Royal Mail refusing to deliver mail since Christmas (ice) - anyone else affected?

metron

Royal Mail have been refusing to deliver any post to this area since before Christmas, claiming that the roads are too icy and quoting Health and Safety.

We live in a very easily accessible village just a few miles from the Delivery Office, and no other deliveries (including Royal Mail's own Parcelforce operation) have been affected.

Life is perfectly normal in every way (no snow - just the usual slightly icy pavements and roads that you'd find anywhere at this time of year). The only abnormal thing is that Royal Mail have chosen not to deliver the mail for reasons best known to themselves.

Is anyone else having this problem? I'm in England, but does Scotland or the far north of England ever get any post? :think:

sniggings

try sending a special delivery to yourself, or better get someone to send you one, then you'll know if it's an official no delivery from that delivery office as you will e advised as such when paying, as the delivery would not be guaranteed next day OR the real reason, that a few posties have pulled a sickie and it's just they don't have the staff, if it's the latter, I doubt the manager has told the powers that be.

metron

sniggings wrote: »

try sending a special delivery to yourself, or better get someone to send you one, then you'll know if it's an official no delivery from that delivery office as you will e advised as such when paying, as the delivery would not be guaranteed next day OR the real reason, that a few posties have pulled a sickie and it's just they don't have the staff, if it's the latter, I doubt the manager has told the powers that be.

That's precisely the reason - and the 'weather' is being used an excuse to cover over the shortage. There is, in reality, no weather problem at all, and our usual postman (who delivers by van anyway and doesn't have to walk along icy pavements) has been sent elsewhere.

So it's cheating Royal Mail managers fiddling the system - and my aim now will be to have them disciplined for it. If anyone further up in RM cares, that is!

Nile

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