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Sorry but there is another side to this. Firstlly, electric bikes and scooters cannot be heard. That can be changed. Secondly, I have seen many posties riding like idiots. So whilst I accept some blame lies with motorists there is also a considerable amount of blame that should. Lie with the posties and Australia Post.

Dear member Zorro56 good morning. Thankyou for your post. Yes I agree with you. We had a postman who would always do wheeles on the back of his motorcycle tyre. Most mornings, neighbours would patiently stand in front of their doorstep, and wait for the postman to entertain them with his Evil Karneval performances. On one occassion, during his wheeles, his bag carrying that had all the mail in it, fell to one side of the motorcycle, which put him off balance, nearly resulting in collision with a neighbours parked car. To cut a long story short, we don't see him anymore, most probably a neighbour made a report regarding his method of riding the motorcycle. But yes, there are some posties who just love their motorcycle more than their job. Have a beautiful afternoon.
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[Ezzy]

Well, if there are a lot of posties as stupid as the one who can't find the large and very visible slot in our mailbox but tries to jam mail into a little crack above it, it's no wonder there are accidents. Maybe Australia Post needs to test their intelligence.
I used to love posties. They were great people. And there are still plenty among them who are wonderful people providing a great service. I applaud those. But really, can't Aust Post do something about the idiot who is causing major problems for us - mail blowing away and getting lost or important documents being damaged? We've made polite requests several times. It's not like the slot is hard to see. The mail box is exactly the same design as the ones you post letters in. Has a generous slot for regular letters, plus a pull down handle for larger items. I can't even begin to imagine why any idiot would try to jam mail into a crack above!!!!

Please excuse me if l misunderstand, but how does a Postie putting your mail into a small crack into your letterbox instead of the large slot equate to accidents?
Is the Postie aware that there is a pull -down handle, which is not a regular attachment to all letterboxes? [Is this chrome perhaps in which case there should be no misunderstanding?].
For many years l delivered the Local Paper & Junk Mail & one thing which was taboo to me was leaving my deliveries hanging out of the letterbox thus preventing the Postie from doing his Important Delivery. I even had a Postie tell me he couldn't even see where l had been. I never found a letterbox where my deliveries would not go entirely into a letterbox. Sometimes this meant not pushing these in at a 90° angle but rather 45° & then push the delivery in.
I always had good service with complaints reported either to Head Office here in W.A. or directly to my Postal Depot from where the Posties sort mail & leave from & return to.