Should I complain about this postie?....

shaun_from_Africa

If you leave your car with the engine running and it's stolen you get nothing from your insurance

Apart from that, there is always this aspect of it.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-504888/Driver-fined-leaving-engine-running-car-defrosted-outside-home.html

I know that the chances of getting prosecuted are remote, but you never know.

SHIPSHAPE

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

Apart from that, there is always this aspect of it.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-504888/Driver-fined-leaving-engine-running-car-defrosted-outside-home.html

I know that the chances of getting prosecuted are remote, but you never know.

Completely irrelevant if the car was parked on the OP's own driveway.

By the way, are you a postie, middle aged and did you get caught short the other day?

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Dave_C wrote: »

1. If he wants to use your toilet, £10 is a reasonable fee.

Dave, by the numbers

How do you arrive at this reasonable figure?

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dibuzz wrote: »

I hope you didn't leave the car unattended when it was running, it takes seconds for somebody to jump in and drive off.

How do you know that?

Would it still takes seconds if the car was parked on a private driveway with locked steel gates in an area where car theft is rare?

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Mrs_Huggett wrote: »

Why does the fact that he is of African descent have anything to do with it may I ask?

Oh God! (yawn)

jojo_2012_2

Yes I left the car unattended. Very naughty my insurance wouldn't touch my claim with a barge pole if the keys were in it.

I see the postie on my way out regularly enough to be fairly certain he knows I live alone, which makes it all the more peculiar he should chose to ask to enter MY house. I'm surrounded by older couples and their families. Will just be careful. If I catch him letting himself into my porch again I'll make a complaint about both times.

Dave_C_2

SHIPSHAPE wrote: »

How do you arrive at this reasonable figure?

I guessed, and forgot to add a

rustyboy21

OP

Haven't you thouht that he may have been genuine and desperate for a pee?

Your house may have looked like the only one on the rd with someone in and up and out of bed ( car running on driveway ) and he bult up courage to knock and asked if he could use the loo?

Leaving letters hanging out the door isn't a sackable offence. A lot of houses have very strong springs on the letterboxes, mine doesnt but all my post gets caught up in the draught excluder brushes and is always 1/2 way in the house. My next door neighbours letterbox is viscious, I got my finger jammed yesterday posting their Xmas card.

If you have had no reason in the past to complain about him, I wouldn't worry about it. My postie is a doddering old fool who keeps me waiting at the door in my PJ's whist he works out how to use the Recorded delivery machine. It was bleeding freezing the other day ! But he does his job and why should I complain that I don't personally like him?

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op, it does sound odd to me. Would he have know that you might have been on your own?

the_lunatic_is_in_my_head

At least he didn't get confused and pee through the letter box.

To be honest if it's a regular postman he'd be pretty stupid to try and do something to someone on his round.