What's the messiest you've looked for postman?

[Fanananaa]

I am waiting for postman to come and he's 1 stop away and I feel a mess. In my pjs with a long cardigan, no makeup and messy hair stuffed in a bun.
I have nowhere to go today do just having a lazy day but the poor guy is going to be greeted by a horror

Messy hair, no make up, too much skin exposed that I've hid as much as I can behind the front door.
Probably with baby sick and leaky boobs 🤷🏻‍♀️
Could not give a shit what the post man thinks of me 😅

I answered wrapped in a slightly too short towel strait from shower once. To be fair I was expecting DP who'd left his keys at home, not the postman... I shrieked and run off for my dressing gown before I spoke to him

No bra. My lunch spilled down my top. No shower and bed hair.

Accidentally semi naked for the Argos man?

Wearing odd slippers and covered head to foot in baby vomit with said baby in my arms (she had shit as she spewed so double stink) and my boob still out. I don't think your cardigan and messy hair is too horrific tbh 🤣
Postman didn't seem to notice.

And once wearing only a blanket for the health visitor who called unexpectedly! I was very hot and pregnant and naked and I thought it was my DH. She was shocked

Yodel guy hammered doorbell. I unlatched newborn DD1 and ran to get it, not covering myself nearly as well as I would've liked.

DD1 is now 2.5, I'm breastfeeding DD2 and the driver is now with Hermes - lovely young man that he is, he still knocks incredibly softly at our house.

Well i came running down the stairs to sign for a parcel, still wet from a shower with a towel wrapped round me. Slipped on the floor as i got to the bottom of the stairs, slid on my ass for what seemed like miles and came to a halt with the towel wide open not far from his feet. So fairly messy. 😁

This literally wouldn't enter my head! The postie doesn't give a shit. Some relatives of mine are friends with our postie in our previous house. I answered the door looking a wreck loads and saw him at least once a year at a family and friends type party and still never considered not looking a wreck to open the door. Honestly it's fine.

Also examples of wreck are dying eyebrow and or hair.
Face mask on
Almost never wearing a bra
Greasy hair
Almost always pjs/house clothes.

Dressing gown, hair scarecrow like, bra, pants and still-open dressing gown full of still-warm regurgitated milk that bf newborn had just produced. I was sat on the sofa thinking wtf do I do now with a lap full of reflux Vom when the postman knocked. For a parcel for next door.

DP was once standing next to the door in his underpants (only), door bell went and without thinking he answered the door. I felt sorry for the postman! DP didn't even blink.

Hungover, last nights make up, couldn't say thank you or I would have vommed so had to grunt and then collapse on the sofa.

With 1 boob out
I didn't realise till he'd gone
Back in the newborn breastfeeding days when it's pointless putting them away

I walked past the screen door feeding my newborn who promptly unlatched and power chucked all over me in front of him Plus my boob was hanging out.
I didn’t realise he was there and about to knock.
He signed for me and scarpered.

But I did get a onesie from him the following week and he never knocked if he thought the baby might be asleep.

I lived in a house with stairs up to the front door. Maybe three or four. Postman knocked with a parcel for me but I was a. In a hurry because I was going out b. In socks on a tiled floor c. Rushing towards the door which was already open.

Yes, I essentially threw myself at the poor bloke. He wasn't sure if he should step aside or catch me. I ended up in a heap at the bottom of the stairs with him staring at me.

Just in a towel, straight out of shower. It's not a great look on a woman of my vintage!

We have a mailbox at the end of the driveway and the letter carrier (we don't call them postman here anymore) just pops the mail in and drives off. He doesn't even have to get out of his vehicle. My letter carrier is lovely (and quite a looker) but the only time he's ever seen me is if I'm out gardening.

Do they really come to your door, ring the bell and hand you your post when you answer the door?

He rarely sees me in anything other than leggings and a jumper, or my pjs.

Pjs, dressing gown and bed head that looked like I'd been dragged through a hedge backwards

You are a sentient human being.

You really don't need to dress up for anyone. If you want to, do so by all means.

But you really do not need to, for anyone.

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Enjoy.

Just 'woke from sleep' messy with stained pjs, hair sleep-mussed, sleep-ridden eyes and unbrushed teeth. Not that I give a damn!

Only wearing a dressing gown hastily grabbed as I hurtled down the stairs.

I did once open the door to Hermes with a glass of wine in my hand (I was walking to the lounge with it as he knocked)

My postman wouldn’t notice. He talks to himself all way round and has imaginary arguments after he puts the post through. He’ll be arguing with somebody in his head it is like listening to one side of a conversation. ‘ he says , in a raised voice, ‘Oh why do you think she will do that?’ ‘ No I’m not going to, you can tell Him’ ‘I’m bloody sick of it’. He has been doing it for 20 odd years though. It startled me at first when I heard him shouting. DH heard it for the first time during lockdown; he thought I had been exaggerating.

Do they really come to your door, ring the bell and hand you your post when you answer the door?

In pre-COVID days yes, if it needed a signature or if it wouldn't go through the letterbox. Now they put it in a safe place or if it needs signing they knock and show you the package outside from a safe distance then they update their PDA that it's been delivered.

Naked - DS opened the door when I was naked and reaching across the hallway to grab a towel while shouting nooooooo to DS who was a toddler at that point. The delivery man just laughed and every time he delivered something after that he smiled and I wanted the ground to swallow me up!