Royal Mail has revealed that only two other post code areas in the the UK are worse than Swansea for meeting the target for delivering firstclasspost by noon next day.
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But in response, a Royal Mail spokesman told the BBC that any suggestion that the second classpost was more efficient than the first was "completely incorrect".