{"id":12742,"date":"2023-01-04T18:52:22","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T17:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=12742"},"modified":"2023-01-04T18:52:30","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T17:52:30","slug":"letterboxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=12742","title":{"rendered":"Letterboxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"5\" \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;\"><strong>LETTERBOXES <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;\"><strong>When did you last test your letterbox?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>It is surprising how difficult it is to use some house-hold letter boxes. Some have springs that will take your fingers off if you are not careful, draft protec-tors which are almost impossible to push items through, boxes mounted so high on an external wall you almost need a step ladder to use. A household pet that snatches the item from you and your fingers if not smartly removed.<\/p>\n<p>Why not test your box NOW. Take this magazine and go and post it through your letter box. Was it easy to post? Try it again; maybe you were lucky the first time. While you are there try a single piece of paper, a real test for any box. If there was no problem &#8211; congratulations. If you did hit a snag try and resolve it for the sake of all the people who have to make use of it. Think of your postman, your What\u2019s On magazine deliverer etc.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"5\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LETTERBOXES When did you last test your letterbox? It is surprising how difficult it is to use some house-hold letter boxes. Some have springs that will take your fingers off if you are not careful, draft protec-tors which are almost impossible to push items through, boxes mounted so high on an external wall you almost need a step ladder to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[334],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6cWjO-3jw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15635,"url":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=15635","url_meta":{"origin":12742,"position":0},"title":"All This Sunshine!! 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