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A Brummie Dude
I see snails are leaving the garden to enter Royal Post Boxes and chomp the mail
The common snail has become addicted to British saliva and the animal glue used to seal envelopes. All over Britain, it seems, slimy creatures have been crawling up pillar boxes, climbing through the hole and dropping several feet into the pile of letters where they have been munching through the post in great snail feasts.
The problem was first noted in in postboxes set in stone walls and surrounded by foliage. "We were finding 20, even 30 snails at a time in the bottom of boxes, "It wasn't just ones or twos. They were leaving their slime everywhere, getting into the letters, licking the paste. But they left the stamps alone, very respectful of the Queen's image."
But the Post Office thinks it has got the snail mail phenomenon licked. a postman, came up with the idea of fitting draught excluders to postboxes. The snails, it seems, do not like having their stomachs tickled by the plastic bristles.
Hundreds of boxes around Britain have been fitted with excluders. "People have been phoning from everywhere, saying 'what can we do about them?
The common snail has become addicted to British saliva and the animal glue used to seal envelopes. All over Britain, it seems, slimy creatures have been crawling up pillar boxes, climbing through the hole and dropping several feet into the pile of letters where they have been munching through the post in great snail feasts.
The problem was first noted in in postboxes set in stone walls and surrounded by foliage. "We were finding 20, even 30 snails at a time in the bottom of boxes, "It wasn't just ones or twos. They were leaving their slime everywhere, getting into the letters, licking the paste. But they left the stamps alone, very respectful of the Queen's image."
But the Post Office thinks it has got the snail mail phenomenon licked. a postman, came up with the idea of fitting draught excluders to postboxes. The snails, it seems, do not like having their stomachs tickled by the plastic bristles.
Hundreds of boxes around Britain have been fitted with excluders. "People have been phoning from everywhere, saying 'what can we do about them?
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