Bear prevents postal delivery

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http://metro.co.uk/2014/09/26/best-excu ... r-4882404/

Most of the time, posties don’t get much sympathy when they deliver a red delivery notice instead of a parcel – but a Canadian postie has ignited a wave of sympathy after he was scared off by a bear.

Twitter user Matthew Fane shared an image of a Canada Post ‘red slip’ notice this week, which listed the reason for the failed delivery with a hastily-scribbled, ‘Bear at door’.

Fane lives in British Columbia, host to much of Canada’s populations of black and grizzly bears. Both species have been linked to fatal attacks on humans