Snow and Ice

[bedfordrl]

Most of GU area sent home today and we have only just come back after a week off .

And again

[wandererpaul]

part of deliveries were made in TW1/2 today. Not all went out, DIM said don't take any risks! so most didn;t! We were also allowed to use cars! Half of my duty cleared, rest can wait!

[TrueBlueTerrier]

We had to do all of our walks - only 2 bags as 1 wagon was cancelled and missort run was also cancelled - got out 0845 instead of 0940 but still did not get done till 1300. Snow was 6 to 8 inches deep on average and had frozen overnight, legs hurt now, not because of falling over, I didn't, but just the effort of wading through it all.

[bedfordrl]

You poor old chap.
Get the missus to give you a massage.
Forecast for Thursday/Friday looks interesting for this part of the country.

[Stormproof]

I drove my car in to work,the roads were not to bad where i live,but got worse when i got to work.Could well be going to my local office tomorrow though.

Did you enjoy your time at the local DO? What time did they let you go home?

[DGP1]

It tried to snow here last night but it just turned to rain so everything was just normal

[johnnyp]

I drove my car in to work,the roads were not to bad where i live,but got worse when i got to work.Could well be going to my local office tomorrow though.

Did you enjoy your time at the local DO? What time did they let you go home?

It was a nice change as we have never worked in a Mail Centre before,also had a full English which was very nice.Staff were friendly and managers were ok as well,let us go at 12.30.2 days off now so it could be our first and last if the weather improves.Father in Law went to BMC SPDO and done a delivery on a bike

[gman2050uk]

Im in the gu area and we were told its up to us if we want to go out and deliver talk about cover there backs they cannot even make a decision then later on in the week we will have to make it up to them as it will be heavy so if we go over our time we cannot book it we have to just get on with it we got the rounds thrown off and finally got the sky mags today yippee for tomorrow.

[SW17]

We had our 2nd day without going out on delivery, we have had a day of sun today and there has been a slight thaw but the pavements are still covered with ice and tonight it is forcast to be -3 so tomorrow (Wednesday) any slushy pavements will have re-frozen so I can't see us going out on delivery again tomorrow. Royal Mail and the management have been feeding us health and saftey for the last year or so and will also put people on a stage 1 for accidents at work so we as an office have took a stance that we don't go out untill the pavements are safe, also if you do go out in bad conditions you set a presidence and will find it hard to argue against it in the futue, we have more snow which has been forcast for thursday so be aware.

[krussel]

SE area. We were requested to go out but not too take risks so i left 3 small roads behind as they were steep hills . It was hard going and snow was crunchy and over a foot deep in average. Got the van stuck twice on ice so dumped it and loaded up . Carried bout 6 bags in all and still have 4 trays of mailsort flats un-prepped at office. Got back 1.50pm knackerd and a sore blister because of soaked soaks. Wont be much better tommorrow.

[Edward Hunter]

All of West London told its up to us to make the decision as to whether to go out or not. Anyone not going out at our place had to ips what came up on the van, then throw off walks of posties that decided to do a bit. H&S said no HCT s to be used so a few took a couple of blocks of flats out in a pouch. So 2 days running with no deliveries for alot of walks here. Tomorrow is going to be heavy. Call in the 20 hour boys we need some help!

[legind]

Day of yesterday came into work this morning and couldn't believe what I was hearing. There was thick snow and still snowing hard outside and the DIM insisted all deliveries would go out as normal but also that absorbing deliveries would take place as well. We also had to absorb today aswell manager saying its because we're short staffed and absolutley no mention about any heath or safety issues due to the snow and ice. After 25yrs I've had enough of this sh1t please please let me have redundancy.

[baldrick]

I don't know what happened across NW London, but there weren't any deliveries
in my road which was covered in sheet ice.

[POSTMAN]

Our lot took half a walk today,packets left,so there will be a big backlog of them.

[bigchris8882]

Ours took what they can which was not much. We are now been told we owe them hours from the beginning of the week.