Posties, how many steps do you average in a week?

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KingStevoI@reddit

Not a postie but 1,000 steps is roughly 0.4 - 0.5 miles, or 10 minutes of walking, obviously depending on body and speed factors.

There are plenty of routes where streets are at least half a mile long and they're not just walking it once, but up and down, across, and in and out of pathways. I'd imagine one street like this would amass 2-2.5k steps fairly easily.

50k sounds far-fetched but I bet it isn't that far off what some do a day.

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Necessary_Collar_490@reddit

The indoor work is a lot of steps too, I used to average between 6 and 10k before setting off on my round, just lots back and forwards. Was between 30 and 40k on my round, so between 35 and 50 on an average day. Its not as far fetched as you think it is

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Dry_Yogurt2458@reddit

50K is a marathon almost. A marathon every day for 6 days a week consistently (these guys are delivering letters with no break) over the course of a year, with no recovery time, is not going to happen. Those of us that run Ultra marathons will tell you how much strain a marathon a day for 5 days (multi day events) puts strain on your body

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curedbacon@reddit

Running a marathon every day for sure isn't sustainable but walking one at a sustainable pace with a few pauses to have a proper drink and catch your breath is.

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Appropriate-Roof1422@reddit

6 days a week? Are you joking? Do it come back to comment unless you are a super athlete.

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curedbacon@reddit

What does being an athlete have to do with it?

It's walking... Once your body acclimates to it, walking long distances for hours is not a punishing task provided you have decent footwear and the terrain is even.

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Appropriate-Roof1422@reddit

Pace and fatigue matters. It's way different if you walk with a speed of 6.2 km/h to 5 km/h, for 7-8 hours and for 6 days a week. Try it.

I would also suggest you do high pace morning walk (>6 km/hour) before work and do one after a full-day's work to see your speed. I regularly do 130 k steps per week for 5 days. The 6th day I can do another 10 k, but much slower.

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curedbacon@reddit

Roger that. Currently stood by my front door with a speed gun ready to clock my postie.

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Appropriate-Roof1422@reddit

I was trying to break it down for you. Apologies if It came across the wrong way.

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Arbdew@reddit

I am not very tall and don't have long legs. Did a charity walk a few years ago and 55k steps for me was 17 miles. Leg length/step length will vary the distance hugely.

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Virtual_Opinion_8630@reddit

mate it's just walking

your body adapts

they're not running it

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Queen_of_London@reddit

The 50k steps doesn't even all have to be at work. She could walk a couple of miles to work, own a dog, or have a young child (or grandchild).

It is a fuckload of steps, though. Her joints will be ground down like those old pumice stones we use to have in baths in the 80s.

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toastandjam97@reddit

Yep! Lots of really dismissive rude comments on here that just go to show that people think it’s a postman pat wandering about job. It’s real hard work especially since the privatisation of the company between 2013-2015.

Depending on walks and area that isn’t far fetched at all. My dad has been a postman for about 20 years and it is hard work not just a ‘walk in the park’ if you’ll excuse the pun.

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Scarred_fish@reddit

Sounds pretty normal. On site work I average 6000 an hour, so in at 8 hour day thats 48k, posites will be walking a fair bit more so it's not near as unusual as a lot of people on this thread are making it out to be.

I've seen people on threads like this say they do as little as 3000 steps a day, but I can't see how you can live without doing more than that, unless you're dragging yourself along with your arse on the ground like a cat with worms.

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Separate_Rise_8932@reddit

I used to think the same as someone who's always done active work, and doesn't drive, but I realised for a lot of people its home - a few steps to car - few steps to work door, 8+ hours of sitting- a few steps to where they have lunch - a few steps back to car - a few steps back to their home.

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Scarred_fish@reddit

I've heard that, yes, but I often have similar days, but when you get home you don't just stand still! Normal activities add thousands of steps, even just pottering around the garden for a few hours, you're always moving.

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Separate_Rise_8932@reddit

Many don't, some get home and lounge sround, until they pee/shower 🤷‍♀️

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Scarred_fish@reddit

Christ, if true that sounds insufferable lol

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Queen_of_London@reddit

I think 3000 is pretty normal if you work from home - or drive to the office to sit at a desk - and don't have young kids or a dog.

The postie's estimation doesn't sound weird to me either. There's just a really wide variation in jobs and lifestyles.

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Separate_Rise_8932@reddit

It's believable. I've worked a few warehouses that averaged 28-30k steps a day. My current role im hospitality, isn't much less, or more ona double shift. I can see how walking streets would get you to 50k steps easily.

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ValuableForever672@reddit

The postie is walking 40km a day????? I think not.

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ValuableForever672@reddit

Don't understand why im getting downvoted for this. 40km a day is almost a marathon.... In stand by it.

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Appropriate-Roof1422@reddit

Because apparantly most of the people who say is doable have never done 300 k steps in a week. One step is about 0.75-0.9 m. I wonder if they tried to some basic maths.
You can probably do it for one week, but I don't see it getting done every week.

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TroublesZoo@reddit

Are your regular walking steps a metre long?! Mines certainly are not and I'm 6'2!

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phatboi23@reddit

a meter long walking stride? you off your rocker?

they'd have to be something like 7ft tall.

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mellonians@reddit

The British Army marching pace is 30 inches which at 50,000 is 38km. I would expect a lady postie to be doing a lot less than that, with about-turns and shuffles thrown in.

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ValuableForever672@reddit

yet im getting downvoted.... a postie probably walks 20km a day max.

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BusyBeeBridgette@reddit

I walk 15km a day and I work behind a desk. 40km is about right for some one whose job mostly involves walking.

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Dry_Yogurt2458@reddit

That's near enough a marathon a day every day for 6 days a week continuously. it's not happening

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Jemima_puddledook678@reddit

You probably think wrong. I walk 30k+ steps a day, and I probably work slightly shorter shifts and spend less time walking.

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Nielips@reddit

Steps, not km.

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MrDavieT@reddit

A consistent 1 metre stride with each step…?!

I think not

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Dry_Yogurt2458@reddit

During my last 100K ultra I took 160,000 steps. There is no way a Postie is taking 300,000 steps in a working week unless they are Jasmin Paris

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Ok-Yogurtcloset3467@reddit

Where have you got 300,000 from?

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Dry_Yogurt2458@reddit

50k x 6 days

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Appropriate-Roof1422@reddit

I second this.

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Appropriate-Roof1422@reddit

Sounds excessive. If they have said 35-40k steps, I would say yes. I work as a manager in a big supermarket and I do 30k easily and on busy days around 38k. I am constantly moving cages, pallets, checking my team et cetera for 9-10 hours straight.

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mdmnl@reddit

Our postie does 40k steps a day. We chat, it came up. Nothing to do with him having sexy legs.

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pixel-powder@reddit

Sure Jan 🤣

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SureJan4244@reddit

You called?

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pixel-powder@reddit

🤣🤣🤣

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Flavour-saver@reddit

Iam a postie and do between 25000-40000 per day depending on the route.. once you add an overloaded and poorly designed bag it makes for a great workout!

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spatz_uk@reddit

Friend of mine is a postie and records his deliveries on Strava. He does about 13.5 miles per day (does seem to vary), around 21000 steps. Averages 64 miles per week.

He absolutely fulfils the stereotype in that he wears shorts in all weather, all year round.

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weatherwaxs_broom@reddit

I average around 30-35,000 steps a day, if she has a larger round I can absolutely believe it.

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ambiguousboner@reddit

My mates dad is a postie, and he’s fat as shit

Very blagging

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glytxh@reddit

Between 15-20k steps a day.

I just like walking, and I have some very nice forests on my doorstep.

So in excess of 100k per week.

8-10 miles average a day isn’t abnormal for me.

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reece0n@reddit

Sounds about right, my father in law did over 40k consistently as a postie

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cazchaos@reddit

I used to do 30k a day working in retail so I can only imagine how much more posties must do

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CodeBeginning6548@reddit

50k is total bull. I was a postie for many years. My rounds were massive and were all walking based, I averaged about 25-35k per day.

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MrMotorcycle94@reddit

I walked 33km the weekend just gone and my watch recorded 41,53p steps and it was exhausting leaving me with blisters and posties are just doing this daily?

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Chocolate_Kettle@reddit

Average 25k steps a day (18 km for me). More if Christmas. 50k is very far fetched and honestly not realistic especially if doing that everyday.

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WhalingSmithers00@reddit

25-35k depending on how busy it is.

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SceneDifferent1041@reddit

My local one must sometimes get to 50 before giving up.

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Virtual_Opinion_8630@reddit

I asked someone here a few days ago

he did 25-30k

50k sounds like a LOT

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