Postal Deliveries Shambles

welshsue

We had no post yesterday but was suprised to see postie arrive today as we have at least 6inches of snow and the road hasn't been gritted so lots of black ice around. Had a chat with postie and said how pleased we were to see him and for him to take care. He told me that they have all been told by management that if they get stuck in the snow or have an accident they are sacked.

custardy

welshsue wrote: »

We had no post yesterday but was suprised to see postie arrive today as we have at least 6inches of snow and the road hasn't been gritted so lots of black ice around. Had a chat with postie and said how pleased we were to see him and for him to take care. He told me that they have all been told by management that if they get stuck in the snow or have an accident they are sacked.

now thats the RM management style im used to
i myself have a park & loop duty with no parking
so i can park where i am not meant to and pay the parking tickets myself
or park where i can and walk further to my deliveries and then have to deal with the daily issues of not having enough time
great fun

LeeSouthEast

I'm not in the least bit surprised at that.

But still :eek: !!

tbw

I haven't had any post for the past 3 days - the main roads are clear and, in the more built up areas, many of the side roads are not too bad either. Pavements are a death trap though. The country roads are also clogged up .

I'm not surprised that deliveries are disrupted although I did think I might have had SOME post by now. I'm in a bit of a faff really - due to fly next week from Heathrow and no sign of any tickets (bit of a pain as I wanted to book my seats online). I've phoned Mercury Direct and they have an ansafone message saying basically, don't panic, phone up if tickets haven't arrived 3 days before and they will give you easy instructions by phone to get around the missing tickets problem. Sounds a sensible solution - but nobody is actually answereing their phones so they are clearly very short staffed.

So, now I'm worrying about no tickets, possibility of no flights, good chance I won't be able to get to Heathrow anyway due to the snow - and my sprained ankle cos I slipped down the B***** steps!!! Hell, I need a stiff drink.

biscit

Ivory_Tinkler wrote: »

Well as you don't watch the news let me put you in the picture. The whole country has been gripped by snow and sub-zero temperatures. Most airports have been closed at some stage over the last few days, rail services are severely disrupted, public transport delayed or even cancelled and roads, even motorways, have been badly affected. Some people are completely cut off or can't even get their cars off their estates/streets, hospitals cancelling non-urgent ops and schools closed. Transport links have been very badly affected which means if someone posted you a letter yesterday in Scotland, the poor postie may not have even got to the postbox to empty it let alone take it to the local sorting office to be sent by air/rail/road to your local sorting office. As Custardy says, as you don't seem to be badly affected, take a 10 minute walk down to your local sorting office and have a chat with them there...I'm sure they will soon enlighten you.

Indeed, your own locality is only one part of the chain.

Edinburghlass_2

Can't fault my postie, been delivering ever since since we first had snow, more than two weeks ago and its still here! Neighbour delivered a parcel last night that my postie had left with him rather than take it back to the sorting office which would have been more of a struggle to get to.

Thanked my postie by way of a beer and some chocolate on Tuesday for his sterling service throughout the year.

missymugwump

FatAndy wrote: »

Don't believe everything you see on the news. The 'big picture' is that some parts of country have experienced bad weather, but they don't mention that other parts of the country haven't. Where I live we had one brief snow shower on Tuesday but otherwise the weather has been reasonably mild, the main roads are all perfectly clear, shops and businesses are operating as normal and even the trains are running on time!

The problem is that the BBC and ITV always send their reporters to the worst affected areas so they can be filmed reporting from the middle of a six foot snow drift. If they sent a reporter here they'd be struggling to find a six millimeter deep snow drift to stand in!

Which is exactly why the OP has been reminded that your location is irrelevant as it is part of a small cog in a big wheel

Anyway Royston Vasey hasn't appeared on my news this week ? it's very local :rotfl:


To be honest it was all the sly digs about the posties that annoyed me and no I am not a postie,nor is anyone in my family but I wouldn't want their job at the moment they are damned whatever they do

mazza111

frannyann wrote: »

Well the posties are out today, even though we've had around 6-7 inches fall over the past two days. One of them is actually in shorts :eek: apparently our postie says he is doing it as a dare and if he doesn't go into trousers at all, they all have to give money to charity!

You can tell it's getting colder in our area, one of our other woman posties is now wearing her 3/4 length troosers instead of her shorts.:rotfl:

custardy

mazza111 wrote: »

You can tell it's getting colder in our area, one of our other woman posties is now wearing her 3/4 length troosers instead of her shorts.:rotfl:

i have had to put on a long sleeve shirt as i have worn holes in all my short sleeved ones

hoyles10

Well i've just been out to walk the dog and i'm impressed that our postie has walked up and down our street without getting stuck or slipped and broken his neck. It was a nightmare, the parts that aren't a foot deep are very very slippy. I was knackered walking down the road and back so I have a greater respect for our postie