AIBU to be quietly livid? Post lady commented on my post !!

[Rosiebrown1]

Hi everyone:)
I live in a large village of about 2000 residents and live as a single parent with a two year old.
Yesterday the local post lady, (whom I know by her first name but is not an acquaintance of any kind), stopped me whilst I was out walking with DD.
She basically started the conversation with, ‘ Oi, do you have a ‘bloke’ living with you now’? She wasn’t friendly. She was forceful and matter of fact.
I was a little taken aback at first and asked why. Her reply was that she had delivered a small parcel through my letterbox a few days before with a man’s name on the address.
When I realised which post she was referring to I stupidly gave her an explanation: My neighbour had been having trouble receiving an order for a pair of prescription reading glasses and I suggested that he could have them delivered to my house. My address is easier to find for some reason and I thought nothing of offering assistance so he could receive something important. Nothing more I may add.
Her reply was, ‘ well I mentioned it to my neighbour and my husband and we all thought it was a bit strange and wondered if ‘you’d moved someone in.’
WTF? She is discussing my post with people and even challenging me in the street regarding my relationship status!?
Am I over reacting here?
Sorry but I feel it’s cheeky at best and I feel scrutinised and bullied at worst.
I take it on board if I am just being prickly.
Thanks for listening x

@recklessruby

Bloody hell OP do you live in Greendale? She sounds like Mrs Goggins. Yanbu. None of her business.

Or Ambridge and it's Susan, although Susan would know his name, dob, marital status and inside leg measurment!

I'd name my house "take a running jump nosy Postie" and sign up to every catalogue going.

I'd name my house "take a running jump nosy Postie" and sign up to every catalogue going.

How immature.

Do it, OP - you have to - now!!!!

Bloody hell OP do you live in Greendale? She sounds like Mrs Goggins.

But Pat himself is the really incompetent one who can't manage a simple delivery (as with OP's poor neighbour needing his glasses).

He gets given a simple task, stuffs it up spectacularly, has to be bailed out by everybody else in Greendale and then those same people rally around proclaim Pat an absolute hero for saving the day!

Get online and make a complaint. You will get a number to contact your local main PO or you can fill something online I think..

I once had to when I kept getting my neighbour's mail and they got mine. Semi detached and large house numbers on the doors, clear as day. 3 and 5. Easy you would think.
MIL (two streets away) kept having to trade mail with her neighbours too and FIL picked up two dropped envelopes from the middle of the road and chased the postie with them! Postie had the audacity to be annoyed and snapped, "I was going to come back for them!"

I can definitely believe a small village postie would do that @Rosiebrown1 and I reckon our small village pharmacy worker would be the same. I'm very tempted to buy a pregnancy test kit one day and go in later and buy a pack of Pregnacare multivitamins/folic acid just to see how long it takes to get round that I'm expecting.