Soaked mail, falling to pieces.

[thefall101]

Ever been reported or, something even worse :dcfo

[DGP1]

Nope, if RM can figure out a way of keeping thin pieces of paper from getting ruined in the rain then I'll use it............maybe we should just stop delivering in the rain and snow

[thefall101]

I'm just wondering if the idiots who say, "This is not acceptable" or "Right that's it! I'm reporting you", actually go through with the threat. And the manager f***s the complaint off cause, let's face it, some thing's are bound to get soaked.

[TheCobra]

Other day I had a large letter that was absolutely sodden, I decided that it was a complaint waiting to happen, so took it back to the office, dried it on my frame and delivered it the day after.

[Lincox]

Took great delight in wringing out my D2Ds when I got back and asking for security bags to put them in for next day delivery.After all they are now as important as a special.

[Mr Rush]

I had a woman get in her car just to chase after me and ask, as I stood in the pouring rain, why her letters were all wet

The A4 sized ones are worst. They stick out of the bundle and rub against the jacket until the edges fall apart. If a load of stuff spills out I'll endorse it, bag it, and deliver the next day. Still waiting on my medals.

[IloveMYredTROLLEY!]

Amazon packaging melts in heavy rain, I was relieved to find it was a common problem when it first happened to me and found several of their parcels in bad shape.

[RedBagMan]

Accentuate the positive - look how bio-degradable everything is these days ...

[Wessex]

We were very lucky at our office because we obtained a supply of oversized heavy duty transparent RM plastic bags that we would put our pouches in before putting them on our bikes and these really

helped keep the pouches dry.

Never saw any other posties using them so guess they must have been for some other purpose.They could last up to a year if you were careful with them or the reserves didnt nick them.

As far as trying to keep letters dry I would walk round with my delivery arm under the flap of my pouch to keep the rain off the bundle iirc.

[Almighty1]

Nope, if RM can figure out a way of keeping thin pieces of paper from getting ruined in the rain then I'll use it............maybe we should just stop delivering in the rain and snow

I don't think we should deliver in the snow, especially when it's heavy.

[Doglover]

A straight forward clear plastic bag cures the problem!!!!

[fng]

A straight forward clear plastic bag cures the problem!!!!

Tied neatly and securly over the head of anyone who complains about wet mail while it's still raining.

[Lounge Lizard]

Never mind mail getting wet, what about more serious consequences of this weather ?
Not wishing to be alarmist but it only took two wet summers like this and potatoes rotting in the field to cause the Great Famine and 20% to 25% of the Irish population to die in the 1840s.
It was George Santayana, in his Reason in Common Sense The Life of Reason Vol.1, who wrote "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

[rhino49]

I use smaller bundles in the rain and try to break deliveries at an address where there is a plastic wrapped item to protect the back of the bundle from my wet jacket. We have had people say that we should take the items out of the satchel at each address, not realising that this is the best way to create a bag of porridge in 10 minutes.

[chunk]

Never mind mail getting wet, what about more serious consequences of this weather ?
Not wishing to be alarmist but it only took two wet summers like this and potatoes rotting in the field to cause the Great Famine and 20% to 25% of the Irish population to die in the 1840s.
It was George Santayana, in his Reason in Common Sense The Life of Reason Vol.1, who wrote "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

I can see this wet summer raising the cost of veg in the supermarket.
though wasnt the Irish potato famine partly caused by limited land ownership ?
most of the good pasture was owned by absentee English landlords.simply put
with more land they could have grown more than just potatoes.
not an option if you have less than an acre.
All compounded by the inactivity of the English when the the Irish needed our help.