Mail on cold days.

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

Hi, I did not see the mail person on my street today. Are there any rules about not delivering mail on very cold days like today? I would hate being the mail person delivering mail with real feel temperature under zero. I was just wondering if it's codified in some rule.

Comments

[ron_newman]

Cold slows a lot of people down, so perhaps your mail carrier is just later than usual.

Edit: I got my US mail as usual today.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

"Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor hail shall keep the postmen from their appointed rounds."

So says teh intarwebs, FWIW.

[suzybuzz.livejournal.com]

okay, i officially don't want to go outside.

[srakkt.livejournal.com]

I kinda do, but I didn't wear my super-duper high-performance cold weather coat; rather just my handsome woolen. So I'm inside.

[m00n.livejournal.com]

Notice they don't list volcano (or extremely high winds for that matter)

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

Man. I hate it when the volcano delays mail in Somerville.

[m00n.livejournal.com]

srsly! Also meteorite!

[thismightbejess.livejournal.com]

Is the weather catastrophic today? You'd think I'd notice...

[srakkt.livejournal.com]

it's below freezing and very windy, so rather unpleasant without the right attire. I should have worn my other coat.

[sparkgrrl658.livejournal.com]

i've stayed securely indoors thus far...i was going to go out to my car to grab a couple things, but i can hear the wind pretty damn clearly and it's keeping me right here in a blanket lol.

[ominousspectre.livejournal.com]

I threw on a thin sweatshirt to go to the corner market and didn't notice that it was much colder than any other day has been. It was cold enough that I realized a coat would be necessary for a longer walk, but not so cold that I was in any kind of pain (which is usually my barometer of bad weather in New England).

Also my dad is a retired mailman, and the only days I remember him not delivering mail was when the snow was so heavy that the plows couldn't even get down the main streets (otherwise, he'd park every couple of blocks and walk through the snow).

[en-ki.livejournal.com]

(The female City Carriers, on the other hand, are exempt from going out when it's a little nippy.)

[suzybuzz.livejournal.com]

it's the absolute worst weather for not having a car

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Also when it's really noisy from airplanes! :-)

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

I wish I had a high-performance winter coat. All I have is the wool coat, and it's not enough for a day like today. Yet out I must go. This is not going to be fun...

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

I hear ya on that. I'm cursing my hippie self right now.

[sparkgrrl658.livejournal.com]

yes. even though i have a car, when i work i usually take the T if i can. i used to work at a software company in kendall over by genzyme, and it was a HELL.

kendall is a wind tunnel anyway, so this was just like, the absolute worst. also crappy was the fact that pretty much everyone else had lots of money and drove nice cars and could afford the crazy monthly garage rent. so they'd look all composed, having been outdoors leaving their own house for all of two seconds, and i'd walk in all red faced and snot frozen on, hair well...you get the idea.

do not miss that!

Awwwwww!

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

Did they think you were a weirdo? :)

I think if you go out...

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

Any exposed body surface will freeze rather quickly in this weather. It's -10 RealFeel, according to the Boston Globe.

Re: Awwwwww!

[sparkgrrl658.livejournal.com]

basically lol.

my boss also would NEVER accept when i was late because of the T having issues. i couldn't call because i was underground. she was always saying things like 'well every one else always makes it to work on time every day, i just can't believe the subway could have problems that bad!' and it was like uh...yeah. you and everyone else who has never ridden public transportation in their life.

That's why I live in Somerville

[http://users.livejournal.com/_mattt/]

The closest volcano to Somerville (+42.3965 -71.1225) is Saba (last eruption 1636) in the Netherlands Antilles, 2854 km away. There aren't a whole lot of places farther away on Earth from active volcanoes than New England.

Re: Awwwwww!

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

I'm overgeneralizing here, but I hate snooty, spoiled, bastards! :)

Re: That's why I live in Somerville

[m00n.livejournal.com]

Admittedly, the possibility is fairly remote.

[zaarwin-devolve.livejournal.com]

Agreed. When I moved up here, everybody kept asking if I was ready for the winters up here, like they were the stuff of legend. Maybe it's truly rough in, say, northern New Hampshire. To somebody who grew up in a similar climate, this is nothing. My hands get colder quicker and my sinuses dry out but that's about it. Even then, chemical warmers work fine, and proper cold weather gear keeps me toasty even during late-night runs.

The upshot: this town is full of wimps. :) People think I look like a twig and I still wish it were colder outside. (Then again, I run in this kind of weather, so I'm a bit of a loon.)

[ron_newman]

It really wasn't that bad tonight. I walked from Back Bay station to the Boston Center for the Arts, and then from Park Street station to the West End restaurant, and neither walk was especially daunting.

Re: That's why I live in Somerville

[ethanfield.livejournal.com]

Kinda trippy that the Netherlands Antilles is closer than Mt. St. Helens in Washington.

[sparkgrrl658.livejournal.com]

i don't think it's really a matter of temperature, per se. at least for me, it's the combination of the fact that it's cold, always raining, most of the city is in an insane wind tunnel, and a lot of us are having to walk in it and/or standing out in it forever waiting for the T. (not that driving in it is any better, with our aggressive nutjob style and nonsensical roads)

it's kind of like, yeah, it probably gets way hotter in arizona or texas, but everything there is air conditioned so you don't have to deal with it if you don't want to.

Re: That's why I live in Somerville

[http://users.livejournal.com/_mattt/]

Dostero, CO is actually closer than Mt. St. Helens, although its last eruption was in 2200BC.

Still no need to buy volcano insurance, if you ask me.

Re: That's why I live in Somerville

[srakkt.livejournal.com]

Also, Saba is a happy place to be.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

"...shall stay these couriers from their appointed rounds" is the original text. Both gender-neutral and elegant!

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

"Don't arsk us about:
rocks
troll's with sticks
all sorts of dragons
Mrs. Cake
huje green things with teeth
any kinds of black dogs with orange eyebrows
rains of spaniel's
fog
Mrs. Cake"

--Terry Pratchett
(sorry, someone had to)