So the little lady is in the bath eating the plug cord and sinking her toy boat when there's a knock at the door...hmmm... I consider not answering it but the car's in the drive and all the lights are on and so of course it may appear rude not to when I am clearly at home. I open the door hearing a multitude of splashes plop themselves onto the bathroom floor to find my next door neighbour standing there with a package he's clearly been given because we were not at home when the postman came.
I thank Colin for kindly taking the package in and shut the door returning to the bathroom to find the lady waving my razor around without the safety guard on. The content of the package is expected, I have ordered a birthday banner for the lady because Vistaprint tempted me with their too good to be true freebies where you only have to pay for postage but have to spend hours figuring out what you're actually entitled to...anywho, what is baffling me is why on earth the postman left my package next door when I have a lovely shiny new sticker saying:
Our lovely Royal Mail have now decided as a matter of course to automatically leave undelivered post and packages with neighbours...you can however opt out. Which I did indeed do for three reasons.
1. the neighbours to our left are a bit weird if I'm honest, they send their children round to borrow paracetamol and occasionally old newspapers and one time an electrical pump for blowing up inflatables (which we did in fact have but that's another story) I'm not sure I want them left in charge of my post. Not feeling too worried about what they'd do with birthday banners but with other slightly more valuable things we on occasion order. On occassion.
2. I don't want our elderly neighbour to the right being bothered with our packages and having to bring them round, mostly because I'm embarrassed by our unseemly untidy front garden and its permanent rubble feature...
3. I don't want anyone else to know how much stuff I buy (and how many "freebies" I've recently been buying off Vistaprint...), whom I have to see on a regular basis!
so a few weeks ago I went online to the Royal Mail website ordered my sticker, of which you only get one by the way, to say "please return undelivered mail to sorting office". It clearly instructs you to stick it in a place visible to the postman so I thought "I know. Where's more visible than on the letter slot in my door?" But no. Apparently this is too subtle. The postman would have knocked on the door and stood there for a good minute until deciding we weren't at home, clearly he did not look at the sticker He then probably lifted the flap with the sticker on to see if the package would fit. He then would have decided to leave it with Colin...
...What is the world coming to!
Having contemplated this frustrating incident I realise that the lady is chewing on the shampoo bottle after being repeatedly asked not to.
It appears that no-one listens to me!
