Postmen are banned from delivering on 'danger' roads

[TrueBlueTerrier]

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Millions of Londoners have not had any post for the past three days.

Royal Mail has banned postmen from driving or walking down roads that have not been gritted, unions said.

A spokeswoman for the Communications Workers' Union said that on Monday there had been no deliveries in large parts of London and the whole of Surrey, Essex and Kent. A union spokeswoman said: "There's a safety first approach and we think that is quite right too."

Yesterday Royal Mail sent out staff to deliver in roads that had been gritted and more were sent out today. But there are still thousands of streets deemed too dangerous. Postmen have been redeployed to sorting.

A Royal Mail spokesman said: "We are sorry for the inconvenience this has caused. We're doing all we can to continue to provide services and where we are still encountering problems, we are working to restore normal service as soon as possible."

[baldrick]

Have to say well done to London RM management
I've found it difficult enough to walk along the ice covered side roads,
even without carrying a bag of mail over my shoulder.
Had my first post delivered for this week, today, but wouldn't have
wanted my postie to risk injury.

[Pat Ostman]

Have to say well done to London RM management
I've found it difficult enough to walk along the ice covered side roads,
even without carrying a bag of mail over my shoulder.
Had my first post delivered for this week, today, but wouldn't have
wanted my postie to risk injury.

Also agree, it's seriously icey out there and I just about avoided injury when I slipped today. Surprised that our DOM didn't issue us with ice-skates its that bad. Still, he would also then add an extra 250 drops saying we could now deliver faster.

[DGP1]

Have to say well done to London RM management
I've found it difficult enough to walk along the ice covered side roads,
even without carrying a bag of mail over my shoulder.
Had my first post delivered for this week, today, but wouldn't have
wanted my postie to risk injury.

Also agree, it's seriously icey out there and I just about avoided injury when I slipped today. Surprised that our DOM didn't issue us with ice-skates its that bad. Still, he would also then add an extra 250 drops saying we could now deliver faster.

With the Magnums you do have ice-skates

[Pat Ostman]

Have to say well done to London RM management
I've found it difficult enough to walk along the ice covered side roads,
even without carrying a bag of mail over my shoulder.
Had my first post delivered for this week, today, but wouldn't have
wanted my postie to risk injury.

Also agree, it's seriously icey out there and I just about avoided injury when I slipped today. Surprised that our DOM didn't issue us with ice-skates its that bad. Still, he would also then add an extra 250 drops saying we could now deliver faster.

With the Magnums you do have ice-skates

You got me there!