POSTIES in East Renfrewshire have been praised for delivering a top-class service.

Royal Mail boss Rob Jenson heaped praise on local postmen and women after they exceeded their regulatory first class mail target in the past year.

The target for next day deliveries is 93 per cent but local posties managed to exceed that by a narrow margin - half a per cent.

The results were published in the latest Royal Mail Quality of Service report.

Mr Jenson said: “We are very proud of the service we offer our customers. Our postmen and women deliver to some of the most challenging performance targets in Europe.

“I would like to thank all our people for their great efforts throughout the year.

“We are committed to maintaining and improving these high standards of service for all our customers.”

Royal Mail’s quality of service is measured by TNS Global, an independent market research company.