![]() I genuinely had no idea why our mailbox came with a little metal red flag on it when we first moved here. ![]() Smart eh? But he also does something else that a British postie can’t do. Spot the big difference? The US mailman doesn’t have to get out of his van. This nice looking mailman is called Joel Summers. So here is a Royal Mail postman (looking a bit shifty actually): It was a really, really, crap programme (show). There is a reason Postman Pat did not make stateside when Bob the Builder did – and it’s not just because he drove the wrong colour of van. But here there are mailmen and women who drive little white trucks (vans) and stop at the end of our driveways and leave our mail (post) in our mailboxes. If we did, I am sure hordes of marauding teenagers on ASBOs (do they still have ASBO’s? (Anti-social Behaviour Orders)) would love taking out mailboxes like they were skittles. But instead, we have letterboxes cut in our doors.Īlso, we have merry postmen and women who park their red vans (trucks) and walk with their bags of letters and parcels and deliver our post (mail) right onto our doormats. Never.īut I say that not because Britain is a country of tea drinking, cucumber sandwich munching law abiding citizens…. But the state policeman called it criminal mischief so that’s what I’m going with – a phrase that maybe even deserves it’s own blog post (such a cute term – it was one of the highlights of a rather irritating incident!).Ĭan you see that? Someone decapitated our mailbox. Last week we were subject to an act of “criminal mischief” which I might call “criminal damage” or just “vandalism” if I was in the UK.
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