Putting The Pen right on postmen

[TrueBlueTerrier]

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IN reply to Mick, The Pen, Brown (What happened to early post delivery, Echo Letters, Aug 29).

 Years ago, postmen started work at 5am, now most do not start until 6.30am or 7am, therefore later starts mean they leave the sorting office later.

 My husband has been a postman for forty years, and I can tell you this is no easy way to make a living.

 On average, each postman or postwoman carries out between five to eight bags of mail each due to the volume – this is why a trolley is needed. Can you carry five bags of mail on your back?

 Royal Mail has cut its workforce in half over the last ten years, doubling the area each worker has to cover. This is why the vans are needed.

 As for them being unfit, most postmen and postwomen are delivering on the street for four to five hours, try doing this in all weathers without a break.

 Royal Mail deliver six days a week, 52 weeks of the year. Well Mick, The Pen, would you do this job? Or would it interfere with your letter writing time to the Echo?

 Our postmen and postwomen deserve credit, not a kick in the teeth from someone who knows nothing about the job they do.

 I have replied to your letter as my postman husband has just got in and is exhausted after a hard day’s work. Are you tired after all your complaining?

Jeanette Collins,

Via email.

[redneck]

Well said Jeanette!

[postmanplod69]

Check mick the pens twitter account 'why are postman so unfit?its past 10am and still no mail these slackers are unfit.
Wonder what he does for a living, bet he wouldn't last a day as a postie. This was posted Thursday morning a week after his letter to the sunderland echo