The Posties and Snappy Letterboxes –

New Homes a Scourge of Postpersons’ Fingers

Now the postie is everyone’s friend, he or she brings us letters and parcels and who doesn’t love a missive or a packet? In rural areas they can be a lifeline to the outside world, although at the moment a spot of isolation may be thought a golden thing. And as I write not all is right with the world at all.  I remember when I was a Christmas postie back in the day, the worst thing back then was dogs. It wasn’t a very posh area to say the least and so lots of houses kept a dog that would scare away tallymen or bill collectors. On my first day I was given a half a snooker cue loaded with lead and told that was for dogs. I almost left on the spot, but thinking it was a wind up I carried on. There was a dog called Bimbo in the well named Bark Road that was hugely ferocious. I had to use the postie’s bike as a shield to get to the front door and then fling the letters at the letterbox.  I expect Bimbo’s owners must have thought nobody ever wrote to them. Lots of other houses had dogs that went for your fingers as you pushed the letters through, if they missed you the canine’s then shredded the letters in frustration.

No Post Today the Posties Gone Away

Now the Royal Mail has halted deliveries to homes in a new housing development – because of dangerous letterboxes. No dogs are mentioned at all. It seems that the posties have got their fingers caught and grazed in letterboxes fitted with anti-burglar hoods at new homes in Inverurie, Aberdeenshire. These letterboxes are designed to stop thieves fishing for keys through the slot. Now Royal Mail has said any home with the offending letterbox will be blacklisted and not delivered to.  The suspension of service is a result of a row between the delivery firm and the new homes builder, a national firm. The letterbox guards were fitted to stop thieves fishing for keys through the door but postal workers have complained of cut fingers and grazed knuckles. They haven’t got a Bimbo on their rounds I hope. To get round the ban some residents have already removed or altered their letterboxes, but those who haven’t either have to collect post from the Royal Mail  sorting office in Inverurie or set up deliveries to an alternative address with the extra expense of that.

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