A man, believed to be the Royal Mail lorry driver is heard saying: "Oh f**king hell," when alerted by a road user in Sheffield to the back of the lorry being wide open
A ROYAL Mail lorry was spotted with its back doors open and parcels hanging out on a busy city roundabout.
The driver was only alerted to his precarious position by a passing motorist, who shouted that "about five" parcels had already fallen out while he was at the roundabout in Sheffield.
Posting on social media, Peter Moff said: "This is why all your parcels go missing with Parcelforce."
Parcelforce is a trading name of Royal Mail Group Ltd., and is organised within the UK Parcels, International and Letters division of the group.
He added: "[It's a] Royal Mail lorry with all the parcels hanging out the back."
Pulling up alongside the driver, he then shouts: "Your back's open! About five parcels have fallen out!"
A man, believed to be the Royal Mail lorry driver is then heard saying: "Oh f**king hell."
The clip, posted on social media captioned "No wonder Royal Mail lose so much parcels", has received 37,000 views and has been shared almost 400 times.
A Royal Mail spokesperson said: “Royal Mail is very sorry for any distress this incident may have caused members of the public.
"We regularly remind our drivers about driving safely and observing the rules of the road when out delivering or collecting mail."
The spokesperson added: "At the same time, the security of mail is of paramount importance to Royal Mail.
"We take all such incidents extremely seriously, and we will be investigating this as a matter of urgency.";
Earlier this month, Royal Mail came under fire after a great-grandmother's Mother's Day card was scrawled on by staff at a sorting depot.
Devastated Dorothy Hopkins, 85, from Woodley in Berkshire, received the card in the post from her loving daughter Mandy but was horrified when she sat down and opened it up.
Sick pranksters scrawled vile abuse in black pen including the words "wh**e" and "b***h" and replaced Mandy's loving message with "hate you lots".
The vile messages were signed off from the "loving sorting office".
In response to the incident, a Royal Mail spokesperson said they were sending a representative to apologise in person and would "urgently investigate" the matter.
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