THERE is anger in Portsmouth - now that all mail for the city comes with a Southampton post mark.

The Royal Mail's sorting office at Southampton Airport is now handling all post for the Portsmouth area, after the sorting office in the centre of the city closed down.

The MP for Portsmouth South, Flick Drummond, said she was going to try and do something to restore Portsmouth's post mark.

She said: "I want my letter to come from Portsmouth, not Southampton.

"‘I’m very disappointed because it’s important that people know where their post is coming from – and Portsmouth isn’t Southampton. I will look into it to see what can be done."

A spokesman for Royal Mail said: "Mail posted from PO postcode areas is now processed at Southampton Mail Centre.

"We recognise the concern some customers may have at the change of postmark and we are working on design and implementation of a new postmark appropriate to the Portsmouth area which reflects the recent changes to our mail processing operations.

"First and foremost, any changes Royal Mail makes to its operations are designed to ensure that customers receive their mail as efficiently and quickly as possible."

The PO post code area stretches from Fareham in the west to Bognor Regis in the East, and also takes in the Isle of Wight and goes as far north as Horndean.

The Southampton-focused SO area meanwhile, goes from Lymington in the South to Micheldever in the north, and from Fareham to Lyndhurst when going east to west.