PINT-SIZED Luke Molyneux is so obsessed with the Royal Mail that he is already dreaming of a career as a postman.

Luke, aged four, and his sister Hannah, aged seven, spend much of their spare time in the post office near their home in Harwood.

And Hannah, a pupil at St Maxentius Primary School in Bradshaw, wrote to post service bosses on behalf of her brother asking if he could borrow the keys to the postbox so that he could deliver some letters near his home.

Mum, Karen, had no idea that her daughter had put pen to paper and was amazed when a letter arrived on her doorstep addressed to her daughter from the Royal Mail.

She said: "There's always a fight in our house between Luke and Hannah about who is opening the letters."

The Royal Mail letter was from a customer advisor, called Mrs Theresa Moan.

Mrs Moan wrote: "I am sorry to tell you that we cannot give your brother the key to the post office because the real post man needs it."

"When you are grown up, you might want to be a postman and then you will be given a key to a lot of post boxes so that you can collect everybody's mail too."

The Royal Mail also sent Hannah and Luke a book of stamps so that they could send letters to their friends.