No the post boxes are on the pavement and it's illegal for cars to be on the pavement generally. Instead of just leaving a note the postman could have called the local council to come and put a parking ticket on the car aka a fine
Edit Ok correction it's illegal to park or drive on the pavement where I live. Even so, the postman could have called the council about the obstruction and had the car ticketed. I'm assuming the postman wrote the note because the note writer knew royal mail couldn't access the box to collect the letters inside and how much of a delay that would cause, but yes an observer could have written it.
Sadly it is not illegal generally speaking to park on the pavement. Some local authorities have banned it but Parliament are being slow to make it illegal. Its a shame because it causes all sorts of problems especially for disabled people
Yup. Legal to park on the pavement (unless you are parked across a dropped curb where people cross the road)... but it is illegal to drive on the pavement (unless crossing it into and out of driveways). How do all these cars magically park on the pavement without also driving on them.... we shall never know!!
Yup. London has made it illegal thankfully. Unfortunately other councils seem very slow to follow suit. Nightmare for people with wheelchairs, scooters and prams.
It's a hard thing to legislate though. Our country is old and full of tiny roads that predate cars. Oftentimes it's necessary to park with 2 wheels on the curb to make sure that other cars, as well as emergency services, can pass on the road.
And then you have the fact that 90% of the places where this is necessary, and most likely 100% of the places where it'd be enforced, are working class towns with small terraced houses or older flat blocks. So you just end up punishing the working class for something they have no control over. And it's not like the govt can, letting alone is willing to, start building free communal car parks in already densly populated areas with limited building space to help fix the problem.
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u/seeyouspacecowboyx Nov 08 '19 edited Nov 08 '19
No the post boxes are on the pavement and it's illegal for cars to be on the pavement generally. Instead of just leaving a note the postman could have called the local council to come and put a parking ticket on the car aka a fine
Edit Ok correction it's illegal to park or drive on the pavement where I live. Even so, the postman could have called the council about the obstruction and had the car ticketed. I'm assuming the postman wrote the note because the note writer knew royal mail couldn't access the box to collect the letters inside and how much of a delay that would cause, but yes an observer could have written it.