A Melville councillor said she felt 'sick and targeted' when she found an obscene letter stuffed into her home letterbox on Monday morning.

Councillor Patricia Phelan was checking her mail when she came across three sheets of A4 paper bundled together.

She was horrified when she saw what was written in large, typed letters:

"SUCK MY C--K YOU LIBERAL MAGGOT SCUM. HA HA. F--KING LOSERS."