Spider web stops Canada Post delivery

[oneh2obabe]

CBC – Wed, 28 Sep, 2011

A spider web — and a skittish mail carrier — prevented a Dartmouth, N.S., man from getting his mail for more than a week.

Kevin Keating noticed his letters had stopped coming after a few days, but received no notice from Canada Post.

"We just thought the mail was being stolen," he said Wednesday.

Keating made multiple phone inquiries about his lack of letters, but it took eight days for him to learn the reason for the stoppage.

A carrier delivered a handwritten note on the back of a letter explaining simply, "Spider webs," followed by the date.

Keating then learned his regular postal worker would not cross the path to his front door because there was a spider web across it.

Keating rarely uses that walkway to his front door and so had not noticed the web. He brushed it down when he got the note and his mail service has resumed.

Keating was not impressed by the delivery drought. "Yes, there was a spider. Is that a reason for not delivering my mail? What's next, ants?

"I just want another letter carrier. I just want my mail."

Keating has since gotten into the Halloween spirit early by erecting a large plastic spider above his mail box.

"My daughter, who is 12, she had a spider in her play house, so I thought since it's Halloween, I'd put it near the mail box and see what she thought of that," he said.

Canada Post said safety is a major issue for letter carriers, but that the carrier in question may have been overzealous in shutting down delivery when faced with a spider web.

[fvkasm2x]

If the guy is truly afraid of spiders, I don't fault him for not delivering the mail. I do fault him though, for not alerting someone and/or contacting the homeowner.

[Bsuds]

This place must have a back entrance if the homeowner doesn't use the front often enough to see the web. Could the Post person not go to the back door one time to let them know.

[albertabound]

You have to be kidding, what is next a dog barking in the block, how low can a person get.

[Oxl3y]

Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet or the heat of summer.

Do you see anything about spiders? Carrier is covered ;)

[Sn0man]

Keating then learned his regular postal worker would not cross the path to his front door because there was a spider web across it.

What a pansy!!

Keating has since gotten into the Halloween spirit early by erecting a large plastic spider above his mail box.

Now that is classic!

[grumpydigger]

*off-topic/Jo*