Do you speak to your postman?

 
It was raining badly today and I was bored out of my mind with nothing to do in the house. I was thinking about the poor postman and how he/she can’t stay inside his/her house because he/she has a job of delivering my mail….

I then realised I don’t even know what my postman looks like, let alone who he/she is. This bothered me a little bit. A person who does me such a great service…. and I haven’t bothered to give them the time of day for a ‘hello’ or a ‘goodbye’ or a ‘thanks for my mail’. I’m sure I’m not the only one guilty of taking our postmen for granted, so I decided to take my boredom and turn it into ‘getting to know my postman’.

The biggest problem was that it was raining and I didn’t know what time the postman actually came so I decided to write him/her a letter and leave it dangling outside the letter box labeled to a ‘MR POSTMAN’ (how appropriate).   The letter is just an initial door into a long and wonderful friendship with my postman (I am hoping).

I am planning to continue getting to know Mr. Postman over a period of time via notes left in the letterbox. If this works, I urge everyone to look into their inner humanitarian side and stop neglecting our postmen.

So my first letter looked like this:

I have no idea if he/she is willing to comply. I don’t even know if he/she saw my note or came today. I got distracted… but still, If I can get a smile out of Mr. Postman, then my job is done.

Hopefully if all goes to plan and I have a Postman that has a personality  (if they recruit postmen like bus drivers I don’t think I have a very good chance) he/she will read my next letter and interact with me:

 If I can make Mr. Postman’s life that little bit better, why not try right?