I knew it! The lazy good-for-nothings aren’t delivering post in the snow.
Last winter, I wrote of my suspicions that the Royal Mail wasn’t delivering during the bad weather, because the usual supply of junk mails and circulars had dried up. I’m waiting for something now, and it is suspiciously late – and I know it has gone by Royal Mail instead of courier.
Watching the local BBC News (Central) just now, they have confirmed that they are not delivering in the bad weather in some areas. Apparently, some workers slipped and hurt themselves last year (when they weren’t delivering anyway – obviously unofficially, as I speculated back then). Apparently the union is involved.
I’ve also written before – many times – about unions. They are an antiquated throwback to the Victorian Era and the sooner they cease to exist, the better it will be all round.
Haven’t any of these troublemaking fossils ever thought of trying to find a way forward, instead of always looking for one backwards? Even when I was a kid you could buy snow grippers which clamped over your normal shoes. You used to see tham in the small ads in the Sunday papers every week. The 21st Century equivalent – and there are numerous suppliers of similar equipment – is these ones by Yaktrax. They fit over any shoe – trainers, walking boots, the lot.
Why the hell can’t those lazy morons who are supposed to deliver the mail use these?
Mind you, it can’t be all of them – just the lazy unionised ones. While I was out today I saw one postie delivering on his bike. And he wasn’t wearing gloves, either – though he’d obviously drawn the line at the usual knee-length shorts.