Yup roadside accessible, letterbox there for 28 years. Obvs an 18x6x6 inch parcel won’t fit and has to be delivered as a parcel.
Fine if this particular facteur doesn’t want to come past the gate.
Particularly as a female no issue with her wanting to insist on that right.
But house is close enough to the gate to hear a call. Plus the system agreed last year of a beep on the horn, which the post supervisor suggested as they ‘know their customers and do for others’ was working well. Very few parcels are actually sent to us.
So far as I know the system we had in a town, with mailbox(es) with a key that the postman had a copy of, is optional and would not work with every parcel size anyway.
It’s the complete lack of effort, the non-honouring of previously working arrangement and no explanation as to why the older system of simply calling out to signal the arrival of the parcel, is also not done (no answer as to why not, when I asked).
It’s also particularly delicate as she referred to being friends with the new neighbour in gated estate opposite. That neighbour has ignored friendly waves and not getting themselves a good reputation. Word has got round they "enguelé"d one of our other neighbours who brought the new neighbour’s dog back home when it strayed onto their property. Our other neighbour, who is a bit further away, thought the dog had got lost being new in the neighbourhood so had returned it. Then got engueléd by the new neighbours.
I will think about how to deal with this as in the country here, gossip gets around and things are long term.