{"id":135,"date":"2025-08-27T05:49:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T05:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmeacock.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=135"},"modified":"2025-08-29T22:58:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T22:58:54","slug":"more-about-postie-mate","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.postiemate.com\/index.php\/more-about-postie-mate\/","title":{"rendered":"More about Postie Mate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Postie MateTM<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0is the UK Registered Design No. 4044792 Personal Protection Device (\u201cPPD\u201d) which enables the safe delivery of leaflets, mail and A5 size magazines through letterboxes. \u00a0A Patent is pending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only by using <em>Postie Mate<sup>TM<\/sup><\/em> will items to be delivered land flat unfolded, in pristine condition \u2013 even through two sets of letterbox draught excluder bristles &#8211;\u00a0making their intended impact within a few seconds of viewing. \u00a0<em>Postie Mate<sup>TM<\/sup><\/em>\u00a0can speed up leaflet delivery, as compared with delivery solely by hand or any other means, by up to 50%. \u00a0By taking away the need to put hands through a letterbox to deliver items, \u00a0<em>Postie Mate<sup>TM<\/sup><\/em>\u00a0thereby prevents dog bitten and\/or lost fingers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apart from being a professional musician, as detailed on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmeacock.com\">www.davidmeacock.com<\/a> website, David Meacock was also a local councillor from 1999-2015. On 21 May 2014 he was bitten by a dog while delivering political leaflets. \u00a0Having played\u00a0<strong>Beethoven\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0Third Piano Concerto two months earlier in St James\u2019, Piccadilly, London his injury resulted in him being unable to play the piano for six months as a result of temporarily losing his entire RH index finger nail. \u00a0He considered that he could not take the risk of the same or worse incident happening again in the future, yet he could not stop delivering leaflets to advertise his and his wife\u2019s piano teaching and nor did he wish to have to cease his participation in politics by being unable to deliver leaflets as this is an important part of campaigning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After his accident, David researched to see whether there was already any device which would allow for easy safe delivery but only found one in common use which being small and very fiddly he dismissed as unworkable for mass deliveries. &nbsp;It would not facilitate the delivery of items undamaged through letterboxes fitted with one or two sets of draught excluder bristles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While sitting with his bitten hand above his head to hasten swelling reduction, David invented\u00a0<em>Postie Mate<em><sup>TM<\/sup><\/em><\/em>. Delivering 15,000 leaflets with the two prototypes he made \u2013 one of which is pictured here, to show how it is used, either with one or two hands as the operator chooses &#8211;\u00a0and a successful trial of\u00a0<em>Mini Postie Mate<em><sup>TM<\/sup><\/em><\/em>\u00a0with Parcelforce, gave David enough confidence to transfer the design to plastic to enable everyone to benefit from safe delivery of everything from leaflets to magazines, without the risk of life-changing injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmeacock.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/wpb32187de_06.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-116\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmeacock.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/wpc39d9c4d_06.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-119\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the meantime, having had a ruler snatched from her hand by a dog, (which due to a special design feature would not happen with&nbsp;<em>Postie MateTM<\/em>) Kate, David\u2019s wife, has vowed never to deliver another leaflet again without&nbsp;<em>Postie MateTM<\/em>&nbsp;and so David and Kate hope for your own safety, you will now do the same. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The risk of losing a finger as has been reported in the media just isn\u2019t worth it. &nbsp;Be protected and as a bonus, make your deliveries more easily and quicker.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Postie MateTM\u00a0\u00a0is the UK Registered Design No. 4044792 Personal Protection Device (\u201cPPD\u201d) which enables the safe delivery of leaflets, mail and A5 size magazines through letterboxes. \u00a0A Patent is pending. 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