Wednesday, 2 October 2013

Impersonating Postman Pat ... Tuesday 1st Oct

Autumn is well and truly with us as the leaves fall from the trees and in the Perry house we put on the heating. If only for an hour, in the evening. Given the price of fuel I expect we might be wearing more to keep warm this winter.

Last year I delivered Electoral Registration letters for the local council, and on Monday I collected this year’s first batch. I then take them home, and lay them out on the front room floor as a map so I can easily pick up the ones I want when I go out. I start with two hours delivering this afternoon. It’s easier to deliver in the daylight. I decide to start with the least salubrious area I have. At least that way I get it out of the way, not that it is really that bad. To be honest it is an easy section to do because a lot of the front doors are only two steps off the pavement, and so I get around it quite quickly. Where you have supposedly better class areas, the drives are longer and the houses are more spread out, and so it takes a lot longer to do. That theory is fine until you come to the third round of deliveries, where after two nil responses you have to knock on doors, and confirm who lives there. Then you might prefer a better area.

Yours Postman Pat.

Jay

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