Whether it's freezing rain or shine, postal workers are still out filling your mailboxes.

It takes 30 minutes to get each mail truck de-iced and ready to go.

But once the trucks were ready, it was still a long icy day ahead for mail carriers like Brenda Beattie.

"Nobody likes the winter, but you just go and do it. You're used to it, you do it every year. You know it's going to happen. You just do it and know spring's coming," Beattie said.

Seeing spring on the horizon doesn't make it any easier though.

"A lot harder because you have on six layers of clothes which normally wouldn't have on and climbing steps and painted porches, sidewalks," Beattie said.

After 12 years delivering the mail, Beattie said she concentrates on staying on her feet on the ice.

"You can't deliver the mail if you fall and get hurt, so the biggest thing for me is not to fall, constantly thinking ‘Don't fall’," Beattie said.

But, braving a potential fall is part of the job.

"Our mission is to serve that customer out on the route. They're waiting for their check today, waiting for their mail and we're going to do our best to get it to them," Shawn Wagoner from the U.S. Postal Service said.

So, one step at a time, and one mailbox at a time, carriers like Beattie are making sure you don't go a day without your mail.

The U.S. Postal Service did call in extra carriers to help split routes, so everyone could get their mail.