@ Alan:

OK, so what is the point in door-stepping then? An Post can (and DO) deliver all the literature that the door-steppers have to give you. I felt like picking up one of the many FG manifestos that An Post kindly spammed me with and shouting 'snap' when the door step brigade produce the same stuff yet again.

If their sole purpose is to deliver documents then why do they ring the door bell? Obviously they are supposed to be there to talk, they just don't seem to be able to.

Finally, in the grand scheme of things they are party plebs. You seem to read more negativity into the term pleb than I do. I'm a pleb where I work. Most of us are plebs when it comes to the running of this country. I'd like to have the actual candidate call to the door, or at least someone who has something to say!