article_snippet: Royal Mail will only bring post to the 100 flats on three days a week – instead of the usual six – and even then, will only deliver through letterboxes if a 69-year-old female councillor is stood at the postman’s side.
article_snippet: a 69-year-old female councillor is stood at the postman
article_snippet: A postman begins A postman round near Waterloo while elderly residents stand and guard A postman delivery van .
article_snippet: Councillor Maria Linforth-Hall, 69, escorts the postman around the building after Royal Mail refused to make deliveries at the block of flats .
article_snippet: Now every Monday, Wednesday and Friday a band of pensioners waits outside to ‘police’ the deliveries.
highlights_snippet: Even then Royal Mail'll only deliver if 69-year-old female councillor is with Royal Mail .
  