nanna8
Our postman today was riding a pushbike. Usually they have a motorbike these days. Are they cutting costs or was he a health conscious person? Must be a bit heavy carrying the mail around that way. I should point out that we are lucky if they deliver more than twice a week here- not sure why. This is 4.30 pm in the afternoon, obviously our road is not a mail priority!
Any other blasts from the past happening where you live?
One of my DC in Australia mentioned this a while ago, nanna8 (could be two years). She spoke to the overloaded postman, who was very unhappy that his van had been exchanged for a pushbike, due to the restructuring of Australia Post which also caused a lot of redundancies, apparently.
The service from Australia Post seems to be dire now, if you don't mind me saying! No parcel delivery even in cities and parcels have to be collected from the Post Office. It's very slow and far worse than the service here in the UK.
And, of course, in more rural areas, no post is delivered, it has to be collected from the nearest shop with a PO facility.
I hope ours here doesn't go the same way.
Our postman in the UK still has a van.