NEWTON Abbot postmen are delivering up a weight losing campaign to burn off those unwanted extra pounds put on from the over indulgences of too many Christmas goodies.
Some 20 posties, office workers and managers, out of the 150 staff at the Newton Abbot Royal Mail Delivery Office, have weighed in for two months of dieting.
A couple of them touch the scales at 18 stones and the weights range down to 10 stones. Their weights will be checked weekly to see how they are faring up to the finishing date at the end of February.
The two months friendly competition to see who can lose the most unwanted flab will also result in a contribution to charity from their colleagues.
Organisers, postman Steve Moon and PHG Colin Uglow, said it was all a good bit of fun with a serious side to be more healthy and keep up to speed after the Christmas festivities.
They are, in fact, franking the government's newly-launched Healthy Living Campaign to tackle Britain's soaring obesity.
And tongue in cheek – they could be speeding up following the news in the national press that Royal Mail want posties to up their speed to 4mph on delivery routes, evidently having worked it out on a computerised system penned from Canadian refuse collections.