VILLAGERS wanting to post a letter in Turville face a curious problem -- someone keeps moving the postbox.

The box stood on the same site for 50 years before the Royal Mail decided to move it onto the village green.

One Turville resident was so incensed he tore it up and planted it back on its former telegraph pole home.

Now the Royal Mail said that it will be moved again to a permanent site.

The village has seen many curious goings-on as the home of TV comedy series The Vicar of Dibley, and village vicar the Rev Paul Nicolson agreed the 'goings-on' would have made a good Dibley plot.

"It's a very nice village green with nothing on it at all. To put a postbox on it on a stick was quite, quite, ridiculous. It is beautifully absurd. I would like to thank the Royal Mail for entertaining us."

Nick Abbott, landlord of the Bull & Butcher pub noticed two men digging a hole in the green: "It turns out British Telecom has come to the conclusion it does not want boxes on the poles. That's lunacy."

Mr Abbott said the box was moved by an unknown villager on Wednesday night:

A Royal Mail spokesman said: "Any decision about where to put it would be based on security and ease of access. It was temporarily put up on the village green but will be moved to a permanent site."

BT was unavailable for comment.

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