Not seen that in a long,long while

Good on them! I am happy to hear it. Plenty of Carers here do their rounds on foot or on bike.

Where we lived previously, the post lady did her deliveries on a bike.
Where we live now, the postman comes in a van, parks and delivers in the local area on foot.

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.

We get a man round here calling 'any old iron' but I never see him. I'm not sure what he actually collects.

I wish someone would put leaflets through the doors saying when they would collect old electricals, that would be very handy. Then you could leave them out.

I haven't seen post deliveries by moped/motorbike either.

The postman drives here in a van then walks around with the post. It arrives anytime between 10.30 and 1.30.

Lyra is "awful" in my opinion too Vintagejazz and karmalady - I don't think anyone says it's impractical, it's just really unattractive to see.
I think that's the extent of the "awfulness" of it.

I wore a leotard for ages for dancing and drama studio work but would never have wanted to wear it outside. It was totally practical for the job it's designed to do. Likewise swimsuits in the pool etc.

I suppose if the "awful" bike lycra was only worn at the track no-one would bother commenting. It just (to my eyes) seems so out-of-place on the high Street!

I am aware that there are road races BTW!

Living in a rural area, our post is delivered by van.

I wear that `awful` lycra gear, why is it awful vintagejazz? It is so very practical for those of us that want to exercise by riding a bike.

I saw a man cycling along the other day all dressed up in a suit. That used to be a common sight but nowadays they usually wearing shorts or joggers or that awful lycra gear.

Our posties use vans pushbikes and trollies it’s a lady on the bike though lol. Used to love the coal man and milkman with horse and carts.

I thought our postmen had to stop using bikes years ago, health and safety I think.

I remember British Gas used to send apprentices out on push bikes for jobs,and the milk mans horse and cart,havent seen them for a while

Well we don’t have postmen on motorbikes they are either on push bikes or walking with trollers or bags I expect they have shorter rounds than ‘down under’ though

I saw policemen walking.

I've never seen a postman with a motorbike. In our area they either walk, normally with a trolley but sometimes carrying the post or they drive a van in the more rural areas. Sometimes they use a combination, drive to the area, park up and walk round then move on to the next area.
Must admit I haven't seen them using a bike for a while.