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A fair few worry if a week goes by without a knock on the door or an occasional phone call - even a cold call is sometimes considered better than no contact at all.

Take no notice of me. I know I'm weird - weekends excepted! :-D

Shy, that's difficult for you. You should get a bucket!

Lizxx

When my Dad has to go, he has to go now! So I rarely go because when I do I usually get kicked out. I can spend time in there at around midnight. :-S

Sharron ....


you are not alone!!

I carry the mobile part of our phone (not a cell phone) around the house with me, whether I'm going to the loo, down into the basement, into the kitchen, wherever.

Part of it is to make sure that I do hear it ring, but largely it's because I want to be able to have contact "in case ....."

Rollo posted ..............

In nearly all countries except the UK and ROI mail is delivered into a postbox not through a hole in the door. The postman has a key and can leave small parcels in the box. The UK system was obviously designed by Fagin and his gang.

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we have mail delivery through the door :-D

So do most large cities in Canada

Have had since postal delivery began.

Small towns will have boxes in the local post office.

Canada Post started with multi-box units serving many houses in new developments (area covered = 1 kilometre).

BIG problem in a lot of areas ........... units have to be where people can park their cars, and therefore often where no-one can see them.

Lovely opportunity for thieves, who have taken full advantage. Some of those box units have literally been dragged off their concrete bases and taken away.

The last Federal government decided we should all be changed to box units, and then they could cut the financing given to Canada Post

No-one would have to walk more than 1 km to the nearest box

BIG problems

Find a large enough area in which to place box units for maybe 100 households in the inner city

No place for 2 or 3 cars to park while owners open and clear their boxes

Realise after much protest that a lot of people cannot walk 1 km to and back from their house, and don't have other people to help them.

Oh look ....... there's a piece of grass with a cedar hedge. We'll just cut down the hedge to place the box units. Oh dear, didn't realise that was your garden. Never mind, we're doing this to help you. Court case, trespassing on privately owned ground :-D

The "new" Federal government stopped the program as soon as they came into power in 2015, and are even considering reversing the changes that had already been made ............ much to the delight of the public.


Lesson .............. don't mess with the public! ;-) :-D

Now you see in one way or another you've mentioned the loo a few times and yet this thread isn't RR !!

I like the idea of paying for a box for whatever deliveries you require...that said if the cat is making the deliveries maybe I'd get it delivered to someone else's box :-D

Thank you for the advice, I do appreciate your care but I was not really being very serious.

To be honest, it is more likely that I am too idle to get up and walk to the lav than that I am worried about the courier knocking.

Oh Sharron,
Irrational fears are Classic Anxiety Disorder.

Help is out there.
Ask your GP for a referral for Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)

I am talking from experience.
My daughter suffered from extreme anxiety for most of her young life.
She worried about everything and anything without just cause and was also really afraid of socialising

Through her irrational worries about healthy eating and excercise, she then developed Anorexia
As part of her recovery, programme she received CBT.

She has never looked back and is a very happy, healthy outgoing adult.
Whenever she feels anxious, she uses techniques learned from CBT and it works!
She soon started going out again and even met her soul mate
She got married just over a year ago.!

Please ask your GP about CBT Sharron .

PS: My friend who was widowed more a year ago has just started a course of CBT too.
She says it's really helping
<3 <3 <3

Probably, Sharron :-D :-D :-D
Not sure I'd pay £2 for every dump she did in it, though ;-)

That is a good idea.
Do you think your cat would like a special little mail box to pee in, Maggie?

Another option is to use a mailbox. For private use £2 per item is better than hanging around, courier dumping stuff, visiting depot miles away etc. EBay and others also offer click n collect from Argos and JS.

In nearly all countries except the UK and ROI mail is delivered into a postbox not through a hole in the door. The postman has a key and can leave small parcels in the box. The UK system was obviously designed by Fagin and his gang.

Take heart in the fact that Betty (cat) won't go out to 'toilet' in the rain, unless I'm by the door :-|
If I'm home, and it's raining, she likes to go out the front, (with me stood by the open front door), whilst she pees under the hedge.
This evening, she didn't want to go out the back - or front door (where the top step is usually dry), but would still 'harass' me to let her out.
Eventually, I opened the front door, and 'helped' her out. :-D
I stood, with the front door open, humming to 'console' her.
She took a while to reappear, I looked around the (slightly - nay grossly) overgrown laurel 'bush', to see her on the fence between me and my neighbours - they with the breezeblock 'squares' within which reside a begonia - a garden, for wildlife, made in hell.
As I looked she jumped over.
I slid into the house, and left the front door open for Betty.
Next minute, I heard the cat flap in the back door bang, and Betty came in like a bat out of hell!!!
She - the little whatnot - looked as pleased as punch.
I closed the front door, and consoled myself that she didn't have enough time to poo - she'd just peed over one of their solitary begonias :-D :-D :-D :-D

I find it's am infallible way of getting the expected but late messenger, courier, whatever to arrive! Seriously - as I am too deaf to hear the doorbell I always hang on the door when OH is out a "Please keep knocking" notice. Luckily our door is out of sight of the street, so I also have a notice saying "courier please leave packages on step"when expecting something - (don't say "step" if ordering on line, they don't like it, I say "porch")

I used to keep the dirt box beside the pan so mine would come in and join me.

You're not the only one Sharron - I always look out the bedroom window to check there's no Royal Mail or courier vans in the carpark (to my block of flats) before I head looward - accompanied by two cats who like to supervise procedures, so I guess technically I'm not home alone...

not wanting to make light of your problem Sharron,

but there was a story of a mother complaining to her son that a she hardly hears from him, and that she was wasting away with malnutrition....
why is that ma? he says,
well she replies,
I'm so afraid that I might have a mouthful of food just as you ring up....and I would be unable to speak......but of course, you never do.......

:-D :-D

Never sure, you see.

Sometimes a parcel will come for OH's work which neither of us were aware of.

We used to have a magic pan that made the phone ring as soon as you sat on it too.

When we first had the telephone, early nineties, Fred did not want to answer it so, if I did happen to be in the bog when it rang, and I usually was, he would shout up the stairs totell me the phone was ringing. Maybe he thought I was upstairs searching all over the place to find that ringing noise. I just don't know.

The first question should be Sharron are you actually expecting a delivery? If yes then of course they'll only knock when you finally give in and rush to the loo. If not then yes you're neurotic :-D

Well it does happen .many times have had to put housecoat over wet body as am in the shower when the doorbell rings and have to make a hasty trip down the stairs

They think you are behind the door just waiting for it to ring and are gone in 30 secs if you haven't answered

I take in stuff for my granddaughter as she works full time and it's a pain with Royal Mail getting to their parcel office with restricted opening hours and the problem of identity, even though I can prove who I am and the address they want her identity with two I D,s