THE Royal Mail is encouraging missing people to get in touch this Christmas.

It has created a new freepost address ‘Freepost Missing People’ to help missing people make contact with loved ones.

The new system is a simple way for people to send a message, with the option of doing so without the possibility of being traced.

To mark the one-year anniversary of its partnership with the charity Missing People, it is also contributing £50,000 to fund the Child Rescue Alert system.