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Having "issues" with the postman - either he is damaging mail and blaming it on the dog... or is antagonising the dog to damage it for him. No idea why, but there is only one postman whom we have issues with and it all kicked off about a month ago.
Can't afford to buy a CCTV set up at the moment so just wondering if there is anyone in the South Cumbria/North Lancashire area with one I could borrow for a couple of weeks to find out what is going on and take appropriate action.
The Royal Mail are being no use with their local manager offering very little in the way of resolution - she seems to be more on the posties side than finding out what the hell is going on.
Videos posted on YouTube or this thread is useless.
Can you not just stop the dog from being near the letter box for a few mornings and see if its still the same? Or put one of those cage thingys on the door.
Could you not just make sure the dog hasn't got access to the post?
If postman doesn't know so much the better in terms of finger pointing but separatign dog and post probably best in any case?
Hide in the bin
put bin somewhere near the door.
lol - if I could get hold of a CCTV set up that could be arranged. We think he is stabbing them with a pen and biting them himself (very human like teeth marks).
We can't get the dog to bite anything we wave at him, the free papers are never damaged and when anyone else is delivering the mail it isn't damaged so there is something odd going on!
Cue postie going to stash parcel in bin. Finds you hiding in it. Goes on PostieTrackWorld to tell everyone about the weirdo hiding and w*nking in the bin.
I have debated hiding in my car with a telephoto lens (parked over the road) - alas I have work to do so can't spend all day waiting for him to show up!
banks...you'd be better off moving the bin before you got in it!
South Cumbria? Sounds like a case for the ace reporters from the Wezzie Gezzie...
buy cctv from aldi use then take back to aldi
Ha, which postie is it? I know a couple of the Ulverston ones.
just when you think the internet has nothing left to offer you..
This thread appears.
DNA test the mail for human saliva?
you think that the postie is biting your mail? 😯
We can't get the dog to bite anything we wave at him
while standing in front of him, in the house?
Perhaps try getting a stranger to drop a letter through the box and see what happens.
Do you have a porch? tape up letterbox and leave a note asking postie to drop mail on floor/in a mailbox. or get a wire box that fits behind the letter box to catch the mail and stop fido getting his teeth into it.
Order a bulk package of that dye that dentists use and insist it's poorly packaged...
You could try this (or something similar). [url= https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pas.webcam ]IP Webcam[/url]
I stick an old phone in the window and then access the video feed on my tablet/PC in order to see when someone is knocking at the door. Works a treat. The video stream can be accessed in Chrome or set to create a log file (MP4 I think). Hope this helps 🙂 Good luck
Which office?it might be me!.We are unable to put our fingers through flaps we have posting pegs but they are bloody useless , is your draught excluder causing problems? been nipped a few times by the silent but nasty dogs and depending what mood I,m in I will forget to let go of the mail! 😉
Get a box or grow some and talk to the postman we usually deliver : the same time!
What about something like a Veho Muvi?
Cheap and very discreet could be hidden somewhere out of sight?
Dogs don't like tomatoes, so get the postie to conceal all your letters inside a large 'devil's testicle'.
Gaffer tape a box behind the letterbox if you can't get a wire basket thingy..
And make sure it's not the dog by posting something while no one is in the house, go out for a bit and try posting something before you go back in, it might not do it while your there, only while you're out,
Dogs can be sly gits sometimes..
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Class, that made me laugh.
Can't you put some form of 'door' arrangement between the dog and the front door?
Would be proper amusing if you did that and the "dog" still bit them.
I'd do as Cougar says, put a temporary barrier between the door and dog, so the dog can't get near the letter box and leaves the letter box unchanged, then see if anything happens to the mail 😉
It's not you Postierich - we are in Ulverston!
We have spoken to him - he got confrontational.
The draught excluder was removed (after the same postie wrecked it - none of the previous ones had any issues). The dog just barks a lot, no aggressive growling - just barking.
Been trying to construct some kind of a barrier/catcher arrangement - I just can't work out how no one else manages to get the mail/menus/free papers destroyed, just this one man. Today we had a small christmas card with holes in it, the only way he could have got the dog to bite that was if he held it and waggled it about for him.
We tried sneaking up to the door and posting - the dog just barks and runs around a lot! Will try it again shortly.
Dogs don't like tomatoes, so get the postie to conceal all your letters inside a large 'devil's testicle'.
Mine does, ate a jar of Dijon mustard last week though, so he might not be normal.
Only thing he doesn't eat are mushrooms and cucumber.
Laughing at the idea of you sneaking up to your own front door to confuse your dog...in order to catch a deranged postie who likes snacking on your mail!
I think the 'Oscar' approach is the only possible answer.
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Personally I would go talk to the delivery office manager (dom) and if that fails then go to area manager. Unfortunately some of the posties we work with are just muppets with little likeability and less people skills than half a dead haddock. But that can also be said of some people I have delivered to as well!
The other thing, of course, would be to [i]tell [/i]him you'd isolated the dog and ask how he explained the bites...
Personally I would go talk to the delivery office manager
If he's doing this with you he's surely doing it with others. Once several similar reports have come rolling in, it should be fairly apparent as to what's going on.
Make sure you are taking lots of photos of how the mail arrives also.
Bonus point for including cute looking dog with an expression saying "wasnt meeeee" in the background.
Hopefully there's a "PostieShaming" website you can put the resulting video captures on.
Like this but for RM staff...
[url= http://www.dogshaming.com/ ]http://www.dogshaming.com/[/url]
Jeremey Paxman was oh so wrong about the use of the internet, (google it) so glad this post has poped up to prove him wrong.
I'm siding with the postman on this one.
You have tried googling before embarking on the CCTV approach I take it?
First search
http://www.otsnews.co.uk/tips-to-prevent-dog-attacks-on-postmen-and-women/
Yes - but as I have already said - no one else EVER has a problem posting things through the letter box. Even the paper boy manages to pop the free paper through the door (alas that never gets molested).
Unless my dog has taken a strange and deranged craving for the taste of Christmas cards, Singletrack World, Nikon Professional and my tax disc then I can't see any explanation. A different postie was on over the weekend and early part of this week - nothing had bite marks into it. Evil Postie was on today again, one mangled Christmas card! What gets me is that this card was about 6cm square - you can't dangle it through the box and by the time it has hit the ground there is no way the dog could get hold of it to munch on it... unless it was held by fingertips and waggled for a good while to give pooch time to get over and his jaws on it.
I am looking into taking some precautions (the box behind the front door option is proving a bit problematic since there is no space).
Capt' postie
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Maybe he is a blind postie and gets his mate to push it through the postbox?
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Laptop webcam?
Ah well, if your issue of Singletrack got damaged this is actually quite a serious matter.....
Quite literally, Post Of The Year. IGMC
If you're not around to see what is happening, how can you tell that you have a single rabid postie on your hands and not a randomly post munching dog ?
Got a friend with a gopro ?
Sorry - what possible motive would your postman have for sticking a pen through your mail and then chewing it?
Do you think he is checking for food?
Try posting a poorly-packaged bike shock and see if it explodes in his face.
Does your postie look like this?
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Try posting a poorly-packaged bike shock and see if it explodes in his face.
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lol - we had a disagreement when he bust a draft excluder which had been in place for months before he started, subsequent to which the "dog" mysteriously decided to savage the post he, and only he, posted through the door.
When we are in we can tell it is him as he bangs about the letterbox like a deranged loon, but we haven't caught him (or the dog) in the act. But if it was the dog then surely he would be munching all the post and junk that comes through!
The finest one was a card that was so small that it wouldn't actually be possible to hold it with any part dangling through the inside of the letterbox. That was the one which had mysteriously human shaped tooth imprints in it. After we showed that to the manager at the post office the subsequent post had holes through that at first glance would appear to be canine teeth, but on closer inspection the holes are too big (about biro size) and about 10mm too wide apart to be from the pooch.
All this leads me to conclude that the postie is pissed off at us about the draft excluder, or dislikes our dog barking at him and has decided to retaliate like a schoolboy with a low IQ. (Previous postie woman told the dog to stop being so pathetic and gave him a pat once and became "best friend number 107" as a result - he is not a savage finger or post chewing beast, more a soft old man dog with a lot of barking to be done before his time is up).
Life is too short.
That is all I have left to say
Mail yourself some Picolax! 😆
For all the jokes in this thread, if it is bothering you that much why not take a couple of days holiday from work and sit in the car with a camera as suggested.
As daft as it sounds it is probably a lot easier than messing around with a video camera on the outside of the house.
Or send yourself a SAE with 'Please do not chew my f***ing email' in maker pen all over it 😉
Perhaps postie likes to snack on bacon frazzles, meat, or something else which makes the letters smell like dog food? Doesn't explain human teeth marks or Biro holes admittedly!
If you can borrow/buy a cheap webcam and have access to a pc or laptop there are various bits of software which let you use them as security cams I think. I've never actually used one but something like [url= http://www.ispyconnect.com ]this[/url] might do it? You'd probably need to set it up inside but that should be enough to see if the dog is the culprit or not...
Send yourself some coarse ground glass, in a flimsy envelope.
Coat outside of envelope with scotch bonnet chilli. And smeg.
OP, leave dog with relatives/friends during the day and see if the mail is still getting chewed.
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If you put all your pieces of mail togther and the bite marks spell out 'help' I'd reckon he has a abductee in his van. Possibly the last man to query his postying?
I have a few questions, forgive me if they have already been asked.
1, Is this for real? (don't bother answering if not)
2, How do you know it's just this postman if you're not in when the post is delivered?
3, Assuming it is always the same postman, could it be the dog doesn't like something about this guy and therefore it is the only time he feels the need to attack the post as it's delivered by the nasty postie?
This thread needs Picolax - a letter doped with it 😀
He probably whistles. That drives me mad, can't say I blame The Dog for wanting to wreck his stuff. You are lucky you don't have a cat, they show their displeasure by peeing on peoples things.
P.S - if it wasn't on STW I would say that you sound VERY paranoid "my postie is biting the mail before he posts it" I would be careful of mentioning this in front of normal same human beings with the power of rational thinking.
the SJ1000 action camera (about 55 quid on amazon) apparently (from reviews and desciptions not personal experience) has a motion sensor ie. will start recording when it detects movement.
and after youve captured the guilty party you can use it as, well, an action camera.
Send yourself some coarse ground glass, in a flimsy envelope.Coat outside of envelope with scotch bonnet chilli. And smeg.
Actual LOL
Send yourself some coarse ground glass, in a flimsy envelope.
Coat outside of envelope with scotch bonnet chilli. And smeg.
Actual LOL
If you do this make sure to coat it with the chilli [u]after[/u] you wipe anything else on the envelope
No use complaining to manager at a local level as they rarely do anything about it. Use the online complaints system, that way customer service make them do something about it an hassle the managers until resolved
Those £10 eBay cams are sound-activated. Got to be worth a pop...
[url= http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Best-Gadget-Mini-DV-Spy-Camera-USB-Rechargeable-Sports-Action-DV-Cam-Gift-for-hi-/161119028060?pt=UK_AudioTVElectronics_Video_Camcorders&hash=item258371435c ]Well, £14 on eBay...[/url]
Maybe your postman is just hungry.
Try leaving him out some steak?
I don't have a dog, but can't you just make sure the dog does not have access to the front door when the mail is delivered? Just put him in a different room and shut the door? Or am I missing something here? If it was my house I would simply out the dog in either the kitchen or lounge or dining room and shut the door..... Perhaps I really am missing something.
Or just get the dog to stay with a friend for a day and see what happens to the mail.
I don't have a dog, but can't you just make sure the dog does not have access to the front door when the mail is delivered? Just put him in a different room and shut the door? Or am I missing something here? If it was my house I would simply put the dog in either the kitchen or lounge or dining room and shut the door..... Perhaps I really am missing something
That makes sense. Doesn't everyone do that if they own a dog, and if not, why not?????
How did the postman damage the draft excluder?
Are they not kept inside the door? it's just a long pillow basically, how can it be damaged.... My head hurts.
As if the guy is biting your post. I mean, really?
How did the postman damage the draft excluder?
Are they not kept inside the door? it's just a long pillow basically, how can it be damaged.... My head hurts.
letter box draft excluder.
If you do this make sure to coat it with the chilli after you wipe anything else on the envelope
There speaks the voice of experience.
OP: Can you describe the appearance of the suspect, please? I work close to the depot and also know of a few posties. The type of behaviour you describe would not be entirely surprising if one of the guys I have in mind are responsible for delivering your mail.
feed the postie!!! maybe a few mince pies on the doorstep, we have bigger rounds these days!
Stevestunts - does the postie you have in mind look a bit ruff then?