Postal Scam:

The following has reported been confirmed by Royal Mail. The Trading Standards Office are making people aware of the following scam:

A card is posted through your door from a company called PDS (Parcel Delivery Service) suggesting that they were unable to deliver a parcel and that you need to contact them on 0906 6611911 (a Premium rate number).

Do not call this number, as this is a mail scam originating from Belize .

If you call the number and you start to hear a recorded message you will already have been billed £315 for the phone call. If you do receive a card with these details, then please contact Royal Mail Fraud on (44) 020 7239 6655.

(Note: we received this via Internet and cannot vouch for its veracity. We feel, however, that we should let the readers decide for themselves whether to heed this warning.