Rain Stops....... Post!!!

[K12beano]

I've woken up on another plant haven't I?


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshi...

Doncaster street's mail stopped after postman hurt
Businesses on a street in South Yorkshire have been told they will not have mail delivered on rainy days after a postman slipped and injured himself.

[Puggit]

Pfff - amateurs.

Down here in Reading the rain has stopped the water festival from being held on the water

http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/s/2115224_heavy_r...

[Funkycoldribena]

I've woken up under many a bush,but never on a plant.

[K12beano]

Funkycoldribena said:

I've woken up under many a bush,but never on a plant.

Yup - it's just another planet where they don't have the letter "E" - and obviously the Royal Mail doesn't deliver. Amazingly like this one though!

[DonkeyApple]

It is phenominal just how far Yorkshire values have fallen in such a short period. God's Own County has wed itself to the welfare cheque and debt for hair products.

Bunch of cosmetically enhanced, begging homos. Oh how the mighty have fallen. Probably choke on a half of shandy if they stopped drinking cocktails for five minutes.

[speedchick]

When we had that cold spell the other January, my daughter, a little 5 ft weighs nothing, was out every morning at 6.30 doing her paper round, even to the extent of going across one road where there had been a pipe burst on her hands and kneess.

Our 6ft 'brick outhouse' postie, rarely seen before 10am, refused to do the post round here as he said it was too dangerous! (although the special delivery guy made it up here on foot, in shorts, after abandoning the van at the bottom of the hill)

[pingu393]

What's happened to the Men In Shorts? A bit of rain and now they wimp out. This guy should be kicked out of the Postie's Union for seriously letting the side down.

BTW, our postie was in shorts today.

[Pesty]

DonkeyApple said:

I if they stopped drinking cocktails for five minutes.

Ive just started drinking cocktails in fact ive just finished a long island ice tea ahd TGIs

My bet is he broke it on the weekend falling off a table at workin mens waiting till monday so he could get compo.

Moss on South parade my arse. what a tt.

[DonkeyApple]

Pesty said:

Ive just started drinking cocktails

Absolute disgrace.

You can't tell the difference between Yorkshire and Essex nowadays.

I bet the postie slipped on some hair gel or a tube of tanning product.

It saddens me to head north to the cultural centre of the English Man, the home of the brave and see the streets littered with coiffured, creosoted, mincing poofs sipping cocktails and claiming to have loads of money instead of denying ever seeing more than a £1 coin while sleeping on a mattress of £50 notes.

It brings a year to the eye.

[Pesty]

I draw the line at a man bag though.

I could tell you some stories about the boys at my daughters school that would make you cry.


Great bunch of fannies they are these days.

[joe58]

Where is the door to the country?

[egor110]

speedchick said:

When we had that cold spell the other January, my daughter, a little 5 ft weighs nothing, was out every morning at 6.30 doing her paper round, even to the extent of going across one road where there had been a pipe burst on her hands and kneess.

Our 6ft 'brick outhouse' postie, rarely seen before 10am, refused to do the post round here as he said it was too dangerous! (although the special delivery guy made it up here on foot, in shorts, after abandoning the van at the bottom of the hill)

What difference does the fact he's rarely seen before 10 make?
All postal workers are starting later so obviously finishing later, i've gone from 5.15-5.30-6- 6.30 to 7.30 starts in the last 20 years. Delivering your post early is no longer a priority unless you pay for by 9am or by 1pm special delivery.

[coanda]

egor110 said:

speedchick said:

When we had that cold spell the other January, my daughter, a little 5 ft weighs nothing, was out every morning at 6.30 doing her paper round, even to the extent of going across one road where there had been a pipe burst on her hands and kneess.

Our 6ft 'brick outhouse' postie, rarely seen before 10am, refused to do the post round here as he said it was too dangerous! (although the special delivery guy made it up here on foot, in shorts, after abandoning the van at the bottom of the hill)

What difference does the fact he's rarely seen before 10 make?
All postal workers are starting later so obviously finishing later, i've gone from 5.15-5.30-6- 6.30 to 7.30 starts in the last 20 years. Delivering your post early is no longer a priority unless you pay for by 9am or by 1pm special delivery.

It seems that just delivering the post is no longer a priority.

[martin84]

coanda said:

It seems that just delivering the post is no longer a priority.

Says the person who presumably doesn't carry 8 15kg bags full of mail every day on multiple hour walks for £8 an hour.

[Localwoman]

I lived in a remote area of Cornwall, for a time and our Postie used to save up all our mail until it was worth a trip out to us. So we used to get our post once a week if he 'fancied a trip out'. If it was a rainy week, we had no chance at all.

[speedchick]

egor110 said:

speedchick said:

When we had that cold spell the other January, my daughter, a little 5 ft weighs nothing, was out every morning at 6.30 doing her paper round, even to the extent of going across one road where there had been a pipe burst on her hands and kneess.

Our 6ft 'brick outhouse' postie, rarely seen before 10am, refused to do the post round here as he said it was too dangerous! (although the special delivery guy made it up here on foot, in shorts, after abandoning the van at the bottom of the hill)

What difference does the fact he's rarely seen before 10 make?
All postal workers are starting later so obviously finishing later, i've gone from 5.15-5.30-6- 6.30 to 7.30 starts in the last 20 years. Delivering your post early is no longer a priority unless you pay for by 9am or by 1pm special delivery.

The time difference being that at 6.30 in the morning it was a lot worse than at 10.30 when there had been vehicle and foot traffic shifting some of the snow, so not as bad underfoot.

[joe_90]

martin84 said:

coanda said:

It seems that just delivering the post is no longer a priority.

Says the person who presumably doesn't carry 8 15kg bags full of mail every day on multiple hour walks for £8 an hour.

Thats sounds crazy, why would you want to do that You will never get to be a goatee wearing director doing that.

[W124Bob]

Dad was a postie for 30years him and the bike never missed a day,when he retired at 60 he took his bike with him. He's just had his 86th birhtday still got the bike still rides about 30miles aweek,if they want to call him up the numbers !!!!!!! he's waiting.

[egor110]

coanda said:

It seems that just delivering the post is no longer a priority.

Why because it's delivered later in the day?

The post in this country is the 2nd cheapest in europe and the only one that collects and delivers 6 days a week.
In the late 90's we used to deliver our last letter by 9.30am however this cost more as you had more people on nights so by making the deliverys go out later you have less people on nights which saves money.

You ask 100 posties and 99 would prefer to work 5-12 rather than 7-3 like now, however things are changing rapidly and we either start later or leave.

Re your daughter delivering newspapers crawling across snow on her hands and knees, i think it's shameful that you her parent and the newsagents she works for allowed that to happen. If she was over 16 she'd be covered by health and safety regs, but paperboy/girls seem to have no rules how heavy the bags are, how bad the conditions are.

Snow is going to be worse later on in the day because people/traffic have been over it and compacted it, so it's even more slippery.

[egor110]

They don't carry bags now because some suited genius decided lets stop postmen using bikes and pouches of mail and have 2 of them sharing a van instead, despite the cost of fuel increasing.