I'm a fit 52 year old and have applied many times for the Royal Mail. In the past I struggled to pass the online assessment tasks, and was informed so by the Royal Mail. More recently however my 'failures' have been down to, "unforeseen circumstances this vacancy has now been withdrawn". On the Royal Mail website however, it states, "Sorry, this position has been filled". This has happened on my last two applications. Once a coincidence, twice something more sinister. I can interpret this as I'm too old to be a postman but the Royal Mail don't want to incriminate themselves by saying so.