An employee at the Royal Mail's Northampton sorting office received a police escort home after turning up for work wearing non-Royal Mail blue shorts. When asked to take unpaid time go home and change into his 'official' shorts, the man refused, so his managers called in the police to escort him from the premises.

A police spokesman confirmed that they had received a call to deal with a Royal Mail employee who was behaving in a disruptive manner.

And the reason the postman wasn't wearing his Royal Mail shorts? The Royal Mail hadn't actually given him any! They have, apparently, now issued him with £30 to buy himself a pair of blue shorts; of course, they won't be Royal Mail issue because you can't buy those in the shops.

Metro