[Peter_]

Originally Posted by pop80_uk

Ok, quick update.

I happened to have a day off and on Friday up rolled a Virgin van, two blokes got out, looked at the box, one kicked it and front fell off.

The other one laughed, they then proceed to get go the van, I assume to locate a suitable tool to shape the box front back into a usable form......so...
Hammer perhaps....nope
maybe a screwdriver.....nope
mallet....nope not one of those

The guy arrived back with a spade!! They then proceed to take in turns to hit the lid with a spade whilst the other one held it. I'm no sheet metal worker, but I suspect this is the not the traditional method of working metal.

At this point the lid looked like it had been the unfortunate recipient of a green box hate attack, looking worse than when it had started.

At this point I popped out to the car and also went over to speak to them, they told me that they had tried to shape it a little and were looking for some bricks to push against the cover as they still thought it would stick out slightly, asked if I had any and said no and went back into the house

They concluded their "repair" by putting the now destroyed front back onto the box and kicking it until I assume it sort of fitted. Then putting a black bin liner over the top of it. Which 10 minutes after they left had blown away.

In short the box looks the same / worse than it did before.

At one point I was honestly hoping they were going to ask me if I could fix it whilst they had a cuppa.

Sorry for the long post and thanks for everyone's help!

You should have filmed it and posted it on Youtube.