A Queensland woman was left delighted after her postman went the extra mile by bringing in her dry sheets when it started to rain while he was delivering her parcels.
Verrity Wandel was shocked when she arrived home last Thursday to find her sheets were missing from the clothesline.
She was worried they had been rained on while she was out, but when she checked her CCTV footage, she saw postman Gurpreet Singh folding the sheets and leaving them by her door.
Wandel shared the footage online, where it received millions of views and even praise from Bollywood star and actress Priyanka Chopra.
In an interview with Sunrise on Tuesday, Wandel said she initially thought her husband had brought the sheets inside.
“I was kind of shocked,” she said.
“I thought the washing was on the line, so where is it now? It wasn’t until we watched the cameras that we saw that it was Gurpreet,” she continued.
“It is something that probably would have happened in my parent’s era or in a smaller community, but it is not something you would expect today.”
Singh, said that while it was the first time he took a customer’s washing off the line, helping others out was just something he enjoyed doing.
“I like helping, like just sliding a customer’s parcels inside their premises or under the doorway because we are not allowed to go inside,” he said.
“(I like) to help them out by taking the parcel upstairs for them, that sort of thing.”
In this instance, Singh said that he knew no one was home “because they didn’t come outside.”
“I turned my back and saw the sheets on the clothesline, and it just came to my mind to do that.”
Wandel and Singh plan to meet for a cup of tea soon.
Image: Sunrise
