On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 10:18:56 -0400, "Jonathan N. Little"
wrote:

Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:
On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 20:38:46 -0400, "Jonathan N. Little"
wrote:

Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
On Fri, 05 Oct 2018 14:47:48 +0100, Jonathan N. Little
wrote:

Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
Anyway the postman's job is to deliver your mail to YOU, not something
200 yards away.

Obviously you have no concept of rural.

It's still their job.* We have rural in Scotland, but the postman drives
to your door.

They drive to my door when I have a pickup or delivery too large for the
box. But even in "rural" UK folks tend to cluster in villages. It not
like that in USA. I'm in the county and not in an incorporated town or
village.

The "cluster" I live in only has 8 houses but then that cluster is in
a bigger cluster that could be described as a village. Years ago I
lived in a house that was out in the country but I had to have a car
or walk about a mile to the nearest shop. I gave up driving a few
years ago. I now get a weekly delivery of everything I need. The cost
of delivery is £3 a week.


It's a 37 mile round trip for me to get to a grocery store, and I am in
the more "compact" eastern part of the country. Out west rural is much
more spread out.

I just phone my order to some huge store in the next town. The
delivery van drivers take round trips to lots of houses. I'm on one of
the Wednesday morning delivery rounds so the cost is very low so
that's the day I pick. Shopping by telephone is very common in the UK.

Steve

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