Postmen taking the piss

[cHodAX]

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/201...re-postman-slips_n_1592471.html?utm_hp_ref=uk

They are famed for battling extreme weather and vicious dogs in the pursuit of providing a first class postal service.But Royal Mail says its postman have been forced to suspend deliveries during "adverse wet weather conditions" after one slipped on algae and moss on the pavement and broke his shoulder.

A number of businesses have now been told they will not have mail delivered on rainy days after a postman slipped and injured himself on a wet pavement. Instead, customers in South Parade, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, have been told to collect their post from the town's main sorting office during bad weather.

How about wearing footwear with a decent grip you idle fuckers?!?!

 

[Cerb]

Jesus Christ.

 

[ECA]

:/

 

[Shagrat]

Haha

 

[Tom]

What footwear do you recommend that does not slip on greasy wet stone surfaces? I go hiking sometimes, I'd love to find a shoe that doesn't go flying when you stand on a wet, green rock.

 

[cHodAX]

What footwear do you recommend that does not slip on greasy wet stone surfaces? I go hiking sometimes, I'd love to find a shoe that doesn't go flying when you stand on a wet, green rock.

Tom, 99.9% of the places they have to deliver to and the surfaces they have to walk on are not green covered rock but normal pavement. If they wear proper footwear then the slip risk is incredibly small. What happened to the postman was a very unfortunate accident but accidents happen and can be prevented by rational means. Not delivering the mail but continuing to pay the postmen is a slap in the face for both the customer and the taxpayer.

 

[Cerb]

 

[MYstIC G]

What footwear do you recommend that does not slip on greasy wet stone surfaces? I go hiking sometimes, I'd love to find a shoe that doesn't go flying when you stand on a wet, green rock.

Any pair used in conjunction with a pair of human eyes paying sufficient attention to the owners surroundings.

 

[Tom]

Ah right, it's the old "blame the victim" defence then. "Dear Mrs Smith. The council have examined your claim and have decided that, if your husband had been looking where he was going, he would not have fallen into the bottomless pit to hell on High Street that we inadvertently opened three weeks earlier, and around which we never thought to erect a protective barrier. We therefore reject your claim."

 

[MYstIC G]

Victim, lol.

I'm sure that's how it worked back when cavemen fell into holes, they wrote letters of complaint to <<insert deity here>> demanding compensation.

The guy fell over, the NHS (at worst) will have treated his injuries. People fall over, it's life, fucking deal with it.

Also, if he'd been paying attention he would have been sensible enough to decide it wasn't safe to traverse the path in any event and wouldn't have slipped.

 

[Tom]

The employer has a duty of care to its employees. If the council aren't doing what they're paid to do, which is ensuring that people have roads that are safe for all to use, then I think the Royal Mail have taken the correct course of action.

Put it this way - if a country road was covered in frozen ice (as happens a lot around here), and the council didn't give a shit, would you insist your employee drive along that road, despite the danger?

 

[MYstIC G]

We're not talking about iced over country roads though are we.

His mistake, he fell over, now everybody else gets to suffer a loss of service?

What a joke.

 

[Zenith.UK]

The solution is for the local council to get out and sand off the algae on that section of pavement. Job done, and Royal Mail/CWU have no excuse any more.

Fuck Royal Mail. Seriously. Fuck 'em. Universal Service Obligation does NOT mean they can take the public for granted.

 

[pez]

I hate shit like this. I was listening to the news about some kid drowning in a river and how everyone should be banned from rivers. You know what? Life happens. Death happens. You cannot eliminate death/ risk and there's a tipping point where trying to, stops life and we keep going past it.

 

[Mabs]

this smacks of "you must deliver X by Y time or get hassled by your supervisor" followed by "im carrying a fucking HUGE bag of mail so my balance was off as it was"...

so post office.. yea, fuck em
post men,.. not really their call is it :\

 

[soze]

Total horse shit this fucker could of fallen for any reason but in the pathetic nanny state everyone jumps up and looks for someone to blame. 10 years ago the guy would of got some shit form his colleagues for falling over, a manager would of made a joke about watching where you are going and we would of moved on with our lives. Now the post office is so fucking scared of a law suite that they jump to these rash and pathetic actions. he post offices job is to deliver mail, not to the nearest sorting office but to the door. There is the island where the post is delivered by plane, flying can be dangerous maybe the people there should row over to the mainland to collect the post? It really is pathetic.

 

[Tom]

We're not talking about iced over country roads though are we.

His mistake, he fell over, now everybody else gets to suffer a loss of service?

What a joke.

No, we're talking about equally slippery pavements, on which one employee slipped and broke his shoulder. Not because he wasn't paying attention, but because the pavement hasn't been cleared of detritus, as it should have been. I bet that pavement hasn't been touched for months, so what are Doncaster taxpayers actually paying their council for?

 

[Aada]

Meh my Postman is class, a nice bloke that talks to you and if you ask him will post your signed for stuff through the letter box instead of you going down to the sorting office and fetching it.

 

[Scouse]

I dont believe the story tbfh.

 

[BloodOmen]

Can't stand postmen anyway, one of the cunts left a very important letter on the ground outside with a rock on top of it despite the letterbox being 3 feet away, a very important letter that could have been used for fraud had the wrong people got hold of it.

 

[Jeros]

Having been a postman I can understand.

Also on another note delivering post is a nightmare, if your going to block entrance to your property and your letterbox, of have some massive dog in your front garden. Guess what, your not getting your post.

 

[BloodOmen]

my letterbox was obstruction free and the way our house is the letterbox is on an extension and theres another door in the way to prevent the dog from getting out or anywhere near the letterbox the postman was basically just a lazy cunt.

 

[Raven]

As people have said. The postman should look where he is going. Slippery pavements have been around for a while, as has rain. People have accidents now and again...thats life.

 

[old.Tohtori]

So we've actually come to the point where you guys turn to such women you have an argument over shoes

 

[Job]

The Royal Mail as it was is in it's death throes, just like BT was when it was the post office, basically ran for the staff and the customers came second best, people put up with their shit for years and now the competition is showing them how it's done.
If the post office can't deliver a parcel you get anote saying it will be in the sorting office tomorrow between 6am and 12am..cheers guys what fucking use is that.

 

[Roo Stercogburn]

Interestingly nobody appears to have properly read the news article.

The post service is only halted in adverse weather in one area until the council sorts the pavements in that area. So right or wrong, the Post Office have put the onus on the local council to sort the pavements... which is not unreasonable if they are not properly maintained. We can't make any kind of clear judgement on whether its justified or not without seeing the conditions of the pavements in the area. It might be codswallop, it might be justified.

Slow news day, eh?

 

[cHodAX]

Interestingly nobody appears to have properly read the news article.

The post service is only halted in adverse weather in one area until the council sorts the pavements in that area. So right or wrong, the Post Office have put the onus on the local council to sort the pavements... which is not unreasonable if they are not properly maintained. We can't make any kind of clear judgement on whether its justified or not without seeing the conditions of the pavements in the area. It might be codswallop, it might be justified.

Slow news day, eh?

Nope, not good enough. There are alot of businesses on South Parade that rely on the postal service, withdrawing that service on rainy days is a disgusting way to treat paying customers and puts the onus on those customers to address the problem when infact it should be Royal Mail giving the council hell and threatening court action if the problem isn't fixed. Instead Royal Mail bottle out and mistreat the customer who has paid upfront for a service they will not recieve. Fucking useless.

 

[Roo Stercogburn]

Nope, not good enough. There are alot of businesses on South Parade that rely on the postal service, withdrawing that service on rainy days is a disgusting way to treat paying customers and puts the onus on those customers to address the problem when infact it should be Royal Mail giving the council hell and threatening court action if the problem isn't fixed. Instead Royal Mail bottle out and beat mistreat the customer who has paid upfront for a service they will not recieve. Fucking useless.

It puts the onus on the council, not the customers. That doesn't change the responsibility of the council to maintain the pavements in a suitable fashion. BUT as I already said, its impossible to determine if the post office is being reasonable or unreasonable in this case without seeing them. Chances are the Post Office are way overreacting. But we don't know that from this news article.

 

[cHodAX]

No it doesn't mate. The customer is forced to travel to collect thier mail, Royal Mail know the customer will not be happy with that and will kick up a stink with the council. What Royal Mail have done is shunted the problem onto the paying customer, who pay in advance for a service they will no longer recieve when Royal Mail managers arbitrarily decide to suspend the service on rainy days which in South Yorkshire is about 100 days a year.

 

[Gwadien]

I blame the council, not the postman.

What if a copper is chasing a criminal, slips over, criminal gets away - coppers fault?

Whilst yes, shit does happen, it does sorta make sense why they do it, because if they send all their postmen out on a wet day and where the council is known for having shit pavements, then even 10 of the postmen come back saying I can't come in tomorrow because I've damaged something, and that tomorrow turns into a further 3-4 days, it's not the army, it's not like they have a team of reinforcements at the ready to jump in and take over the work, they'll have a few peeps to do so, but not loads.