People who rattle letterboxes are twats

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Cannot stand it.
Knock.
Ring the bell.
Don't rattle my fucking letterbox.
So damn irritating.

Am I being unreasonable?

It’s not the people using letterboxes that are twats

Just don’t answer until they knock properly.

Say you heard the letter box but assumed it was the postman who had lots to post.

Yabu. As a community support worker doing house calls, the majority of doorbells never seem to bloody work and knocking the door is either unheard or ignored. I’m on a tight schedule with my house calls, as I imagine other people are who are going house to house (delivery drivers etc). So I’ll go for a good letterbox rap rather than ringing the bell with my ear to the door trying to hear if it’s working, or knocking the door over and over again. It’s only to announce that someone’s at the door. I didn’t cross my mind it was annoying.

I hate people who knock and ring. One or the bloody other! Why both??

Dear lord, do you really need to ‘discipline’ people at your door because they don’t follow your imaginary knocking rules? ‘I’m not answering unless you knock properly’! 😂 They’re not mind readers. Chances are she’ll ignore the letterbox and they’ll leave and she’ll have to go without her parcel or whatever they’re there for.

Is this a thing? Is it a regional thing?
I've never come across this. People knock or ring the doorbell. I wouldn't answer to a letterbox rattle, I would just assume its something being posted.

It's not delivery people or anything like that, they knock, like normal people 😂

It's these cold caller types; the 'do you want your roof cleaned' people, charity people wanting signups, or politicians canvassing, that kind of thing.

I've never encountered it before the last 3 months or so, always lived in the same area.

Seems to happen often now. Weird.

Back in the day, in Newcastle, there was a strict protocol I learned:

Doorbell* *- formal caller, someone you didn't know, Tory election candidate
Door knock - meter reader, someone with an agreed appointment, salesperson, Labour election candidate
Rattling letterboxes - your mam, close family, friendly neighbour, informal caller you knew very well

For a salesperson for breach the etiquette and cross category lines to get you to open the door to them would be, well, shocking. And they'd get a right mouthful.

What the hell? Where do you live? We have a bell and delivery people knock like they're the police about to raid us which annoys me. But no one rattles the letterbox, if that happened I'd assume it was kids or a burgler.

Oh friends and family don't knock, they walk in and announce their presence. I don't mind that, we're all close and it's how it's always been.
I might start with the "right mouthfull" approach though

"The North" 🤣 ....but it's definitely a 2022 trend around here.

I think that's why some people have those snappy flaps.
Ours has a two inch draught excluder muffler but still people try to chap it.
Oddly enough the scrap man so there may be something in Ezras theory...

Noone has ever rattled my letterbox. I feel lift out.

*left out

I need people to ring the bell as I don't hear knocks or rattles, even with hearing aids in.

Have you got a door knocker?

IME letter boxes are rattled when the bell isn't working (or can't be heard from the doorstep) and there's no knocker. Knocking on the door without one is pointless.

Never had the letter rattled as far as I can remember but people who ring the bell as then immediately bang on the door really irritate me.

Born in Newcastle and have no clue what protocol you’re talking about. Geordies are generally too laid back to fanny about with nonsense like this.

We don’t have a doorbell so perfectly happy for people to knock or rattle the letterbox.

Giving people a right mouthful for not sticking to some arbitrary rules literally no one else has heard of is insane and really fucking rude. My letterbox has a knocker, I bet you’d have a heart attack presented with that.

Punch them OP. Just fucking square up and land one on them, every time. Those fucks. They'll soon learn.

I have never heard of letterbox rattling? Do you mean pushing the flap back and forth? Why would anyone do that?

Agreed. I’m fact, if there is a bell, just use it, don’t ring it and then bash the door down two seconds later.

We have a postie that refuses to use the very prominent ring doorbell and rattles the letterbox instead.
I have a Ring alarm sensor on the front gate though so I know when he's opened it and can actually pre empt him rattling. Several times I've spoken to him via the bell but he still insists on rattling. Maybe it scares him? 😁

Doorbells often don't work and ones where you can't hear them ring at the door are really frustrating. You don't know if you're standing there like a lemon waiting for someone who doesnt know you're there.