Scouts' post service battles the winter weather

[TrueBlueTerrier]

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Local Scouts are battling the winter conditions to deliver Christmas cards.

Groups across the region are taking part in the annual Scout Post service.

The service started in the late 1980s and is designed to raise funds for Scout troops.

One of the local schemes is run in the Driffield area. They serve a host of small villages across the Yorkshire Wolds.

The service runs between 25 November and 1 January and a stamp costs 20p. Last year they delivered about 20,000 cards.

Local shops act as a drop off point for the mail. It is then collected and delivered to homes in towns and villages across the Yorkshire Wolds.

The Driffield scheme has been running since 1987 and has a network of about 90 volunteers. As well as the teenage scouts many of the volunteers are retired; with some in their eighties.

Chairman of the Driffield and District Scouts Phil Rounce helps run the scheme. He said it is the biggest fundraiser for local scout troops.

Like the Royal Mail, the Scout Post has been struggling with the bad weather. According to Mr Rounce the continuing cold-snap has hampered deliveries:

"We can get the post to our main distributors. We have a network of distributors and deliverers. But, we're not encouraging the deliverers to go out yet until the paths improve. Unless they know their area's safe."

[Wessex]

Struggling with the weather .. blah blah blah ... not like the scouts in my day blah blah blah

[Broxi51]

Lazy little beggars. It's only snow!!!!

[Wessex]

lol

[Lounge Lizard]

They should 'Be Prepared' for snow.

[DGP1]

I thought they just put stamps on them and let us deliver them