Postmen and shorts

Gosh! Blazers!

I see them walking home from our local school wearing just shirts in terrible weather.

DH says 'They'll regret it later when they get rheumatism'

Our comprehensive must be full of postmen's children. Nothing between them and the winter weather except a polyester shirt and blazers made apparently from recycled glass. The girls wear skirts up to their bottoms and flimsy little pumps.

I asked my postman why he was wearing shorts and he said it was because trousers get wet around the bottoms .

I also mentioned this to our lovely postman. He said it was a competition at the local sorting office, who can keep their shorts on in all weathers

BlueBelle I am a little confused about pasties pottering about in the street in shorts where you are.

I passed a postwoman today who was wearing shorts with thick black tights underneath
There is a guy I see around our area who wears shorts all year except if it's snowing.

We have men not only pasties who seem to potter about the streets in the winter in shorts I ve not seen women do it and it always amazes me WHY? I've seen delivery men and a local milkman also wearing shorts and have no understanding why

I have noticed that a number of men, not only posties, are wearing shorts in all weathers. Perhaps it is a sign of global warming.??

Alima we have a lovely postwoman and yes I can confirm she wears shorts in all weathers brrrrr

My lovely postie dressed in shorts and with a thick woolly hat on his head handed in a parcel today and I'm in Scotland....

I'm going to turn the heating up!

Our posties wear shorts here in South Wales too, I heard it was to see who could wear them the longest before going into trousers, I can't remember the last time I saw a postie in trousers

Our postie wears shorts too even when it's so cold he's wearing a wooly hat.

Passing the postman in shorts, on my way to work always cheered me up . DS2 often wears shorts in the winter, his internal thermostat has always been set wrongly!

I thought they had over trousers similar to cyclists to pull on if weather was wet

Can't they wear waterproof trousers like most of the walkers I know?

I don't mind posties or builders legs,it's builders bums ,peeping out of their jeans when bending...always want to creep up and give them a wedgie

DH informs me that it is common sense to wear shorts as it is easier to dry off legs than have long soaked trousers chafing your legs all day. We are in the NE and DH wore shorts to school until 14 and for longer as a scout.

Is it just postmen or postwomen too? Maybe the chaps are trying to out do each other. No sense no feeling? Builders round here seem to have gone the same way.

My hairdressers son is a postie on discussing the subject I said that you can always tell the season by the posties uniform ,apparently it is a matter of honour who can wear them the longest without succumbing to trousers

One of the postmen on our round wears shorts in all weathers makes me shiver just watching him in the wind/rain/snow. He is often in just a t-shirt too.