CHRISTMAS has come early for a Gourock woman who has finally received her festive lights after a delay of more than two weeks.

Christine Morrison feared the parcel had been stolen from the Kempock Street branch when Post Office staff failed to find the delivery after searching the then-closed branch last week.

She said: “The parcel contained decorative lights you can use all year round but I wanted them for Christmas. I’m over the moon I’ve got them.” The post office finally re-opened last Wednesday, but bosses at Knowe Road sorting office in Greenock managed to retrieve the parcel from the premises the night before – and said they would have personally delivered the item that night if the lady at been at home.

Christine, 59, of Albert Road, said: “I want to thank the manager at Knowe Road as he arranged with Post Office Counters to let him go down to the post office to collect it and he left a telephone message that it had been there all the time.” But she is furious with the way she has been treated by Post Office Counters.

She said: “It’s really horrendous. I’ve had not one hint of a phone call, no explanation or an apology over why a parcel that was handed into the post office by the postman on 21 October at 1pm couldn’t be collected that afternoon, or after it closed the next day.

“For more than two weeks it’s been lying in the post office at the end of the street where I live.”