I can't vouch for all postmen (or women), but the one we know gets up about 4.00am to go into work, sometimes he doesn't finish until 3.00pm. I suspect the reason we have less deliveries nowadays has more to do with cost cutting, such as having less people on the streets delivering. In my street alone there have been a dozen or more new houses built, and there is a brand new mini estate just around the corner, however there's still the one postman having to fit these extra addresses into his route.
It is annoying that some postal workers don't have a lot of common sense, I remember one many years ago leaving a package of photos on my doorstep, thankfully I hadn't left for work yet, and discovered them before they got rained on and ruined. That was back in the days of rolls of film, so the negatives would probably have got spoilt as well and I'd have had no digital back up.
Anita, how come you've received your Journal - sounds like favouritism to me.
