Hints on using Postie MateTM

Postie MateTM is very easy to use, as the overwhelming majority of letterboxes are full width and horizontal.  Here are a few hints to get you hitting the ground running!

• Carry most leaflets in a shoulder bag and few in your LH fingers 3, 4 & 5.
• Load your Postie MateTM  (held with RH  fingers 3, 4 & 5) using thumb & index fingers to feed, as you walk up the drive so as not to waste time doing so at the door standing still.  If there’s a dog you may well have made your delivery so quickly that you’ll be halfway back down the drive before the dog even makes it to the front door!
• When withdrawing Postie MateTM  from the letterbox, keep the handle higher than what I call the ‘front fingers’ of Postie MateTM to both tip your delivery out and ease withdrawal of Postie MateTM out of the letterbox
• Modern upright letterboxes: use Postie MateTM  on its side, again keeping the handle higher than the front fingers to tip your leaflet/magazine item out.  Again, keep the back of Postie MateTM close to the flap to facilitate withdrawal .
• If the letterbox is too narrow to put Postie MateTM into, push it open as close to the hinge as possible - to maximise the opening - with one of the front fingers of Postie MateTM .  As these letterboxes tend to be older, there usually won’t be any bristles and so the leaflet can be pushed through the resulting gap, either rolled or gently folded.  Hopefully people with such undersize letterboxes will likely be unfolding most of their post, so they’ll be inclined to do the same for yours too!
• If a dog grabs your Postie MateTM, you might be able to push and pull as if playing a game of tug of war with the dog and eventually it’ll let go.  If you sense you’re about to potentially lose your Postie MateTM , push the handle down so as to lock the square front end of the handle on the underside of the blade against the front of the letterbox.  This will prevent Postie MateTM  from being pulled through.  The chances are the dog will have to let go to breathe at some point, and sensing it doing so you’ll be able to withdraw Postie MateTM  for your next delivery - very glad you hadn’t put your fingers through the letterbox!

Happy, safe and efficient delivering!

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