OBSERVANT passers-by may have spotted some Bexley posties wheeling more than the post around Bexley.

Hitching a ride was Bertie Bear who is on an 80-day journey around the south east to raise cash for the children’s charity Barnardo’s.

Bertie started off at Gatwick on June 21 and last week he reached Bexley, where he was wheeled from the Bexleyheath delivery office in Glengall Road, to the Belvedere office in Sheridan Road, collecting cash for the charity on his way.

Posties at Bexleyheath also held a cake sale and raffle with prizes donated by Welling’s Morrisons store and Bexleyheath Megabowl.