Low Level Letterboxes - Do You Have One?

My Dad was a Postman years ago . He often complained about the low level letter boxes.

They are a pain which I found out delivering papers many years ago. Be kind to posties 😃

My neighbours have one and very occasionally I have to post misdirected mail into it .
I feel so sorry for the postman .
It's awkward to access .

I used to deliver the local free papers and always dreaded these. I agree there needs to be a height restriction on letter boxes.

Three houses ago we acquired a low level one when we bought the house. Our cat used to use it as a cat flap, so it got stuck in the porch and nearly died from heatstroke.

They should be banned.

Can’t stand them, eventually delivering leaflets I passed them by. They should be banned.

I deliver leaflets every year for a local charity event and haven’t come across many low level ones. I’d be wary of snapping teeth at the other side, but that’s not such a problem since I discovered the art of poking the leaflets through with a stick.

My favourite people are those who have a little letter box by their front gate.

Yep-I leanred this in my leaflet delivery days. I recently had a new front door and made sure the letter box was mid-height and wouldn't make life difficult for posties. The letter box is the biggest I could have too, and doesn't have those annoying brush things lining it either...

My tip, when delivering leaflets - take a ruler, fold leaflet over ruler then push it through the letterbox. NB. keep hold of the ruler😂
In our village it’s not only low level boxes, sometimes it’s takes ages to discover where post is supposed to be left. One of my neighbours has a brick pillar by the back door.

Don't like letter boxes in doors. Did have one in my old house half way up the door. When I replaced the door here it was the old wooden one from the 70's ,had a solid door with coloured glass so I could see who was outside . Have a large post box on my wall near the door at height so no bending down for posties has wide slit and sloping lid .

When we changed our front door a couple of years ago we changed to no integral letterbox and have a box similar to yours Wiff.

I don’t get why they are designed like that. I had one on my cottage door, it used to rattle & open in the wind. Apart from the postie bending down ( I never really thought about that, being young & fit) but more worried about rats getting in as I lived near a river. Blanked it off & had a post box put higher up the door as it was wood back in the day.

We don’t get letters delivered to the door, never have. We have a postbox at the top of the front garden which is normal in Australia. Usually they are waist height. Much better for the posties who mostly have motorbikes and don’t have to actually dismount, just post and ride on. The only things that we get delivered to the doorstep are parcels where they leave stuff in the porch. Lucky for us we live in a safe area so no issues.

I used to deliver the Xmas post when I was a student and always hated one particular house which had a glass front door with a floor level letterbox and a Rottweiler who would hurl himself at the door when I bent down to deliver Xmas cards. Very scary!!!

I live an apartment where the letters are delivered to the door by the postperson. However every single apartment, all 200 odd of them have the same front door with a low level letter box. What were they thinking of when they installed them! But then the developers were Carillion and look what happened to them. I think that if I was a postie here I would refuse to deliver any more and insist that perhaps post boxes were installed on each floor one for each apartment. Parcels are left in the concierge's office.

we had a new front door fitted with a low level letter box, and of course it is stiff due to the spring being new, postie is always complaining but I don't know what else to do, if I see him coming I rush to front door to open it save him trying to push mail through cannot afford another new door, did think of getting a mail box style thing for outside but a bit unsure about security i case mail/ parcels get stolen

)They are awful, and most letter boxes now seem to have two scrubbing brushes fitted inside. When I go leafletting I take a ruler or wooden spatula to force leaflets inside, (not fair to leave them hanging outside.

I also deliver leaflets when election time comes around and yes, they are dreadful.
Very difficult to bend down, hold flap open and deliver letters etc.
They should be banned.

Good idea eazybee.
Must remember that tip.

I love the comment about banning them! LOL.
Not sure how that would work…

For CookieMonster, well, if YOU actually bought such a door, that's all on YOU! For your info, a "mail box style thing" is now fitted by many houses, doesn't seem to be an issue for mail being stolen.

And parcels don't actually go in THEM, they are a separate problem, due to opportunistic thieves, compounded by courier drivers who are often several slates short of a full roof.

I'll add to the pretty much universal array of comments on here, I sometimes help deliver the village mag, and I hope the campaign works, the wretched ankle-level boxes may look pretty on some doors, but I've had enough back problems already thanks!

In Denmark, you have had to have a post-box outside your gate, or in the hall of a block of flats since sometime in the 1990s. This was made law to save postmen and women from developing bad backs and having to walk up and down four or five flights of stairs in older buildings that do not have lifts.

From the end of the year, the postal service will no longer handle letters, as so few people send post now that it doesn't pay.

As there is no monopoly any more, some of the parcel companies like GLS and DAO will be willing to convey letters, but probably not to the recipient's address, so only the local newspaper, pizza bakers adverts and election fliers will be shoved into our post boxes, so maybe they will no longer be a legal requirement.

Years ago I helped my aunt deliver charity envelopes to collect the next evening—great fun for a 6-year-old! I know there was one 'posh' house that had the box at floor level; you had to kneel on the quarry tile doorstep to get things through the box. I have no idea why the heck this was the idea of door manufacturers.

My neighbour has one - I really feel sorry for the postman/woman. Why on earth would do door manufacturers do this ? I can’t see any logical reason.