You know what a pain it is when your mailbox – the real, not digital, kind – is such a long distance away at the end of your stately home driveway? Well now you don’t have to send the butler out into the rain every ten minutes to keep checking to see whether your Tiffany’s catalogue has arrived, you can simply use your Mail Alert system. Your little man will thank you.

‘The Mail Alert? notifies you immediately when your mail has been placed in your mailbox. This sensor is triggered when the mailman opens the mailbox door. The sensor then sends a radio signal to the indoor display…At that point the indoor display will chime once every five minutes for two hours, and the red MAIL button will flash constantly to alert you that the mail has arrived.’