When does hot become unworkable and dangerous ? : ***Announcement made Sat 16-Page 6***

[POSTPERSON50]

41 degrees tomorrow, sickies will be high, mail left in, posties pis*ed off.

Managers on strike on Wednesday aswell? No chance that will happen.

[aiden01]

41 degrees tomorrow, sickies will be high, mail left in, posties pis*ed off.

Managers on strike on Wednesday aswell? No chance that will happen.

Strike has been suspended. while they vote on new offer.

[smok3y666]

We been told we can start at 5am today and tomorrow so home before 1pm Thanks boss

[Hanzey]

We are working with c***s...

RE:

Jenny 'Miss unfortunately Hall' Director Corporate Affairs at Royal Mail Group
where did you get this from?

Pointed out to 'miss unfortunately' that it's from Royal Mail's Severe Weather Risk Assessment Guidance



Like I said, we're working with...

Don't suppose I can get a link to this document, matey?

[TOWER1]

42 degrees van now.
That's enough.
Done for today.

[blue1873]

Just check out Simons phew what a scorcher thread, straight from the horse's mouth.

"Phew Simon " doesn't give a monkey's about your wellbeing
and wether its "Hotter Than July" just make sure you do your
lapsing.......Cretin

[Geranium X]

If document is current and correct , it seems pretty unambiguous, surely deliveries should be suspended where a Red alert is in place ?

[IloveMYredTROLLEY!]

In amber warning zone, while local weather stations reading ~32C (which will almost certainly be in the shade), personal thermometer was reading 36C+ from 1130 in direct sun, briefly hit 39C.

Could have abandoned delivery altogether, but just did parcels for final half hour and then it was time to walk back to the depot, all the while keeping hydrated and soaking hat/shirt.

[nightcrawler]

It was a normal day in our office we were given the option of starting 2 hours early, only about half the office took it. The rest of us had to work until normal time. We were told that they were “monitoring” the temperatures and if it reached 35 we would get a message on our PDAs to return to office. Unsurprisingly, we never received a message. Probably be the same tomorrow, unless a lot of posties are taken ill today, or worse.

[Clappedoutpostie]

It was a normal day in our office we were given the option of starting 2 hours early, only about half the office took it. The rest of us had to work until normal time. We were told that they were “monitoring” the temperatures and if it reached 35 we would get a message on our PDAs to return to office. Unsurprisingly, we never received a message. Probably be the same tomorrow, unless a lot of posties are taken ill today, or worse.

Download the met office app, you can be the judge of when it hits 35c then

[Dorset Plodder]

All our duties went out today. It's Monday so it was light. I was one of the last back at 1230 (basically because I like to take my meal relief out on the ground).

Highest Temperature I had was 33, felt hotter because we didn't have the refreshing breeze we've previously had.

Here's an idea instead of ranting & raving on here about who should be doing what ... Just act like a grown up, use your own common sense and if you feel it's too hot ... kick it into touch and return to base. I'm sure most of the Management will have disappeared by midday anyway.

[POSTMAN]

We are working with c***s...

RE:

Jenny 'Miss unfortunately Hall' Director Corporate Affairs at Royal Mail Group
where did you get this from?

Pointed out to 'miss unfortunately' that it's from Royal Mail's Severe Weather Risk Assessment Guidance



Like I said, we're working with...

Don't suppose I can get a link to this document, matey?

***ROYAL MAIL COMMS ON RED WEATHER WARNING MONDAY AND TUESDAY.***

[taurus88]

Pretty poor from the CWU to be honest - I don’t think 35 degrees is a great starting point for manual labour when your workforce is comprised mostly of older people. Significant parts of England are going to touch 40 degrees tomorrow, and the union is leaving most of the staff to fend for themselves. They know full well that there’s an implied pressure once you’ve taken the work out, and few of us have any reliable means of gauging temperature on the ground.

I personally don’t think deliveries should go ahead at all tomorrow, but if they do, there should be an ironclad cut-off time. We all have the forecasts at our disposal - 30 degrees by 10am seems likely based off of them. It’s alright coming in early, but the vans come at the same time meaning that you’re going out the door just as a warm morning is melting into a hot day. And no amount of warm water or stops in the shade alleviates the symptoms of the heat, anything from tiredness to elevated heart-rate and difficulty breathing.

It’s pretty gutless to have a document saying that red weather warnings will lead to the suspension of deliveries, only to communicate to members that, if it goes beyond really hot to hellishly hot, they’ll back you if you come back off delivery. Back us in the first place before we go out on delivery, and we wouldn’t have to perform an ongoing risk assessment while being in a less than optimal state of body and mind to perform such things. Still, that’s the CWU for you. When was the last time our union men did a delivery on a hot or busy day?

[Hanzey]

We are working with c***s...

RE:

Jenny 'Miss unfortunately Hall' Director Corporate Affairs at Royal Mail Group
where did you get this from?

Pointed out to 'miss unfortunately' that it's from Royal Mail's Severe Weather Risk Assessment Guidance



Like I said, we're working with...

Don't suppose I can get a link to this document, matey?

***ROYAL MAIL COMMS ON RED WEATHER WARNING MONDAY AND TUESDAY.***

Cheers. I've just recalled the members out on collections

[Mazda]

Who has decided in the first place that it is acceptable to walk miles in this heat when all health experts are saying its life threatening? 32 in the shade here now, finished at 11.30, van thermometer said 33 when we parked up.