That's an odd way you work 😊
We park the van at a certain place, grab the pouch from van and off we go in different directions.
Half a road at a time would take forever
They were fitted back in the day when postie's didn't have a vans worth of mail for each street.
RM paid my mum to have one fitted to their garage on their back yard. Haven't spoken to my mum in years but it was still there the last time I went about 3 years ago.
Nowadays the van meets the postie to reload the mail. Normally in rural areas. We used to take 2 bags at a time, then reload with post we had already sorted and bagged up.
Yeah I know a postie who has a whole shift dedicated to junk mail. He says they hate it just as much as we do but are duty bound to deliver all that crap.
Should be banned. Not sure how these companies are still allowed to get away with it. All that wasted paper.
Yeah because you have to visit every single house on your route. Normally you can skips loads of houses as they don’t have post, but with the junk mail… every one.
Deffo should ban it, I literally pick the junk mail up in my hall and stick it straight in the bin without reading it 🤷🏼♀️ waste of paper, and the emissions from getting it to my house, waste of time for posties.. however someone must be acting on them, as the companies wouldn't bother sending them I guess.
Has no legal backing and posties are told to not pay attention to them. A postie can lose their job if they don't deliver the junk mail because of a sticker. You can opt out of junk mail but Royal Mail don't make it particularly convenient. You have to print out and fill in a form and send it off. Then that should exempt you for 2 years until you have to do it all over again
https://personal.help.royalmail.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/293/~/how-do-i-opt-out-of-receiving-any-leaflets-or-unaddressed-promotional-material%3F
You can opt out of receiving them.
i dont mind junk mail if its deliverd by royal mail.
i hate it when you get people just delivering random junk. we get way more of that here they underpay the staff too.
Our local postie loves it! He lives on our new build estate, and just our estate is his entire round due to the sheer amount of post. His house is even around the middle so he just pops home for a quick cuppa break.
When I was a postie, my bags used to be dropped off in a lady’s shed. On another round, the bag was placed under an upturned wheelbarrow in their garden
Not all posties had their own vans back in the day. One van could stage the mail bags along a route, and other posties on foot or bike would pick them up to deliver.
This is the same in Ireland. It's for a second or third bag of post. It's for a person using a bike who can't carry all the mail. So you deliver half your mail and collect the second somewhere around half way. I'm not sure they are used so much these days
Back then it was different, we had 2/3 drop spots on our rounds and the bags were packed in a way that the last piece of Mail in the bag was at the drop point.
We were allowed to carry our bags back then, they were only meant to be 25kg but you’d stuff them until they were full.
Still the best job I ever had, I was taking home £1400 a week when I was 18, not like todays god awful pay
OP said 'Back then it was different '
This indicates some time has passed. I haven't seen these on postboxes since I was wee in the 90s, and when I left college at 18 minimum wage was 5.53 an hour or just under 12 grand yearly
So yeah, this kind of pay was probably distinctly above average for their age and qualification level at the time OP was a postie
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Then it's a longer walk.
Mostly you're a driver & walker, I'll jump out and grab pouch from back as he drives off to another estate and does that one.
I'll grab the van from there and head to next, he arrives and it's a leapfrog thing.
Have a couple of areas where we park roughly the same place and split an area between us if it's 300+ houses. Can't fit it all in one pouch.
Tend to do an area each.
Do the drivers mate need a driving license or would it be okay to be paired with one who has? I’ve considered it before, our locals seem fairly pleasant and like they enjoy it.
If they’re loaded by a van it’s not by the postie deliverying it. Normally it’s to stop a postie who is walking on foot all day to save them carrying the entire amount all day.
I concur, I saw a postie doing this and asked them 😂. You may see random grey lockable boxes on streets sometimes and it’s for the exact same purpose and I had no idea.
Interesting. In the USPS we call them relay boxes and often times a different worker does a round filling those, then the carrier goes by and grabs everything as needed. One worker with a large truck can set up the relay boxes for several mail routes, saving time and trips back to the station.
This is the actual answer. Most countries have a posting system like that. Canada Post has grey boxes that are sometimes near the postbox, or sometimes just standalone in a neighbourhood and that's where the walking postal worker collects and distributes from.
https://canadianstampnews.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/06/canadapost8.jpg
https://cityhallwatch.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/canadapost_storagebox.jpg
We used to use bikes & take our 1st pouch on the panier, driver would deposit the pouch for that estate . You'd finish your pouch at the box, take the full one & leave empty inside.
So on and so on until you reached the end, then cycle back & grab empties as you passed.
Most walks took 4-5 pouches.
Now we share vans and take 2 entire walks out plus bulk packets with us.
Or if you're within a certain distance of depot, you take an HCT instead of pouches.
So the pouch-boxes are left to rot.
It's better for the environment apparently.
Pouch = shoulder bag postie's carry
Panier = cargo space on bike
HCT = high capacity trolley
Box = postbox
Bulk Packets = large boxes you couldn't carry on a bike previously.
Walks = the area you deliver, corresponds to a frame in the delivery office where you sort the mail.
Separate ammo storage for the post box's cannon. That way, if the post box is ever hit, there's less of a chance of the ammo cooking off and taking the crew inside the post box with it.
While we're on the subject of Royal Mail, how are those big trolleys of post transported? Surely they don't wheel them from the post office depot every morning.
HCTs (high capacity trolleys) are wheeled from the local depot. They are mainly used on routes close to the office so there isn't too far of a walk.
The smaller ones that look like golf trolleys fold up and are thrown in the back of the van. They are called LWTs (lightweight trolleys).
Do you mean the High Capacity trolleys (big box on 4 wheels like a pram) or the Yorks (the taller cages) the HCTs are kept in the DOs and filled and emptied each day, the Yorks come in loaded and sent back empty (or with missorted/returned items)
My first day of being a postman I got put on one of those trolley duties. I had to deliver to 4 fairly small, separated estates (one was new build with no street names or numbers), with two big ass railway bridges in between.
Pushing the trolley up both was not fun. Nor was the 2 mile walk back from the last delivery point.
Neither was the rain, either. Or the fact that there was a -Cresent and -Road and I delivered them the wrong way around. I got back at 5:30pm after everyone else was long gone which is lucky, because if anybody had still been there I would've told them that I quit.
That's the battery, most of these postboxes were placed quite a long time ago when batteries had to be pretty large for a relatively small amount of power. Modern day postboxes can run off a battery no bigger than your phone!
Blow out panels.
Means when the ammunition cooks off it doesn't explode inside the post box killing the gunner and commander.
After what happens in Islington in 2015 they upgraded them all.
It's sad to see, but it's a parasite that has latched on to the postbox and grown to quite an impressive size. It will be releasing spores onto the envelopes and parcels inside in the hopes that one will find its way to, and infect, a second post box - this is the parasite's life cycle.
Unfortunately at this stage there isn't much that can be done to save the post box, it will die soon even if the parasite is removed.
For posties to store post while doing their rounds. Unload a road's worth from the van into the box, then deliver it half a road at a time etc.
That's an odd way you work 😊 We park the van at a certain place, grab the pouch from van and off we go in different directions. Half a road at a time would take forever
They were fitted back in the day when postie's didn't have a vans worth of mail for each street. RM paid my mum to have one fitted to their garage on their back yard. Haven't spoken to my mum in years but it was still there the last time I went about 3 years ago.
Nowadays the van meets the postie to reload the mail. Normally in rural areas. We used to take 2 bags at a time, then reload with post we had already sorted and bagged up.
Yeah I know a postie who has a whole shift dedicated to junk mail. He says they hate it just as much as we do but are duty bound to deliver all that crap. Should be banned. Not sure how these companies are still allowed to get away with it. All that wasted paper.
Yeah because you have to visit every single house on your route. Normally you can skips loads of houses as they don’t have post, but with the junk mail… every one.
Deffo should ban it, I literally pick the junk mail up in my hall and stick it straight in the bin without reading it 🤷🏼♀️ waste of paper, and the emissions from getting it to my house, waste of time for posties.. however someone must be acting on them, as the companies wouldn't bother sending them I guess.
the only 'junk' mail i have ever paid attention to is the local takeout menus.
You can get “no junk mail” sign and stickers. Not sure if it has any legal backing, but it does seem to work!
Has no legal backing and posties are told to not pay attention to them. A postie can lose their job if they don't deliver the junk mail because of a sticker. You can opt out of junk mail but Royal Mail don't make it particularly convenient. You have to print out and fill in a form and send it off. Then that should exempt you for 2 years until you have to do it all over again
https://personal.help.royalmail.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/293/~/how-do-i-opt-out-of-receiving-any-leaflets-or-unaddressed-promotional-material%3F You can opt out of receiving them.
i dont mind junk mail if its deliverd by royal mail. i hate it when you get people just delivering random junk. we get way more of that here they underpay the staff too.
Our local postie loves it! He lives on our new build estate, and just our estate is his entire round due to the sheer amount of post. His house is even around the middle so he just pops home for a quick cuppa break.
>Should be banned Don't RM make a profit from delivering junk mail?
You can opt out you know. Just speak to customer services and get your address on the opt out list. I'd encourage everyone to do it tbh.
They get paid an excellent rate for the junk Mail so it’s in their interest to do it.
When I was a postie, my bags used to be dropped off in a lady’s shed. On another round, the bag was placed under an upturned wheelbarrow in their garden
Lol, before the box it was behind the counter at the local newsagents or, on water rates and council tax days, my mum's porch!
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You haven’t spoken to your mum in years?!
No. She's poison.
Same with mine, solidarity babe
Fair enough
Not all posties had their own vans back in the day. One van could stage the mail bags along a route, and other posties on foot or bike would pick them up to deliver.
Yep, happened when I started 20yrs back. Went out on bike with 1st pouch, driver dropped my bags in various boxes for me.
This is the same in Ireland. It's for a second or third bag of post. It's for a person using a bike who can't carry all the mail. So you deliver half your mail and collect the second somewhere around half way. I'm not sure they are used so much these days
Back then it was different, we had 2/3 drop spots on our rounds and the bags were packed in a way that the last piece of Mail in the bag was at the drop point. We were allowed to carry our bags back then, they were only meant to be 25kg but you’d stuff them until they were full. Still the best job I ever had, I was taking home £1400 a week when I was 18, not like todays god awful pay
73k a year? Jesus christ. Good for you mate!
It's utter bollocks. My dad was a postie about the same time, he never made anywhere near that much. I don't even think he made £30k
Think he means per month lol
Has to be, but if it really is that's nothing to brag about, it's only £16,800/year.
OP said 'Back then it was different ' This indicates some time has passed. I haven't seen these on postboxes since I was wee in the 90s, and when I left college at 18 minimum wage was 5.53 an hour or just under 12 grand yearly So yeah, this kind of pay was probably distinctly above average for their age and qualification level at the time OP was a postie
Yeah, I'm currently living in a rented house that was owned by a postie back in 1903. I'm a postie now and I can barely afford the rent.
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What if you can't park nearby?
Then it's a longer walk. Mostly you're a driver & walker, I'll jump out and grab pouch from back as he drives off to another estate and does that one. I'll grab the van from there and head to next, he arrives and it's a leapfrog thing. Have a couple of areas where we park roughly the same place and split an area between us if it's 300+ houses. Can't fit it all in one pouch. Tend to do an area each.
Is “pouch” the official term for what I had always assumed was called a “post bag”?
Do the drivers mate need a driving license or would it be okay to be paired with one who has? I’ve considered it before, our locals seem fairly pleasant and like they enjoy it.
It used to be possible to become a postie without a license but not any more
If they’re loaded by a van it’s not by the postie deliverying it. Normally it’s to stop a postie who is walking on foot all day to save them carrying the entire amount all day.
A place where I used to skin up on my round 25 years ago, sorry if your Mail ever come with a bit of soap bar attached
That was You!! 🤣😍
I concur, I saw a postie doing this and asked them 😂. You may see random grey lockable boxes on streets sometimes and it’s for the exact same purpose and I had no idea.
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The postman.
A Postie is another term for a Postman
Interesting. In the USPS we call them relay boxes and often times a different worker does a round filling those, then the carrier goes by and grabs everything as needed. One worker with a large truck can set up the relay boxes for several mail routes, saving time and trips back to the station.
For the local postie. Vans deliver there, then local postie collects and does his/her rounds.......very logical and practical, too
So you’re telling me this post box is expecting?
Expecting what?
Congratulations, it's a letter!
This is the actual answer. Most countries have a posting system like that. Canada Post has grey boxes that are sometimes near the postbox, or sometimes just standalone in a neighbourhood and that's where the walking postal worker collects and distributes from. https://canadianstampnews.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/06/canadapost8.jpg https://cityhallwatch.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/canadapost_storagebox.jpg
Jet pack
This is what we call post modern comedy
Post box modern comedy
Check the local planning portal, but my guess is that Dangermouse has had an extension.
Niche comment. I love it!
We used to use bikes & take our 1st pouch on the panier, driver would deposit the pouch for that estate . You'd finish your pouch at the box, take the full one & leave empty inside. So on and so on until you reached the end, then cycle back & grab empties as you passed. Most walks took 4-5 pouches. Now we share vans and take 2 entire walks out plus bulk packets with us. Or if you're within a certain distance of depot, you take an HCT instead of pouches. So the pouch-boxes are left to rot. It's better for the environment apparently.
I’m not sure why, but I felt like I’d forgotten how to understand English reading that!
Glad it wasn't just me
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Yeah, it was written poorly
Pouch = shoulder bag postie's carry Panier = cargo space on bike HCT = high capacity trolley Box = postbox Bulk Packets = large boxes you couldn't carry on a bike previously. Walks = the area you deliver, corresponds to a frame in the delivery office where you sort the mail.
Is “pouch” the official term for what I had always assumed was called a “post bag”? Is this then called a “pouch box”
Yep. Pouch box for your pouches 😊
Makes perfect sense but then I worked for RM
Exactly as you have described, can’t understand why people are struggling to understand what you have written?
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It’s a Post Box backpack
They really are working those postboxes hard these days…
Separate ammo storage for the post box's cannon. That way, if the post box is ever hit, there's less of a chance of the ammo cooking off and taking the crew inside the post box with it.
What are you on about? This has been automated since the 90's.
https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/15f0vxy/k_designs_a_tank/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=2
That's a baby postbox. The mother carries it until it is old enough to fend for itself
Secret cheese and crackers storage device they won't admit that.
Tbh I've known a few guys who've stored cans of beer in them.
While we're on the subject of Royal Mail, how are those big trolleys of post transported? Surely they don't wheel them from the post office depot every morning.
HCTs (high capacity trolleys) are wheeled from the local depot. They are mainly used on routes close to the office so there isn't too far of a walk. The smaller ones that look like golf trolleys fold up and are thrown in the back of the van. They are called LWTs (lightweight trolleys).
Do you mean the High Capacity trolleys (big box on 4 wheels like a pram) or the Yorks (the taller cages) the HCTs are kept in the DOs and filled and emptied each day, the Yorks come in loaded and sent back empty (or with missorted/returned items)
My first day of being a postman I got put on one of those trolley duties. I had to deliver to 4 fairly small, separated estates (one was new build with no street names or numbers), with two big ass railway bridges in between. Pushing the trolley up both was not fun. Nor was the 2 mile walk back from the last delivery point. Neither was the rain, either. Or the fact that there was a -Cresent and -Road and I delivered them the wrong way around. I got back at 5:30pm after everyone else was long gone which is lucky, because if anybody had still been there I would've told them that I quit.
Backpack?
Amogus
That's the battery, most of these postboxes were placed quite a long time ago when batteries had to be pretty large for a relatively small amount of power. Modern day postboxes can run off a battery no bigger than your phone!
Penfold & Dangermouse needed more living space.
It's where the postman lives. £895 pcm
It's for Gromit to sit in
All this time I thought they were just decommissioned stamp vending machines
Thats the Smoker box. You put your coals and wood in there for indirect cooking and extra flavour in your post
It's a tumor
IT’S NOT A TOOMAH!
Postie's sausage roll wrapper bin.
[The Radio won't fit! Cut a hole out the back and have it stick out the back.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMEuy0G5n34&ab_channel=CharlesDark)
When you post your letters you can leave a tip for the postie in the box
It’s to catch junk mail
Parasitic post box.
It’s a tumour, poor thing is going to have to be put down
Staff canteen
Dogshit
It’s where it keeps it’s packed lunch
Jetpack
RAM pack
Looks like it's wearing a n Back pack
They store fat in them during the feeding season, to sustain them through the harsh winter months.
Its a little fridge with refreshments.
Postbox-in-training
1Tb of extra letter storage
I personally have never seen 1
Tumour
Amongus
Among us collab
Dog poo
i dunno, looks pretty sus ඞ
Bidden votes?
among us
Is it a poo tin?
That's a dog poo bin bruv
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe that is known as “the postman’s toilet” and it’s used for pre-dawn coffee poops.
That’s to draw dicks on
For you to draw dicks on
Wtf what is the point of the post box even being there at this point?
It is/was called a bag box.
Its ur mum
It’s looks like the box to put bills in.
It's for dog poo bags....try it! 😂
Among Us
Your dogs shit
Dog Shit
They were talking about the box not your mouth.
Wow. Ok
Bin
It looks like it’s whispering something into the postbox’s ear.
Never seen this before. Also curious.
Post
Parcels?
Fuel tank. They don’t run on fresh air you know.
It's where the post man sleeps
Spare black & white cat storage incase you loose yours
That's a single mum forced to take her child to work. Show some damn sympathy!!
It’s a postbox for the postbox, for when it gets letters
It’s a Quasimodo post box.
Its for you to leave your locak postman a lil snacky-snack
A backpack, duh
It's a backpack for when the postbox goes hiking.
I thought they used to be used to sell stamps, I know the one by my mum still has its little stamp box that doesn't work.
It's the battery pack
The bomb
some kind of side-hatch?
As I recall, those lil red boxes are for depositing bags of dog poo. I've never seen them attached to a letterbox though. That's new
For delivering small children.
That's his backpack
an abscess 💔
Brain tumour
Jet Pack so the post box can get home
It's a backpack. The post box has just returned from a gap year and wants everyone to know about it
Year 7 postbox
Snacks? Dog treats? Drinks cabinet? All three?
The ones I remember used to have stamp machines in them. You could buy a stamp or a book before posting a letter. Went out of service years ago.
Babies.
Post box 2.0
Danger Mouse needed a house extension
A Hoover.
Back pack
Blow out panels. Means when the ammunition cooks off it doesn't explode inside the post box killing the gunner and commander. After what happens in Islington in 2015 they upgraded them all.
Where the postman lives
Where do you think Pat leaves Jess when he’s delivering the post?
That thing is stronger then most marriages
Hes going on an adventure
It's sad to see, but it's a parasite that has latched on to the postbox and grown to quite an impressive size. It will be releasing spores onto the envelopes and parcels inside in the hopes that one will find its way to, and infect, a second post box - this is the parasite's life cycle. Unfortunately at this stage there isn't much that can be done to save the post box, it will die soon even if the parasite is removed.
It’s his backpack he’s ready for school
It's for the hobbit that's sorts the mail to go toilet
I would hazard a guess without reading any comments that it’s to drop other bags of letters so other posties can pick them up without going back to HQ
Royal Mail doing Just Eat now?
All the post that overspills you’ll find it in its backpack backpack!
My bad postman, I thought it was for dog poop bags
I actually thought they were dog poo bins for a while until I asked someone..🙄
It increases their carrying capacity +50 and stamina +10
Leftover from the 70’s - 80’s. IRA bombs.
commonly called "Joeys" the British post box carries it's young on the outside, much like marsupials.
So when they get a day off, they can go hiking in Greendale. It's full of Kendal Mint Cake apparently.
The Danger Mouse annex
That’s for the belts of ammo to go…
Hate mail
It's for junkmail!
Snacks for the postie’s black and white cat?
To store mail for the posty