Yesterday mid morning (during the restricted hours) I saw a mail van edge its way through the many pedestrians down Northbrook Street and carefully wind its way through the crowd on the bridge. It stopped by the town hall and the driver got out and emptied the mail box. It then drove on to the sorting office.
Yes, I accept it might have been part of a longer round - but the fact remains that this was an unnecessary trip. No commercial organisation is able to do anything like this at this time of day. Equally, given the proximity of the sorting office, it would have been far quicker to walk.
The mail people seemed to have gulled our Councillors into thinking there is something really special about them making them exempt from normal regulations.
Quite apart from the obvious safety considerations, this is hardly sustainable - using a heavy van to empty town centre boxes. Equally, in process terms, its not exactly commercially viable.
Little wonder the mail service in UK is in such a mess when they consider this acceptable