London Royal Mail postman slams 'pain in the a***e' Christmas bows on doors

[TrueBlueTerrier]

https://www.mylondon.news/news/local-ne ... s-19384716

Christmas is always a busy time for delivery services, with postmen clocking thousands of steps per day.

However, their workload is extra intense this year as more people order festive gifts and household items to their home addresses.

While lots of postmen are pleased to provide an essential service and happy to have a job in this climate, some have expressed frustrations about delivering packages in London - especially when it comes to decorations.

One Royal Mail worker, who wanted to remain anonymous, told MyLondon that festive door bows are particularly hard to deal with.

The employee who has worked at the company for more than five years said: "Those big bows over the letterboxes can be a pain in the a***.

"They cover the letterboxes but still expect us to get their letters though.

"Do they want deliveries or not?"

He also revealed that he has been shouted at on more than one occasion for moving the decoration aside.

He now knocks to post letters at these addresses and said it is adding more minutes to his delivery route.

"One idiot shouted at me down the road after I moved it to the side to get the letters through. He said I had torn a bit," he added.
Wreaths have also caused a problem (Image: Shared Content Unit)

"These bell***s put them up, order lots of things and then have a go at us if they are touched."

While he is not totally against decorations, he said his job would be much easier if people thought more carefully about placement and logistics.

"I get why people want them, just don't put them up and shout at us - you know what I mean!"

"Or better yet, get ones that don't block the letterbox."

Another postman also said he has struggled with festive front doors but it wasn't the bows that troubled him.

He commented: "Those bow things can be a bit annoying but I've kind of gotten used to them now.

[POSTMAN]

The general public = stupid.

[fb1969]

Bow across the letter box = no access = Return To Sender.

[grchpo]

No way am I going to knock & wait for them to open door, if you can't post take them back & tell manager, let him sort it, although he would probably send a letter

[twoloops]

Mark no access & kill it off, I did have a wreath attached to the knocker that I accidentally knocked off & trod on it

[goldy]

don't touch it just return mail.. On a more serious note customers being customers just don't think!!
I hit a solid glass and lead lantern outside a customers door and it nearly knocked me unconscious. Manager was like "oh all the paperwork". I had to fight to put it in the log book and get a proper written warning to the customer.The only reason I struck it was they had stuck their car in an awkward position making access difficult.

[twoloops]

It amazes me how many with low level letterboxes leave their shoes, pushchairs & bags up against the other side of the letterbox, with total disregard to the postman

[Marshamp11]

Return marked Inaccessible.

[Mr Rush]

Same problem with those Halloween plastic covers on the doors without a cut-out for access to the letterbox, but at least those are only up for a few days at most (aside from those people who think Halloween is the whole of October). The complete lack of consideration is more annoying than the damn decoration.