Letter sender pens post-it plea on postbox for postman

LOUISE WALSH

An absent-minded letter sender placed a post-it note on the local postbox asking the postman for help after they posted an important message without a stamp.

The desperate sender had taken measures to ensure their letter got to its destination when she discovered their mistake by placing a stamp inside another open envelope and posting that in the postbox.

They hoped that the postman might retrieve the stamp and fix it to the envelope.

The message, stuck to the outside of the post box at Tower Road in Mornington, Co. Meath was discovered by Carol Lennon as she was posting her own letters on Thursday

The post it read: "Dear Postman.  I accidentally put an important letter in here with no stamp. It's to Dundalk Court Office. I've just put in an open envelope with a stamp.  Please, please would you put a stamp on my Dundalk letter?"

"We were on our way home from Scouts and I asked my son Xylan to pop two letters into the postbox for me.

"Then I saw the post-it note and thought I'd better see what this is all about in case it's a notice that they're not collecting letters or something.

"The top post-it note had just a picture of an eye to look under I suppose and then we saw the plea underneath.

"It says Tuesday night on the post-it but we posted our letters on Thursday.  I'm surprised the post-it note was still there and hadn't been taken off or blown away.

"I presume the postman saw it.  I wonder if it got to Dundalk?  It really is a thing though that could only happen in Ireland," she laughed

An Post are looking into the incident