People have complained that postmen sometimes leave a card saying that they could not contact us, or that the householders were out. (I have to say that this has happened a few times at our house, though not for a few months, when we were in and would have heard the bell if it had been rung.)
The postal watchdog has recently commissioned a survey to see how widespread the experience is. Amazingly, 55% of respondents said that it had happened to them, and 23% that it had happened on at least three occasions.
It was irritating, to say the least, last Christmas, when we were left a card, and after making our way to the soon-to-be-closed sorting office and parting with £1.18, we were handed a Christmas card with no stamp - either forgotten or had become detached. I could understand this in the old days, when we sometimes received our post at 7.30 am, and the postie perhaps did not want to disturb us, but we now receive our post any time between 9.30 and 2.30!
It seems, by way of explanation, that some posties resent having to take out small packets, or under-stamped letters, but to leave them in the sorting office and put a card, written before starting the round, saying that we were out, is nothing less than deception.
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