She said she was going to person to "laminate instructions" to permission retired for the posties
- Sarah Bull, Digital Senior Reporter
- Published: 10:23, 8 Feb 2025
- Updated: 10:23, 8 Feb 2025
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A WOMAN who shelled retired £300 connected a "parcel box" to halt annoying transportation men disturbing her with packages was near baffled by 1 driver's reaction.
She explained that she was fed up of them knocking connected her doorway erstwhile they had thing to deliver, truthful decided to instrumentality measures to halt it from happening.
So, she did immoderate research, and invested successful a lockable container that stood astatine the broadside of her house.
It has 2 slots connected it - a slim 1 for letters and a larger 1 for parcels, and the deliveries each autumn down into the bottommost furniture which tin lone beryllium accessed with a key.
The pistillate had besides stuck a motion to her beforehand door, which read: "Please permission each packages and deliveries successful bundle box, convey you!"
However, erstwhile a postman tried to present a parcel to her house, helium wholly ignored the directions, and near the cardboard bundle BEHIND the parcel box.
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He'd besides near a calling card telling her that the bundle was "behind box".
"Thought I was helping the posties retired truthful they didn't person to knock," she wrote alongside pictures of the container and said delivery connected Reddit.
"They truly bash locomotion among us," she added.
"£300 parcel container for thing it seems!"
"I fishy it got mangled successful the container arsenic they didn't cognize however it worked truthful they conscionable stuck it behind," she besides wrote successful the comments section.
"Don’t recognize this 1 spot lol," 1 idiosyncratic wrote.
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"I rejoice erstwhile I spot 1 of these, wherefore spell done the effort to enactment it down the container and past person to constitute retired a p739?"
And erstwhile different questioned whether oregon not the container was "blocked", she replied: "I checked and it wasn't.
"Although the different time Amazon fractional opened it and stuffed a parcel down the spread and wholly blocked it and mangled the bundle successful the mechanism.
"I cognize you aren't calved with the cognition of however everything works but travel on!"
She besides wrote: "I whitethorn people and laminate instructions but I don't privation it to look passive aggressive, possibly a elemental 'open doorway fully'?
"I've had a fewer deliveries wherever idiosyncratic has opened the hatch portion mode to spot successful to the bottommost and rammed a parcel successful and got it stuck."