THE full scale of the scandal of missing post can be revealed today.

The Daily Echo has been inundated with calls from local people after our story of Tallulah Halls whose granddad had sent her £50 as a birthday treat, and it had been taken from the envelope by the time the card reached her.

Royal Mail received 3,770 complaints of loss in the BH postcode area in 2010/2011, according to figures obtained by Daily Echo.

From those complaints, 3,137 were paid compensation, totalling £57,528, meaning that over 600 were left out of pocket.

We received an overwhelming response.

Helen Burgess, 25, from Kinson, discovered that one of her daughter’s birthday cards had already been opened before delivery last weekend.

She said: “It was my daughter, Madison’s sixth birthday last Sunday, and I was putting together all the birthday cards the day before when I noticed that one looked a bit different.

She added: “I turned it over and saw that the back had already been opened and the £10 money that my cousin always sends her had been taken.

“My cousin is really poorly with cancer at the moment and so it would have taken a lot for her to go out of the house and to the post box.

“I had to explain to Madison why she couldn’t have the contents of the birthday card.

“To some it may only seem like £10 but to a little girl it’s a lot of money and it’s the principle of it.

“Someone opening the card would have seen that it was pink, glittery and decorated for a six-year-old, before they took the money out and sent the card on.

They knew what they were doing.”