Mail Delivery Question

[Caropooh]

I'm from the USA but my DD7 has a question for all of you in the UK. Since you drive on the other side of the road from us, how do you get your mail delivered? Do your mail carriers drive on the left side of the vehicle? In the US, our mail carriers drive on the right side of the truck so they can reach out the window and put the mail in the boxes on the side of the road. Is that what yours do too? I'm not sure what made her think of this, but she is always coming up with things like this!

 

[gilld]

Our postmen (the guys who deliver our mail) deliver it all by on foot or bicycle, carrying a very large bag. Very few homes here, have a freestanding mail box, most homes have a letterbox in their front door.

 

[Dimplenose]

Most houses here don't have US style mail boxes, we have letter boxes in the front door (a slit with a special cover). The post men/women walk to the front door and push the letters through. They carry the mail between houses on push bikes in towns or in vans in less built up areas.

Libby

 

[wils]

Don't you just love kids!

We don't have mail boxes in the same way you do. Instead we generally have a slit in our front door when the postman puts the letters. Ours parks his car opposite, walks down the road to all the houses and then back up via the houses on the other side. If the letter is too big he'll ring the doorbell and, if no one is in he'll take it back to the office. Any huge parcels are delivered by a seperate van.

Here's our letter box from the inside and, yes the post did come through just after the photo was taken and nearly land on the baby's head!

 

[Lizzy Lemon]

My DH is one of those guys who deliver the mail and he walks miles everyday carrying very heavy bags. Funnily enough he got talking a few weeks ago to a couple from the USA and they were amazed at seeing someone actually posting the mail actually in the house!!!

 

[Cyrano]

Interesting to see the difference in something as ordinary as delivery mail.
Don't you just love the way kids minds work

 

[aaronandterri]

hi
I WAS READING THIS AND THOUGHT IT WAS REARLY CUTE, i remember my own daughter commenting on how unsafe peoples mail in the us was a s anyone could open there box.
i love the way kids minds work, the other day i over heard my son telling his friends that i ring up and order the ice cream truck to come round(like the same way you do pizza), when the relity is he just drives about with a tune playing to let us know hes there
very cute, and logical i suppose x

 

[Goofyish]

Our daily newspapers are also pushed throught the 'letterbox' in our front doors - not thrown at the front porch like I've seen in US TV and films

 

[Richard Bruvofetc]

....and we still have milk delivered by the milkman (though he doesn't push it throughthe letterbox ).

 

[aaronandterri]

yep my milkman even delivers eggs and bacon on saturdays x( now that would make a mess through the letterbox!) he just leaves them on the doorstep x

 

[Dimplenose]

If the letter is too big he'll ring the doorbell and, if no one is in he'll take it back to the office.

.... or leave in on our front door step in full view of passers by until DH or I get home from work.


Libby

P.S. Don't even get me started about the way non Royal Mail carriers hide my packages behind the dustbin, under the car etc.

 

[Frances999]

P.S. Don't even get me started about the way non Royal Mail carriers hide my packages behind the dustbin, under the car etc.

This really annoys me too. I would actually prefer them to take it back to the depot and re-deliver at an alternative time. We have a letter-box on the wall beside our gates, and any letters/parcels too big to fit get left just sitting on the ground!

 

[mtemm]

Our daily newspapers are also pushed throught the 'letterbox' in our front doors - not thrown at the front porch like I've seen in US TV and films

Ha! I only wish the newspapers made it to the front porch. Usually they are at the end of the driveway.

now milk delivery, that is something I wish we had around here.

 

[Caropooh]

DD7 says THANK YOU!!!! We do have some houses with mail slots in the front door, but most have either the box out near the street or by the front door.
Wils, we loved that you took the picture so she could see it!(loved the babys outfit too!) Glad the baby wasn't hit by the mail!
We do still have some dairys that will deliver milk and other dairy products to the house. In fact, the biggest one around is very close to us.
How did we ever find out things for our inquisitive kids before the DIS was around??
Thanks again!!

 

[wils]

Wils, we loved that you took the picture so she could see it!(loved the babys outfit too!) Glad the baby wasn't hit by the mail!

No problem

Don't even get me started about the way non Royal Mail carriers hide my packages behind the dustbin, under the car etc.

I remember when the inlaws had their conservatory built - the courier hid the plans IN the dustbin. Funily enough the bin-men did not check the wheeliebin for post before emptying it!

 

[KayleeUK]

Jo

Cute picture

 

[wifey]

Hello I just want to add many postmen and women work long hours here and delivery is all dependant on where you live, for example if you live on a farm with a long driveway your post person may leave your mail at the gateway in the box provided by you, if you live in a town house then the post will be put through the letterbox in your door or you may get a knock if it needs signing for or it is too big to go through, if there's no answer then a special card is left with details of how to contact us for collection or re-delivery. I have been a postwoman for 15 years and DH has just done 20 years service and is still going. The big bags are not as bad as they used to be but it is still a very physically demanding job and the staff on the "rounds" deserve a bit of recognition for a job well done, our own office delivers over 180,000 items a day and many thousands more at Christmas