Hungry Snails Force Closure of Royal Mail Postbox
In the News
No its not April 1st , but you might think it might be after reading this headline
We all know the mail can be slow to reach us , known as snail mail, but these snails are not so slow when it comes to feasting on our mail
That's what's been happening at this post box in Adderstone, Northumberland, where they have been crawling through the flap to devour the envelopes
In fact they have caused so much damage to them the Royal Mail have been forced to put a temporary 'out of use' notice on the post box
The problem is the snails like to eat the paper as is contains cellulose , that gives them energy, besides containing calcium that they use to construct their shells
It seems this post box is also popular with thieves , it was stolen last year and only recently replaced
Maybe it was someone of French descendancy , after all, snails are a delicacy there ?
The residents are not happy as they depended more on this post box to despatch their mail
Lets hope it gets re - instated, and not at a snails pace
It seems this problem is not confined to Adderstone though , it has also been happening in Lewdown, Devon, where the snails have taken a liking to the glue
But they have not closed the postbox, just put up a notice warning people their letters could be a bit nibbled around the edges
That's hilarious to read. OK not funny for the post office or residents but still funny that snails are doing this. The thieves is disgusting.
Jerseydrew I believe there are some snobby snails out there, they will only dine on first class letters and not second class 
Regarding the thieves ,
My nephew for some reason loves these gross bugs, I can't stand them.
"snails are a delicacy there"
Snails are a snack in various countries and I tried them when abroad, but didn't like it and the thought I was eating snails didn't help. Nope.
PhilipMarc I had some when camping in the south of france P when younger , just tried them out of curiosity with some frozen frogs legs
The snails were from a local supermarket and in a can and cooked over a calor gas stove
They were vile, but then i suppose cooked with garlic in a restaurant they would probably taste better
The frogs legs were ok , just like eating chicken with a slight fishy taste , but lacking meat unlike a chicken leg
I would love to say yes M, but it was just supermarket plonk, less than 50p a bottle, in old money , oh , the good old days 
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