Columbia, S.C. (WOLO) — Operations in the Midlands and Upstate have been hampered because roads and highways have been impassible, limiting the number of employees who were able to get to work and impacting the postal service’s ability to move mail between facilities.

Even for 30-year-old postal worker veteran, Shane Hollohan, this week’s snow and ice storm in the Midlands, he says, was unprecedented.

“You can’t walk at your normal gait,” he said on his normal foot-route in the Shandon area. “You gotta move real careful as you’re walking. The footing’s worse on people’s steps.”

When he’s delayed, so is your mail.

“It slows you down.”

His colleagues, who spend most of their time driving, have been hard hit, too. One viewer sent us a photo of a mail truck stuck on the snow and ice, immovable, on Garner’s Ferry Road.

Postal Service Gets ‘Licked’ by Ice Storm