12th December 2010  

I arrived back in our area late on Thursday night last week, and on Friday morning I was up early to visit the Royal Mail sorting office in Crewkerne at 7.45am. In the old days, 7.45am would count as pretty late morning, but the post now arrives in the sorting offices later, which is why many of you will now be getting your post delivered later in the day. The team in Crewkerne seemed to be in good spirits, and unaffected by the recent snow and ice. Royal Mail had even recently issued the team with special ice grips to fit onto the underside of shoes, through apparently quite a few of the “spikes” fell out after a bit of use! Staff numbers at the Crewkerne Centre are up this year, as the four postmen who used to be based at the Stoke sub Hamdon sorting office have had to be relocated to Crewkerne since the closure of the Stoke office. The Post Office is now looking to provide...