Letter boxes trap more than politicians’ fingers

LETTER boxes have an importance not often attributed to them. I know because for my pending third election campaign, I have learned a lot about letter boxes.

There is an amazing variety of boxes and an equally bewildering array of brushes and yokes that folk fit on the inside to keep out draughts and to amputate the fingers of post workers and politicians’ fingers.

I have just come back from a merry jaunt around an estate in Waterford city. This estate is idiosyncratic because many of the front doors are really at the back, if you know what I mean. What a waste of time for those who deliver mail.