Mum fuming after Royal Mail postman's sexist warning to her husband

[POSTMAN]

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/u ... t-21715779

The furious mum explained her husband was also "quite cross" after the "completely inappropriate" comment as he collected a parcel for her at their door

An annoyed mum has shared her anger after a Royal Mail postman told her husband she was 'spending his money'.

The fuming mum explained her husband was "quite cross" after the "completely inappropriate" comment as he collected a parcel for her at their door.


She said she had paid for the parcel - which was Christmas presents - and resented the fact the postman had assumed her husband was the breadwinner.

She took to parenting forum mumsnet to ask if she was being unreasonable to be annoyed.

The post from VitalsStable read: "I know not a huge issue in the grand scheme of things but just had a parcel delivered. DH opened door as I was busy heeding the call of nature.

"The delivery man handed over the parcel to my husband and then mentioned in a strange voice that it had my name on it and he needed warning that I'm spending his money.

"DH was a bit WTF and didn't say anything but was quite cross when he shut the door and said it was completely inappropriate.

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"The delivery was Christmas presents which I actually paid for from money I earned and although DH is the higher earner in our household the bloody Royal Mail guy wasn't aware of that.

"DH could have been my brother, a SAHD or had bought something on an account with my name on, I could be the higher earner and DH could be blowing my hard earned cash on frivolities.

"Gggrrrr, sad that this idea of women still prevails in 2021."

Other users rushed to comment on the post and weren't impressed with the out-of-date comment.

Strawbsaturno said: "This happened to me as well!!! He Handed the parcel over to DH, winked and said ‘she’s spending your money again mate!’ I was livid… I work FT and pay for my own bloody stuff."

Goawayaclg added: "Absolutely not overthinking. Unless we start overthinking a bit, this crap will never stop. It permeates the minds of the children of people who say this stuff. It needs to be addressed."

Ivy48 agreed: "Oh god this has happened a few times recently! I think as I’m WFH they think I’ve no money of my own and spending his. I was infuriated too! Annoying thing is half the items were bits he’d asked me to order for him! Beside the point anyway, no one should comment on what you’re spending unless it impacts them directly. Also so sexist I was annoyed."

But others said the mum should take the comment as a joke.

ItsNotMeAnymore wrote: "This wouldn’t bother me, it’s mildly annoying but just a joke."

[POSTMAN]

Mumsnet thread here...
https://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being ... -his-money

This thread has 379 messages
Where'd they find the time, is the housework still getting done?

[wazer]

He also said good morning and it was afternoon.

[midegarelu]

WTF is DH, WFH and SAHD?

[TrueBlueTerrier]

WTF is DH, WFH and SAHD?

DH = Dear Husband
WFH = Working From home
SAHD = Stay at Home Daughter

HWSBO is a member of Mumsnet.

Her Who Should be Obeyed

[midegarelu]

Thanks for that TBT, have trouble keeping up with all these acronyms.

[blue1873]

Sounds to me someone needs a humour transplant, the husband can't see the funny side of the
remark, no doubt they'll belong to that modern day group of "Easily Offended looking to be more
Offended "so they can make a complaint . :

[WASD]

"breadwinner"

I'm sending my email of complaint to Birminghamfail as I type. How can such archaic insulting terminology be used to describe a working person in this day and age.




The thing with stereotyping is, it generally is true, otherwise the label would have died off already.

[ebbzie]

Mumsnet thread here...
https://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being ... -his-money

This thread has 379 messages
Where'd they find the time, is the housework still getting done?

Ha Ha Brilliant

[glenfiddich]

its usually the other way round for me hubby comes to door moaning that she's been spending again or its only got my name on as she's used my PayPal it seems like some people are only happy when they're moaning

[NWpostie]

First World problems

[Woody Guthrie]

Gggrrrr

There's a lot of anger on Mumsnet about almost every topic you could imagine.

It's not a place for the fainthearted especially if you're a man.
Had the Romans come up with it as a form of entertainment Marcus Aurelius would probably have said that's a bit extreme mate.

[tomtallis]

breadwinner

As I coeliac I am offended by the intolerance to the gluten-intolerant

[Wolf91]

Oh the irony. Too much time to get offended and put it on momsarebored.net.
Get a life.

[ted_e_bear]

Oh dear, imagine how these people would feel if we were permitted to say what we really thought...some I've encountered would have been less offended at a Frankie Boyle gig.