Post Office ditches Golly dolls after customers complained they were ‘offensive’

A POST office has been forced to pull golliwog dolls off their shelves after being slammed by angry customers.

The seaside branch at Abergele, North Wales, was spotted selling the controversial toys next to the other fluffy toys.

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Hannah Prosser posted a photo of the dolls being sold and said she was disappointed that they were on the shelves.

The 24-year-old wrote: "Always thought the sale of Gollywogs was frowned upon. Dissapointed in Post Office Abergele branch. Shame on you."

But a manager denied the soft toys were golliwogs.

She said: "We buy them in. They are definitely not golliwogs. They are gollies.

";We were assued they were not offensive and we never intended them to be offensive.

"If it has offended somebody, we will be happy to withdraw them."

She later confirmed the dolls had been taken off the shelves.

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A Post Office spokesperson said: "We understand that the dolls have been permanently withdrawn from sale in this shop."

The Golly was most notably the mascot of Robertson's jam jars after its founder visited the US and noticed young children playing with black rag dolls supposedly made from their mothers' skirts.

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James Robertson decided to make the toys the face for his range of products in 1910 with the cartoon soon becoming collector items.

But the golliwog was retired in 2002 with the company saying the decision had not been made due to the "political correctness" debate over the toys.

The toys were also extensively used in child author Enid Blyton's books.

But by the 1980s it was increasingly seen as an offensive caricature towards people of African descent and Robertsons dropped it in 2001.

An Enid Blyton memorabilia shop was recently booted from a window dressing competition for using golliwogs in their display.

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