1:52am Saturday 24th April 2004
POST boxes in Wanstead were sealed after a set of keys was stolen from Royal Mail.
Jacqueline Peet rang the Guardian to complain that post boxes in Overton Drive, Redbridge Lane West and outside Wanstead Tube Station had been blocked for up to five weeks.
She said: "It is ludicrous that we have to go somewhere far away just to post a letter. I rang the post office who told me the keys had been stolen."
A Royal Mail spokesman confirmed the post boxes had been sealed after a set of keys was stolen and apologised for any inconvenience caused to customers.
All post boxes should have been reopened by today.
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