Severve Weather and Royal Mail

[mazza111]

seen on an x colleagues facebook that he had a lucky escape with corrugated roofing, a chimney stack and lots of other flying debris. As usual management don't care. Glad I'm out lol

[TrueBlueTerrier]

It was bad here this morning, at some stages I found it difficult to stand up but at least we have RM to help us out................we got told to hold on to the doors when opening them so that they didn't get damaged

One guy at our DO got a warning for damaging a van door when the wind took it out of his hand as he was out on delivery (up the side of a mountain). I pulled a muscle in my shoulder trying to stop the van door blowing open and it actually pulled me out of the van seat

I'm a big strong man and I can struggle to hold onto a door when it's caught by the wind so I feel sorry for others who don't have the strength.

You feel sorry for our managers , nearly every day I hear them say "Give me strength....."

[DGP1]

It was bad here this morning, at some stages I found it difficult to stand up but at least we have RM to help us out................we got told to hold on to the doors when opening them so that they didn't get damaged

One guy at our DO got a warning for damaging a van door when the wind took it out of his hand as he was out on delivery (up the side of a mountain). I pulled a muscle in my shoulder trying to stop the van door blowing open and it actually pulled me out of the van seat

I'm a big strong man and I can struggle to hold onto a door when it's caught by the wind so I feel sorry for others who don't have the strength.

You feel sorry for our managers , nearly every day I hear them say "Give me strength....."

You really are going to get me a bad name

[TeeferTiger]

seen on an x colleagues facebook that he had a lucky escape with corrugated roofing, a chimney stack and lots of other flying debris. As usual management don't care. Glad I'm out lol

Where the hell was he?! Oz?! lol

[cyrus]

I got no warning about the weather as I'm a part timer.Warning was given to the full timers when they started their shift.Be careful out there... blah blah.Nothing about bringing mail back, if it's to dangerous.Failed a bit of my duty and decided to extend the rest.Ended up nearly 2 hours over.I had few packets and letters blow out of my hand.

I'm in the west of Scotland.Schools,shops,factory's etc are closed or have shut early.But to RM it's just a bit of wind.On my route it looks like something out of 28 days later..Very quite and eerie with lots of destruction everywhere....I still can't believe I was sent out.

[krussel]

I got no warning about the weather as I'm a part timer.Warning was given to the full timers when they started their shift.Be careful out there... blah blah.Nothing about bringing mail back, if it's to dangerous.Failed a bit of my duty and decided to extend the rest.Ended up nearly 2 hours over.I had few packets and letters blow out of my hand.

I'm in the west of Scotland.Schools,shops,factory's etc are closed or have shut early.But to RM it's just a bit of wind.On my route it looks like something out of 28 days later..Very quite and eerie with lots of destruction everywhere....I still can't believe I was sent out.

Jesus sounds terrible

[Lincox]

Is the final decision to go out not made by the employee?

[steven100]

This is a ideal chance for our wonderful union to ask rm management why they allowed employees to go out delivering mail in unsafe working conditions.

[bunkerland]

David Icke is my hero

Was he not the one who went completely mad after watching a best of 35 frame snooker match between Cliff Thorburn and Eddie Charlton?

[TeeferTiger]

Is the final decision to go out not made by the employee?

Yes... but then you've got peer pressure etc to deal with. Easy decision to make on paper, not so easy to make when one person has the macho man attitude and others feel they have to follow suit

[DGP1]

I'm sure brothermagrew will be along to confirm this but there should have been a severe weather risk assessment done today for the areas affected by the wind (done by both the DOM and the local H&S rep) which would determine whether it was safe to deliver today. knowing RM as I do there probably wasn't as it is too much hassle for the DOM to explain it upwards.

[TeeferTiger]

When we had the snow a few years back, I explained to the DOM (who was working from home because he couldn't get into work) that we still had several inches of snow, impacted ice etc, we decided between us that it was to dangerous for the staff to go out and made the decision to suspend deliveries that day. The staff had other ideas and went out anyway, so you can't win.

[krussel]

Just seen the weather on Sky and Scotland is going to be hit with 90 mph winds (160mph on the mountains). They say it will run till the early morning with freezing temps.

We getting 60 mph down south .

[TeeferTiger]

Just seen the weather on Sky and Scotland is going to be hit with 90 mph winds (160mph on the mountains). They say it will run till the early morning with freezing temps.

We getting 60 mph down south .

And you're still moaning about it, ya blooming soft suvverners!

[krussel]

Just seen the weather on Sky and Scotland is going to be hit with 90 mph winds (160mph on the mountains). They say it will run till the early morning with freezing temps.

We getting 60 mph down south .

And you're still moaning about it, ya blooming soft suvverners!

To right i might need some extra gel in case it might mess up my hair