It's the kind of idea you might dream up after one glass too many – but this one has matured nicely.A young entrepreneur has developed a slim-line wine bottle which can be posted through letterboxes.It holds the same amount as a 750ml bottle but has been flattened and made longer so it can fit through a standard slot in a front door or postbox.Joe Revell, 29, of Garcon Wines, said he came up with the idea after listening to a friend complain about missing deliveries at home, when he was not there to open the door and sign for the bottles. The new bottles are made from hard glass-like plastic and are contained within protective cardboard boxes (pictured) which cushion the fall from the letterbox to the floor to ensure there are no breakagesCurrently, bottle deliveries are usually dropped off by a courier – and someone needs to be at home to collect them. This often results in people missing deliveries and having to retrieve their order from a depot, which is no more efficient than picking a bottle up at the shop.

The bottles are made from hard glass-like plastic and are packaged in cardboard boxes which cushion the fall from the letterbox to the floor. The bottle itself is 13.5in – about 2in taller than a regular wine bottle – but around half as thick.shower glass doors barrieGarcon Wines is to become the UK’s first subscription based ‘wine by post’ service when it begins shipping in the spring. screen doors for californian bungalowpany co-founder Santiago Navarro said: ‘I was well aware of the problems that exist with wine delivery, having previously owned an online wine company.garage door sales in lincoln city oregon The plastic wine bottles (pictured) have been flattened and made longer so they hold the regular level of 750ml (1.3 pints)double glazing doors swindon

Their thin size means the  bottles can fit into a postbox and through a standard slot in a front door. The cardboard box is similar in shape and size to packaging that contact lenses are delivered in to customers‘We spent lots of time speaking with designers from around the world when eventually the eureka moment came to us. screen doors adelaide priceSince then we worked for a year and a half to get these bottles manufactured.‘interior slab doors home depotThere has never been anything like it before. sliding fly screen door melbourneThe bottle feels very nice in your hand, with similar rigidity and clarity to a regular bottle.’Mr Navarro will source wine from around the world and ship it to the UK in bulk, where it will be decanted into the bottles.

Currently, bottles are dropped off by a courier, meaning someone needs to be at home to collect their purchase. This often results in people missing deliveries and having to retrieve their order from a depot Garcon Wines is to become the UK's first subscription based 'wine by post' service when they begin shipping in the spring, that will work out at under £10 ($12.13) a bottle Club members will be sent bottles on a daily, weekly or fortnightly basis depending on their plan. The process has accelerated after the company won a Dragon's Den-style show called 'Pop Up Start Up' on US network CNBCThe cycle was every seven years, they were painted green and cream. It was Brilliant Green, it was made by W&J Leigh, of Bolton, that was the manufacturers, and it was made specially for us, it wasn’t a general colour, they made thousands of gallons of green, and green undercoat obviously, and it was all Brilliant Green. But it was the same type of paint that was made for the Forth Bridge, it never went blue or yellow, a green paint usually fades into either yellow or blue, but there are still some green doors around the estate now, and they are still green.

Roger Dear, former Local Manager, Warner EstatesAnd that green was made special by a firm, it used to come in lorryloads. Ray Holmes, painter and decorator, Warner Estates B: Right up until I started work, which was in 1962, I can never ever remember having a key for the door, we had a string on the door, and I used to come home from school, put my hand through the letter box, pull the string and the door used to open. Security of a night, was: “anybody taken the string off?” you know, off the door, it used to pull the latch. That was the security, taking the string off. And during the day, we used to have different insurance men who used to come, and the books just used to be on the stairs with the money, and the insurance man used to come, and he’d pull the string, Mr Telfer, his name was, he would pull the string, he’d take the money and he’d mark it down in the books, different insurances and endowments, I don’t know, you didn’t lock the doors at all. When we started work in the early sixties, I think we both got given a key each, and it wasn’t a Yale lock, it was one of those big keys about four inches long, big metal key, and before that I can never ever remember having a key for the door.

S: Warner’s used to come about every two years and repaint the outside, and it was a bit like the Forth Bridge. B: I can remember the Warners coming and painting, and you really used to smell the paint, and you used to have all the windows open, and it’d be the green front door, and it’d be the cream round the windows S: And they even used to paint the black letterbox B: Yeah, paint the black letterboxes Bob & Sylvia, Keith Road You can look at the window sill and see where the paint is lifting off royally, outside. And I’ve got to get written permission to do it. But somebody further along the road, I thought they’d bought the tenancy, because they’ve got a burgundy coloured front door, but she said no, we just decided to paint ours and we’ve never heard anything from anybody. So I thought, oh right. But I keep mine clean anyway. Just because it’s a council flat, doesn’t mean you have to live like you’re in a slum, does it. But it might have something to do with my age, because I think lots of people do think you have to live like you’re in a slum.

The front doors are lovely, it’ll never be replaced with a double glazed plastic one, I just love the front door, I suppose it’s a nostalgia thing in some ways. But I’ve got all the stuff to fit it out, nice new letter box and all the rest of it but I haven’t put them on yet. The problem with the old front doors, and there was only one, as far as I could see, is that it had a very very small letter box. So if you’re expecting post of any sort, the postman had to knock on the door and then you never got the letter. So the first thing I thought was I’ll enlarge the letter box so for the biggest metal letter flap I can find. Which I’ve got in the box, but I haven’t got round to putting it on. I like the Warner green and white, but there’s not enough houses or flats that have been kept in it, to make sense to redo it like that. I think it would look a bit odd if I painted my upstairs flat in green and white on the outside and the downstairs flat was painted something different.