Cllr Roy Gerstner – Community Activist

Parcel Delivery scams

Online shopping has increased and therefore the use of couriers and mail carriers in order to deliver packages has also increased.

This has given an opportunity for scammers to send emails and texts pretending to be from well known courier companies asking for money as the postage price has not been paid, or for duty on items inside. You pay the duty or shortfall and no parcel arrives.

Most mail and courier companies will not collect the parcel if their is an outstanding amount on the postage cost. And for items with duty, you will probably, receive an invoice through the post asking you to pay, before they even try to deliver. In this case it will have the items details on the invoice and you will know you ordered it.

So our advice is, even if you are expecting a parcel and receive a message to say the postage is wrong, ignore it, at the very worst the parcel will be returned to sender, and you will email the company asking where your parcel is and they will resend, but you will probably find that despite ignoring the message, you receive your parcel any way, and there will not be a shortfall on the postage.

Have you seen that Cambs Police via their website under the neighbourhood policing button invite us to report ‘ Community Concerns – Tell us what concerns you most in your area? ‘ You don’t have to give your name or any contact details on the report.

https://www.cambs.police.uk – Report Here

Some 5 months now since the fire at the ‘Ottermans’ take-away Broad Street/Market Street.
The issues of road closure/traffic control is carried out by Cambs CC Highways.
The building is at this moment still deemed unsafe and thats why the barriers are still in place.
The barriers do not belong to FDC or CCC but by someone called Humphries.
I can assure everyone, that Fenland Councillors have and on the case regularly.
Below is an update we received later yesterday (Tuesday).
I have made phone calls todays and there at this moment nothing further to add.

The Highways Supervisor has today been advised by CNC building control that providing the owners remove the rubble from the roof and check their boarding is secure, CNC will be happy for the traffic management to be removed and the path opened.  There will be a further update tomorrow and of course this is down to the owners doing what is necessary.

CNC provides the building control functions for the Local Authority areas of South Norfolk, King’s Lynn and West Norfolk, Fenland, Norwich City and Broadland. Building Control is a statutory requirement on the vast majority of building projects (including internal alterations and conversion works) irrespective of whether planning permission has been required or not.