I'VE BEEN POSTING MY LETTERS IN THE DOG POO BOX FOR TWO YEAR

[TrueBlueTerrier]

I’VE BEEN POSTING MY LETTERS IN THE DOG POO BOX FOR TWO YEARS!

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WHEN short-sighted pensioner Alf Spence tottered down to his local postbox to send a card, he hoped he hadn’t missed the last collection.

But as he popped the envelope through the little slot a concerned passerby looked at him with a stunned expression.

The Good Samaritan tapped befuddled Alf, 91, on the shoulder and explained to him that he wasn’t stood in front of a postbox but had in fact posted his great-grandson’s birthday card into a council DOG POO waste bin!

STEAMING

Partially-blind Alf, of Bedale, North Yorks, is now facing up to the fact he’s been “posting” his letters, cards and competition entries into a box of steaming pooch turd for the past TWO YEARS! The World War II veteran, who was part of the ill-fated Dieppe Raid in 1942, told Sunday Sport: “I walked down to the postbox, like I do every week, and began placing our Tommy’s third birthday card in the little slot.

“A woman walking her dog came up to me, tapped me on the shoulder, and asked what I was doing.

“I thought she was going to cry when I told her. She held my hand and pointed out that the postbox was on the other side of the road.

“I’ve not got the best eyesight these days but even so, the postbox and the dog dirt box are almost identical. They’re both red, the same shape and stuck on a post.

“I bet I’m not the only pensioner to get confused. The bloody council should never have put them so close together.”

Alf has since contacted Royal Mail telling them to cancel their investigation into the hundreds of missing letters and parcels he’s sent over the last two years.

The widower, who lost his wife Betsie to the sea in 1989, said: “I accused them of losing my post, saying their service was rubbish. I now owe them an apology.”

Alf ’s daughter Susan May, 59, told Sunday Sport she was relieved the riddle of the missing letters had finally been solved.

The mum of four, from Luton, Beds, said: “Every time I asked dad if he’d remembered one of kids’ birthdays, he’d say, ‘Yes, there’s a cheque in the post’.

“When they never showed up we thought he was either losing his marbles or was just plain lying. “So it’s nice to know he was at least trying, bless him.”

EMPTY

She added: “What I’d like to know is why the people who empty the dog poo box have never wondered why Dad’s letters are in there.

“Surely they could have passed them on to Royal Mail or forwarded them on to the addressees with a letter saying where they were found?”

A source at North Yorkshire District Council confirmed they had erected the red dog waste bins in June 2009 –– around the time when Alf’s mail started mysteriously ‘disappearing’.

[resperin]

“I’ve not got the best eyesight these days but even so, the postbox and the dog dirt box are almost identical. They’re both red, the same shape and stuck on a post.


i'm pretty sure hes referring to a pouch box

[TrueBlueTerrier]

“I’ve not got the best eyesight these days but even so, the postbox and the dog dirt box are almost identical. They’re both red, the same shape and stuck on a post.


i'm pretty sure hes referring to a pouch box

No its a Pillar Box - you can see it in the background of the photo that was at the original link. I thik most pouch boxes are lower to the ground than this one.

[happyhippo]

"She added: “What I’d like to know is why the people who empty the dog poo box have never wondered why Dad’s letters are in there.

“Surely they could have passed them on to Royal Mail or forwarded them on to the addressees with a letter saying where they were found?”



I have to deliver enough crap mail without it being covered in actual crap, the recipient would think we are making a messy protest posting crap through the letter box. Still i feel sorry for the old guy at least he apologised for accusing us of stealing his post.

[Royal_Fail]

That site also has pictures of semi naked girls

[scoobydo79]

Does the woman really think any one wants to handle the letters after they have been thrown in with the dog shite!!!!!!!

[brothermagrew]

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[Straight4ward]

This is the Sunday Sport, ffs.
The "paper" that brought us stories of double-decker buses on the moon and sightings of Lord Lucan riding Shergar!

Take it all with a very large pinch of salt.

[Pat Ostman]

The smell as he opened the box should have given it away.

Then again, in some areas....

“I accused them of losing my post, saying their service was rubbish. I now owe them an apology.”

Very few people would bother so spot on.

Then again, it is the Sunday Sport here...

[red1968]

Most good dog owners would put the doggy doo doo in a small poo bag so the letters would possibly never get covered in crap.

[Pat Ostman]

Yeah problem is the bags 'sweat' If letters were in the doggie bin after only a few days they would stink and be soggy!

ugh god, enough now!

[arnold cheshire]

he should have taken his door to doors to be put in the dog mess bin