Rules regarding mail delivery.

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What about when you deliver somewhere with no parking and if the next street is also rammed with cars? How are we supposed to deliver parcels whilst not leaving the van unattended for more than 10 minutes, not parking on pavements or double yellows etc??? Has anyone ever been to the local councils to ask for dedicated postal worker parking spaces? Or some other useful solution because trying to deliver 1 parcel to an area with no parking means other people don't get theirs?

You are allowed to stop on double yellow lines to make deliveries.

Only if there is space to do it. Round my delivery round there is roadside parking for the residents, so no double yellows. streets and streets of roadside parking, one way streets and no access to deliver parcels if people are at home....like they are over the xmas holidays.

Mate, there is nearly always space or a solution. You might need to get yourself a sack barrow. I previously worked as a casual in central London, and even then there was always a solution - put all four wheels up on the pavement, stop in a bus lane, stop on red route, worst ways (think Regent Street, Oxford Street, etc) using a sack barrow.

Worth remembering that 99.9% of parking enforcement schemes expressly allow RM vehicles to stop wherever needed. The Traffic Management Orders permitting councils to enforce nearly always have exclusions, eg,

Nothing in this Order shall render it unlawful to cause or permit a vehicle to wait in any restricted street:

(a)while postal packets addressed to premises adjacent to any such street in which the vehicle is waiting are being unloaded from the vehicle, or having been unloaded therefrom, are being delivered;
(b) while postal packets are being collected for loading on the vehicle from premises or posting boxes in or adjacent to any such street in which the vehicle is waiting or, having been so collected, are being loaded thereon;

That said, whatever you do, never park on zigzag markings — three points on your licence if nicked for it…