"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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On 16/01/2019 13:26, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
So, the Low Level Letterbox Prohibition Bill got an unusually large
viewing today, and cross party support...

It is, even for politicians, a no brainer.

I wasn't sure whether this was a fictitious bill, but it really does
exist. It makes a lot of sense for houses to have letter boxes that are
more at hand height as the postman is standing at the door. Shame it
doesn't also mandate a minimum height of the hole, to accommodate
thicker packages without the postman having to ring the bell or take the
package back to the sorting office for you to collect. At our old house
I cut a larger hole for a larger letter box, and the postman commented
on several occasions how much easier it made his life as he rarely had
to take anything back to the sorting office. Shame that modern UPVC
doors (unlike wooden ones) don't make it easy to fit a larger box than
the small ones that the doors usually come with.

But hasn't the country voted to leave the EU - primarily to stop being
told what to do?

To stop being told what to do *by anyone other than their own elected
government*.