Royal Mail investigating claims that postal worker ‘binned Reform UK election leaflets’

The message was shared to the Facebook group Royal Mail Chat. It is unknown which part of the UK it involved. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

Royal Mail is investigating allegations that a postal worker claimed to have “dumped” Reform UK campaign leaflets in a bin ahead of local elections on 7 May.

A post on a Facebook group for Royal Mail staff said: “My DO had reform party’s D2D today. I dumped them all in a bin. They can sack me! Idgaf!”