Postwoman lets herself in

makeitstop

hazyjo wrote: »

I'm a tad confused as to how your front door must work - do you have a handle on it? Does it look like it might be a porch door but opens straight into house?


Mine is a flat front door with just holes for two keys. Doesn't sound very safe having an unlocked front door with a handle anyway. Maybe I'm missing something. Maybe you're sitting there with your front door open as in literally open or ajar. In that case, I'd say that's different.


Jx

No, no it's not different at all.

This house HAS A LETTER / POST BOX. Take a guess what that's for.?

Even if the door is open, mail should not be placed inside the house without specific consent from the owner.

My own mail people have done similar things in the past, whereby when the door is slightly open, the mail has been flung into the house onto the kitchen floor. It P****s me right off and on numerous occasions I had missed them doing it. However, when I was near to the door and one did it I called hi back and said, hey matey, there's a post box there look, the big black thing on the wall with the house name on it.

He looked well sheepish and apologised. It hasn't happened since with him.

The other guy that did it in the past no longer does the round at ours, but he'd get the same too if it came to me when I was able to speak up about it.

Not acceptable at all sorry.

Gloomendoom

hieveryone wrote: »

I swear to goodness if I was walking past my front door and the postie opened it he would get a punch in the face and the police would be called ASAP!!

I'm not sure that the police would be remotely interested as the postie is leaving things, not taking them away.

There again, they might want to charge you with assault.

Peter333

hieveryone wrote: »

I swear to goodness if I was walking past my front door and the postie opened it he would get a punch in the face and the police would be called ASAP!!

Wow, nice.

Hope you have a good lawyer.

That is called assault.

Peter333

Georgiegirl256 wrote: »

If I'm out and not pottering round the house, then yes of course the door is locked as my husband is upstairs, 2 floors up in his office, so unlikely to hear if anyone entered.

I fail to see how a door with an outside handle is bizarre! :rotfl: I guess we all have our different ways of thinking!

Every front door on every house we have had has a front door with an outside handle. I agree with you Georgie.

makeitstop

Georgiegirl256 wrote: »

Then lock the door if you have a problem with it, that's the easiest way to solve it.

Depending on which postie we have, some knock and some just open the door and put the post on the telephone table by the door or sometimes they throw it on the floor. If it's just letters then it's through the letter box. The above happens usually only when it's parcels or a lot of post.

At first I was abit taken about it, but now it doesn't bother me. They even do it if they can see my sitting there in the living room. Rightly or wrongly, it's a thing a lot of posties do, and if it bothered me I'd be having a word with her first rather than reporting her. If it carried on, then I'd report her if it bothered me.

Staggering.

So you were intially unhappy with the practise, said nothing about it, and then, over time, have become conditioned to it being "OK".???

Why have you changed your mind about what you initially thought was unusual.?

God, I could be having some "fun" with the wife over the kitchen worktops and the postie walks in. "Oh high mr postman, no problem, just stick the mail and the side there and shut the door on your way out."

I don't think so.

It's your house, and you 'should' be able to have privacy within it as and when you wish, even if your doors are not locked.

Peter333

Maybe Georgie was just taken aback at first, and then quickly realised that it was not a big deal, and that is was ridiculous and petty to make an issue out of something trivial.

This is how I am reading into it.

I have been the same. Not sure about something to start with, and then quickly adjusted.

You're making out Georgie has done something weird, or she is lying. Neither of which applies.

I am rural and our postie does the same as with the OP: just pops the post in the doorway if it's open. Or in the utility. They don't open the door, but if they did, it wouldn't bother me. If it did, I would lock the doors.

trollopscarletwoman

Don't have a problem with it personally.

If I have a parcel bigger than letter box and I'm on nights so mrs on days postie opens door ajar slips in said mail so what.

hieveryone

Gloomendoom wrote: »

I'm not sure that the police would be remotely interested as the postie is leaving things, not taking them away.

There again, they might want to charge you with assault.

Peter333 wrote: »

Wow, nice.

Hope you have a good lawyer.

That is called assault.

I think a strange man entering a house when a female is in the house herself is a good cause for concern for the police actually!

Cover story would be 'I was just opening the door to put the mail in....' :eek:

Nup, no argument will ever get me to see how a stranger opening your front door is acceptable, unless in an absolute emergency.

trollopscarletwoman

Lock the door up

very simple really.

Torry_Quine

Kim_kim wrote: »

So do you leave the keys in from the inside & unlock when people knock?
If that was me I would feel funny locking myself in. I just grab the handle & open the door it's what I'm used to.
Also I have my car keys on the same keyring & I would worry about people hooking them & stealing the car - you door hear of that happening with keys left near the door.

Don't you feel odd having to unlock the door with a key when someone knocks? Like you live in Fort Knox :-)

Another reason I don't like locking with keys I worry about fires & I like my escape route to be unobstructed.

My keys are kept on the shelf in the hall and it's no trouble to pick them up as I walk past to answer the door. I would feel very vulnerable with an unlocked door.