{"id":63,"date":"2025-07-21T04:55:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T04:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmeacock.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=63"},"modified":"2025-08-29T22:49:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T22:49:53","slug":"deliver-leaflets-safely","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.postiemate.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Deliver leaflets safely"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmeacock.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Postie-Mate-photo-with-white-background-Aug-2025-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-146 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.postiemate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Postie-Mate-photo-with-white-background-Aug-2025-scaled.jpeg 1920w, https:\/\/www.postiemate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Postie-Mate-photo-with-white-background-Aug-2025-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.postiemate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Postie-Mate-photo-with-white-background-Aug-2025-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.postiemate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Postie-Mate-photo-with-white-background-Aug-2025-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/www.postiemate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Postie-Mate-photo-with-white-background-Aug-2025-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.postiemate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Postie-Mate-photo-with-white-background-Aug-2025-1320x1760.jpeg 1320w, https:\/\/www.postiemate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Postie-Mate-photo-with-white-background-Aug-2025-416x555.jpeg 416w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The award-winning <em>Postie Mate<\/em> has 3 main benefits:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1.<\/strong> <strong><em>Postie Mate<\/em> totally eliminates the risk of bitten-off finger-tips,<\/strong> by a typically silently-waiting dog, through the letterbox (3 in one case)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2. <em>Postie Mate<\/em> is the fastest and most efficient means of delivering leaflets<\/strong> \u2013 in fact, house to house leafleting is 50% faster, saving 1\/3<sup>rd<\/sup> of your time.\u00a0 Thus, even at minimum wage rates <em>Postie Mate<\/em> pays for itself within the first 250 leaflets.\u00a0 On the basis of delivering a 120 rather than only 80 leaflets an hour at the same campaign-sustainable walking pace, you\u2019ll save 21 hours per 5,000 leaflets \u2013 surely better used canvassing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>3.<em> Postie Mate<\/em> is the <em><u>only<\/u><\/em> way leaflets land pristine, flat on the mat, even through the notoriously difficult to deliver bristles-lined letterboxes<\/strong> \u2013 making it more likely to be read than ditched.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">See<strong> <em>Postie Mate<\/em><\/strong> in action here:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lHbD9Z3NXSM?si=-1qDFG0U5-GbWD2r\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other features:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>One reason <em>Postie Mate<\/em> is so fast is that with inward-opening letterboxes, if as soon as you\u2019ve made one delivery you load up for the next, you won\u2019t even have to stop at the door, never mind step up onto the doorstep \u2013 and you don\u2019t 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.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Letterboxes at the bottom of doors are way easier using <em>Postie Mate<\/em> &#8211; as you don\u2019t have to bend as far down and become completely \u2018untucked\u2019 in the process!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Postie Mate<\/em> 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.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If a dog bites <em>Postie Mate<\/em> 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 <em>Postie Mate<\/em> \u2013 thankful you weren\u2019t leafleting bare-handed . . .<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Postie Mate<\/em> leaves comparatively useless previously existing alternatives in the shade: the Royal Mail\u2019s 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. &nbsp;In fact it\u2019s so useless Posties don\u2019t use it, which is why 100\u2019s of them are still being bitten every year through letterboxes. &nbsp;Put your spatula back in your kitchen drawer as it\u2019ll fold the leaflet, esp. when pushed through bristles, making it less attractive and likely to be read and is comparatively slow and fiddly.&nbsp; 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?!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Because there are thousands of<em> Postie Mates<\/em> already in use all over the UK, the Election Commission has ruled that your purchase\/use of<em> Postie Mate <\/em>should not be included on the statutory post-election expenses return declaration<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><em>If you want to do a professional job and make a good first impression, use the best tool for the job: <strong>Postie Mate<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u2013 in fact, house to house leafleting is 50% faster, saving 1\/3rd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-63","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Deliver leaflets safely - Postie Mate<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.postiemate.com\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Deliver leaflets safely - Postie Mate\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"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 \u2013 in fact, house to house leafleting is 50% faster, saving 1\/3rd [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.postiemate.com\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Postie Mate\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-29T22:49:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.postiemate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Postie-Mate-photo-with-white-background-Aug-2025-scaled.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.postiemate.com\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.postiemate.com\\\/\",\"name\":\"Deliver leaflets safely - Postie Mate\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.postiemate.com\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.postiemate.com\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.postiemate.com\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/davidmeacock.com\\\/wordpress\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/08\\\/Postie-Mate-photo-with-white-background-Aug-2025-scaled.jpeg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-21T04:55:47+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-29T22:49:53+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.postiemate.com\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.postiemate.com\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.postiemate.com\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/davidmeacock.com\\\/wordpress\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/08\\\/Postie-Mate-photo-with-white-background-Aug-2025-scaled.jpeg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/davidmeacock.com\\\/wordpress\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/08\\\/Postie-Mate-photo-with-white-background-Aug-2025-scaled.jpeg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.postiemate.com\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.postiemate.com\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Deliver leaflets safely\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.postiemate.com\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.postiemate.com\\\/\",\"name\":\"Postie Mate\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.postiemate.com\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.postiemate.com\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.postiemate.com\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Postie Mate\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.postiemate.com\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.postiemate.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.postiemate.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/08\\\/Postie-MateTM-branding.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.postiemate.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/08\\\/Postie-MateTM-branding.jpg\",\"width\":1605,\"height\":245,\"caption\":\"Postie Mate\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.postiemate.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Deliver leaflets safely - Postie Mate","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.postiemate.com\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Deliver leaflets safely - Postie Mate","og_description":"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 \u2013 in fact, house to house leafleting is 50% faster, saving 1\/3rd [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.postiemate.com\/","og_site_name":"Postie Mate","article_modified_time":"2025-08-29T22:49:53+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1920,"height":2560,"url":"https:\/\/www.postiemate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Postie-Mate-photo-with-white-background-Aug-2025-scaled.jpeg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Estimated reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.postiemate.com\/","url":"https:\/\/www.postiemate.com\/","name":"Deliver leaflets safely - Postie Mate","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.postiemate.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.postiemate.com\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.postiemate.com\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/davidmeacock.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Postie-Mate-photo-with-white-background-Aug-2025-scaled.jpeg","datePublished":"2025-07-21T04:55:47+00:00","dateModified":"2025-08-29T22:49:53+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.postiemate.com\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.postiemate.com\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.postiemate.com\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/davidmeacock.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Postie-Mate-photo-with-white-background-Aug-2025-scaled.jpeg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/davidmeacock.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Postie-Mate-photo-with-white-background-Aug-2025-scaled.jpeg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.postiemate.com\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.postiemate.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Deliver leaflets safely"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.postiemate.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.postiemate.com\/","name":"Postie Mate","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.postiemate.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.postiemate.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.postiemate.com\/#organization","name":"Postie Mate","url":"https:\/\/www.postiemate.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.postiemate.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.postiemate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Postie-MateTM-branding.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.postiemate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Postie-MateTM-branding.jpg","width":1605,"height":245,"caption":"Postie Mate"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.postiemate.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}}]}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postiemate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postiemate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postiemate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postiemate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postiemate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.postiemate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/www.postiemate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postiemate.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}