Postal workers get through two million red rubber bands per day, the Royal Mail has revealed. In the past five years, the organisation has spent almost £5m on four billion bands which are used to ...

There’s probably nothing more ho-hum than a rubber band ... you don’t want the bands sloshing around loose (they can get caught in the machine’s drain or moving parts).

Royal Mail uses 342 million red rubber bands annually and introduced them in 2004. Spokesman Nick Martens said: "Royal Mail regularly stresses to its postmen and women the importance of avoiding ...