WITH all the silly and rather irrelevant directives that have come out of the EU in past years' it surprises me that nobody has thought of standardising the size, shape and positioning of the slot through which we receive our mail, the letterboxes on the front of our doors.

Having recently spent many hours delivering political leaflets to the residents of my ward I must say my heart bleeds for all mailmen/women.

I wonder if anyone on the wrong side of sixty has ever tried pushing an object through a post box no more than four inches from the foot of a door? Or have you ever tried getting a nine-inch envelope through a six-inch box?

Then there is the varying strengths of the flap springs to contend with or the brush draught excluder that one has to sometimes fight their way past.

Surely it would not take too much brainpower to standardise the size and positioning of these items without making our houses look too regimental, I'm sure our postmen/women would welcome the idea. We could, of course, do as many do and have a mailbox on the wall and seal our letterboxes completely.

If our political parties insist we all become Europeans why don't we send our own directive to the bureaucrats in Brussels and insist that all houses throughout the European Union standardise this item and call it the Great British Standard Post box?

L A O'BEE, Lordswood.