our family structures he deals with all deliveries with sense. Why move him. This disease of moving someone as soon as they know their patch is out dated and ridiculous.

Dave he is our local posty, And our village residents he knows the mosty, With letters in hand he walks the miles, And on delivery he always smiles, Come rain or shine you know he'll be there, Because he takes that extra care, The is no more that we can say, Than please let our posty stay!

He's all you could want in a postman and he knows the round and the locals. Why would they not let him keep this round??

save our dave!