Postman Boycotts Resident That Accused Him Of ‘Pretending’ To Attempt Deliveries

A postman has boycotted an address after being accused of ‘pretending’ to attempt deliveries.

The Royal Mail postie was faced with a hostile note at the address and it seems it hasn’t had the desired effect – quite the opposite, in fact.

The note read: “Royal Mail. Don’t even think about putting a card through the door without ringing the doorbell and pretending that the delivery was attempted but no one was in – as happened on Saturday.

“We were in all day and we’ll be in today, Tuesday.

“RING THE BELL AND DELIVER THE PARCEL.”

The postman shared a snap of the note on a Facebook page for posties last week and it has amassed more than 500 likes, with one member labelling the resident a t****r’.

As punishment for leaving the note, the postie said he has added the resident to his ‘naughty list’ and hopes they ‘enjoy collecting their mail from the office over Christmas’.

The postie said he had been delivering to the address as part of his round for 10 years and this was the second time they had spoken to him in this manner.

Over the past two years, the postman has repeatedly written about his ‘naughty list’ and even claimed he would happily endure wintry weather to write a missed delivery note for those on it.

In June 2020, he wrote: “I’ll gladly stand in the p***ing rain and cold to write out a 739 [missed delivery note] for someone like that, they will never get off the naughty list as long as I’m on the duty.”

A Royal Mail spokesperson said its posties work ‘extremely hard’ to get deliveries to customers.

They said: “Every single item of mail is important to us. Our postmen and women work extremely hard to deliver to mail to customers across the country, six days a week, in all weathers.

“Thankfully the vast majority of items are securely delivered to customers, but if we believe a customer is not at home, we will attempt to deliver the item to a neighbour and leave a card.

“If we can’t deliver to them, we’ll leave a card and take the item back to the Customer Service Point where customers can either collect it or arrange a redelivery.

“We would advise anyone who has delivery concerns can contact the Royal Mail customer service team.”