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Do your parents open your post ?

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  • 24-08-2008 11:31pm
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    thelurch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 115 ✭✭


    A friend tells me that his parents open his post, He is 26 lives at home and pays his way. But they still open his post !! They still think he is 12 and maybe he won a prize in a rice krispies drawing competion.Do you open your wife, husband, partners post ?

    My own folks would never open anything adressed to me even if it sat there for a year. ??


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    omb0wyn5ehpij9
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,095 ✭✭✭✭omb0wyn5ehpij9


    Nope my parents dont open my mail!


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    ewj1978
    Registered Users Posts: 1,931 ✭✭✭ewj1978


    my wife opens mine as I do hers... But my mum used to drive me mad when ahe did it years ago...


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    Holsten
    Registered Users Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Holsten


    Yeah sometimes they do, annoys the **** out of me.


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    ejmaztec
    Registered Users Posts: 23,974 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    He should post a letter to himself with anthrax in it. That'll fix 'em.


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    longshanks
    Registered Users Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭longshanks


    a friend eh??

    just stand up to them, they'll still love you


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    shenanigans1982
    Registered Users Posts: 1,467 ✭✭✭shenanigans1982


    My own parents would never do it, however my OH's ma does it and then tries to blame it on her little brother. She even used to read the text messages on her phone if she left it sitting there and left the room.


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    Peared
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Peared


    Time to move out tbh.


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    Jack Sheehan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,693 ✭✭✭Jack Sheehan


    No, but then again the only post I get is free stuff from the freebies thread and most of it is adressed to 'Fr.Luke Duke' or 'Fr.Tod Umptious'


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    thelurch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 115 ✭✭thelurch


    ewj1978 wrote: »
    my wife opens mine as I do hers... But my mum used to drive me mad when ahe did it years ago...

    my wife would never open anything adressed to me, nor would I to her.
    i consider post a personal thing, and anything contained that needs to be discussed with your partner will be discussed....when YOU open it


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    ejmaztec
    Registered Users Posts: 23,974 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    thelurch wrote: »
    my wife would never open anything adressed to me, nor would I to her.
    i consider post a personal thing, and anything contained that needs to be discussed with your partner will be discussed....when YOU open it

    Would you open your wife's post if it was vibrating?


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    aliqueenb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 605 ✭✭✭aliqueenb


    i never get any post, tear.


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    Also Starring LeVar Burton
    Registered Users Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    I don't live at home, but most my post still gets sent there and my mum usually opens it if it looks official and important, so that she can let me know straight away. I don't really mind. She never opens personal letters or anything. If he really has a problem with it, he should tell his parents to f**k off.


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    thelurch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 115 ✭✭thelurch


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    Would you open your wife's post if it was vibrating?

    Very quickly befoe the batteries ran out !!:D


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    bluto63
    Registered Users Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭bluto63


    My parents open mine, it really gets to me. Luckily I rarely get things sent home anymore, but some things do and it's annoying


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    Rabies
    Registered Users Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    Ya.mine do. But that is because I'm not living in Ireland any more. Its just my bank statements and random stuff. But while I was living back home they would never open my mail.


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    rhapsody!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 529 ✭✭✭rhapsody!


    thelurch wrote: »
    A friend tells me that his parents open his post, He is 26 lives at home and pays his way. But they still open his post !! They still think he is 12 and maybe he won a prize in a rice krispies drawing competion.Do you open your wife, husband, partners post ?

    My own folks would never open anything adressed to me even if it sat there for a year. ??

    My brother is 27 lives at home and pays nothing. My mum doesn't seem to mind, still treats him as if he's a baby. She doesn't open his post though.

    They don't read my post because I don't get any muahaha but I'm sure if they did, they'd only ask who it was from and what the person said, and how the person was. Such as when I get texts.


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    cormie
    Registered Users Posts: 20,790 ✭✭✭✭cormie


    thelurch wrote: »
    and maybe he won a prize in a rice krispies drawing competion

    Hilarious :D


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    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    My parents would never open my post but my Mum will text me to let me know I got post and will wait at the door with it when I'm coming home. She then follows me around the house waiting to see what it is and eventually gets bored when I refuse to open it in front of her.

    When she used to pick me up from the bus when I came home from college she'd bring my post in the car with her.

    She likes to be very involved in my life, but unlike those who put up with their parents opening their post, I'm strong enough to stand up to her!


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    ZygOte
    Registered Users Posts: 559 ✭✭✭ZygOte


    i would freak if my folks opened my post even if its junk mail, its bang out of order. i still get all my post sent to my folks address as its easier than changing my address listings with banks etc, but they would never dream of opening it.

    total invasion of privacy IMO, he should get his ass out of there.


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    #21
    ninty9er
    Registered Users Posts: 9,366 ✭✭✭ninty9er


    Nope, if it's a fees bill or something like that she'll give it to me and then ask for it.

    I open the phone bill though, to have a headstart on how much complaining I'm gonna have to listen to:rolleyes:


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    Dord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,817 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    Nope, none of their business. I don't open their mail, they shouldn't open mine.


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    #23
    rhapsody!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 529 ✭✭✭rhapsody!


    Actually I just get things from Pigsback that I don't even bother opening because it's all crap.


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    #24
    TheZenWithin
    Registered Users Posts: 115 ✭✭TheZenWithin


    i get post all the time and im only 17.parents dont check it but only cause theyr into privacy and all that.but damn ...26...thats bad form.both opening his post and living at home.suppose everyone has theyr reasons. only one of my friend has the problems of the nosey parents but in all fairness they are wierdos


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    Nightwish
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭Nightwish


    My parents dont touch my post, however if its a package, like something I've bought off the net, my mother is usually quite nosy and wants to know what it is. The bf's parents open his post, but thats because he shares the same name as his dad.


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    #26
    thelurch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 115 ✭✭thelurch


    Mods, can you change the title topic to does your partner open your mail, thats really what this boils down to, thanks


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    #27
    dresden8
    Registered Users Posts: 3,289 ✭✭✭dresden8


    He should order himself a rampant rabbit and see what his ma thinks of that.


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    #28
    Carsinian Thau
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,054 ✭✭✭Carsinian Thau


    Occasionally.
    My dad opens any bank statement that comes for me. I live away from home during term time and I think it's just his way of making sure I'm ok. At least, that's what I want to keep telling myself.

    My mum sometimes opens it. Usually it's something important that's just arrived or she misread the name (her name only differs by one letter from mine).


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    Rowley Birkin QC
    Registered Users Posts: 6,218 ✭✭✭Rowley Birkin QC


    The only bit of post that my mam ever opened was a free Urban Design Compendium that I signed up for under the name "Fr.Chewbacca O'Shaughnessy".

    Tbh I was surprised the postman didn't open it himself for a look.


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    #30
    cuckoo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,945 ✭✭✭cuckoo


    I don't live at home anymore, but the odd bit of post does still seem to go there, and then gets promptly lost.

    "oh, yes, you got some post the other day....now, where did i put it?...."

    While the OP's 'friend' may have parents that think he might have won a rice crispies colouring competition, i have ones who think i still like to play hide and seek. With my post.


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    cooperguy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,650 ✭✭✭cooperguy


    My parents never open my post. I was away for the entire summer and only arrived back last tuesday. On my bed waiting for me was all my mail in an unopened pile.


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