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Had a good quick chat to my nephew, Brendan who was a postal mail deliverer full time for about three years.
Brendan says that the most convenient, efficient, effective and speedy way to put mail in a lidded door slot for a busy postie is to feed the mail through with your hand also going through the slot. Some quite deliberate force is required with some lidded door slots and some have springs on them which also require a greater physical effort by the postie. And if we are talking about a female postie, then she will need to be even more assertive in inserting mail into the slot than would a male. So as a matter of course, a postie puts there hand through the slot in the door in delivering mail - one letter or a bunch and even if the slot is not lidded. By the way, Brendan has had his hand jammed in a springed lid of a mail slot in a front door. The Post Office had to tell the home owner to make the slot safer for their mail people.
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