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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Beth Lindop

‘Angel on earth’ postie who’s been brightening people’s day for 20 years

A Merseyside postie has been dubbed an “angel on earth” after her random acts of kindness have helped to brighten people’s lives.

Colette Whitby, 50, has been serving the people of Ellesmere Port for the past two decades and has garnered a reputation for having “the biggest of hearts” as she unfailingly goes above and beyond to support members of the local community. On Sunday, July 3, Lisa Fielding went to pick up a parcel from the Ellesmere Port Royal Mail depot. Lisa, 45, had been having a bad day, but Colette’s kind words and actions “totally reset” her for the day.

Lisa told the ECHO: “I walked in looking a bit dishevelled and mum-like. She asked me if I was okay, and when I told her I was fine, she said: ‘Are you sure? You don’t look it’.

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