to expect the paper to be shoved all the way through the letter box?

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Local free paper was delivered today. I like getting this, and I am very pleased to get it as for quite a while someone was being paid to bring it and we never got it.....but why can't he put it all the way through? I worry that if we're away it just draws attention to the fact, and highlights it to burglars. It was an elderly man, and the older generation are often more careful of this sort of thing, so I was a bit suprised! I have now put a polite note on the door. Probably won't make any difference...

what the what now?

What does the note say?

they tell them not to push them all the way through because the paper then falls apart when they hit the ground. and people complain about having a messy newspaper.

Err, please can you shove the papers etc all the way through. Thank you. Seems reasonable to me....
Mofes, are you having a sense of humour failure today?

Mmm thing is that other people will complain about having to bend down and pick it up.

You really left him a note ?

But what if you had a bad back and it hurt to pick it up from the floor ? Maybe that is why he only puts it half way through

Presumably people then get those cages which attach to the letter box.

Those cages are to stop the dogs eating the paper
Have you a nice roomy box for him to post it through?

Because when I was a papergirl some of the boxes were tiny and used to rip the papers to shreds.

Not all letterboxes are big enough to fit newspapers through.

I, on the other hand, have a lovely BIG box.......

My postie does this with the mail. If DH catches her doing it (it's never me that clocks her) he goes out and asks her to put it through properly - then for weeks she'll manage to get it all the way through before something magically stops the mail halfway through the door again. She's especially good at doing it if we go to visit DH's parents, so our post is left flapping in the breeze all weekend

Do you have a dog that barks and jumps up when someone is at the door?

I only ask as when i had a paper round i got a complaint from a certain house who had a barking dog, and every time i delivered the paper it would go crazy and snarley. They were snotty bastards this family and were quite nasty when i said i'd rather not. But seeing as it was my first job and i was terrified of getting sacked i obliged.

I would only put the paper in half way as i was scared of being bitten, but the day after i got the complaint that their paper wasn't pushed in all the way (so that it fell through the other side of their MASSIVE letter box) i braved it and pushed it on through... Only to get bitten by the dog when i put my hand in.
Blood everywhere, Dad went crazy and we went up to their house afterwards to explain why their door, doorstep, driveway and delivery girl were covered in blood. They werent so fucking smarmy then i can tell you.

You never know whats on the other side of that bloody door. So don't assume he is doing it just to be a wanker ;)

No big, or small dog, only me....

Haha, well as long as you don't bite! Will have to see if he keeps doing it, but to be honest it can be really grating, trying to please everyone on the route with their different requests as to how to treat a newspaper.

But then again i hate seeing things peeking through my letter bvox. Its a catch 22.

I am quite scary though.....

my dcs got told to push the papers all the way through - i have helped dd once on a saturday when she needed to go out early, and omg some of the letterboxes are a nightmare! You have to virtually totally dissect the paper with supplements to get it through piece by piece! And if there is a free book in there...

Is your letter box person friendly? Or does it snap the fingers off anyone putting stuff through the letter box?

Depends on what sort of letterbox you have.

I volunteer to deliver the local parish newsletter on my street which I enjoy as it allows me to have a nosey in everyone's gardens makes me feel more part of the community. Also many moons ago I did Avon, and also my dad was a postman and I used to help him out with his leaflets sometimes. And my parents once had a newsagents and I covered for the paper boys not turning up...

Anyway some letterboxes are more tricky than others. I try to push the newsletter right through, but if it's one of those more "grabby" letterboxes with a tightly sprung flap (fnar) and stiff bristles (fnar again), basically if I fold the newsletter in half and still can't push it right through without risking my fingers being trapped then...I won't.

Same as if you have one of those dogs who acts like a shredder to anything coming through the letterbox...

Oh god the leafletters here do the half way thing. Rolled up, to make sure even a tiny leaflet jams the letterbox properly open and the winter wind whistles all day straight into the front rooms of the entire street (no hallways).