The award-winning Postie Mate has 3 main benefits:
1. Postie Mate totally eliminates the risk of bitten-off finger-tips, by a typically silently-waiting dog, through the letterbox (3 in one case)
2. Postie Mate is the fastest and most efficient means of delivering leaflets – in fact, house to house leafleting is 50% faster, saving 1/3rd of your time. Thus, even at minimum wage rates Postie Mate pays for itself within the first 250 leaflets. On the basis of delivering a 120 rather than only 80 leaflets an hour at the same campaign-sustainable walking pace, you’ll save 21 hours per 5,000 leaflets – surely better used canvassing.
3. Postie Mate is the only way leaflets land pristine, flat on the mat, even through the notoriously difficult to deliver bristles-lined letterboxes – making it more likely to be read than ditched.
See Postie Mate in action here:
Other features:
- One reason Postie Mate is so fast is that with inward-opening letterboxes, if as soon as you’ve made one delivery you load up for the next, you won’t even have to stop at the door, never mind step up onto the doorstep – and you don’t need to use the other hand at all saving blood injuries from the back-lash when an over strongly sprung letter-box flap snaps back quicker than the holding hand can react.
- Letterboxes at the bottom of doors are way easier using Postie Mate – as you don’t have to bend as far down and become completely ‘untucked’ in the process!
- Postie Mate allows you to deliver two leaflets in one go without pre-assembling them: just take one off the top and bottom of your small LH pile, so if for example you have a county council and borough council election together, or a simultaneous Parliamentary and local election, you can easily deliver both leaflets in one operation.
- If a dog bites Postie Mate and tries to pull it through, just quickly push the handle downwards so that the lip at the base of the handle on the underside locks against the lower edge of the letterbox. When the dog has to let go to breathe, you can then quickly raise the handle high as you extract your Postie Mate – thankful you weren’t leafleting bare-handed . . .
- Postie Mate leaves comparatively useless previously existing alternatives in the shade: the Royal Mail’s Postal Peg was never intended for single sheet paper leaflets, but for at least 5 sheets of paper thick single letters and was designed before nowadays widespread inner flaps prevent it working as originally intended. In fact it’s so useless Posties don’t use it, which is why 100’s of them are still being bitten every year through letterboxes. Put your spatula back in your kitchen drawer as it’ll fold the leaflet, esp. when pushed through bristles, making it less attractive and likely to be read and is comparatively slow and fiddly. Why agonise over perfecting your leaflet design, and spend good money on a well-presented leaflet only to yourself ruin its intended initial impact by trying to deliver it with the wrong tool?!
- Because there are thousands of Postie Mates already in use all over the UK, the Election Commission has ruled that your purchase/use of Postie Mate should not be included on the statutory post-election expenses return declaration