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Surveillance of Delivery Drivers

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oldrope
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Re: Surveillance of Delivery Drivers

Post by oldrope »

weather1 wrote:Hello RM Chat
Please could you help. I was followed by a surveillance team last week and will now be reprimanded. Please can you tell me if you are under surveillance by Royal Mail - is this allowed without any warning? I thought you had to be advised if you were under any kind of surveillance? My work record is clean so it is not based on any previous problem? Feeling very singled out. Other workers were alerted to the presence after I called in the situation to my office and I am therefore the only one.
Kind regards
Lee

Hi. If you are getting followed go to the nearest house Ask to go in side then phone the police
Lounge Lizard
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Re: Surveillance of Delivery Drivers

Post by Lounge Lizard »

oldrope wrote:
weather1 wrote:Hello RM Chat
Please could you help. I was followed by a surveillance team last week and will now be reprimanded. Please can you tell me if you are under surveillance by Royal Mail - is this allowed without any warning? I thought you had to be advised if you were under any kind of surveillance? My work record is clean so it is not based on any previous problem? Feeling very singled out. Other workers were alerted to the presence after I called in the situation to my office and I am therefore the only one.
Kind regards
Lee

Hi. If you are getting followed go to the nearest house Ask to go in side then phone the police
Lee,
Were you not aware that you were being followed by a surveillance team last week, because surely a team can't be all that inconspicuous ? :shock:
dvbuk55
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Re: Surveillance of Delivery Drivers

Post by dvbuk55 »

Lounge Lizard wrote:
oldrope wrote:
weather1 wrote:Hello RM Chat
Please could you help. I was followed by a surveillance team last week and will now be reprimanded. Please can you tell me if you are under surveillance by Royal Mail - is this allowed without any warning? I thought you had to be advised if you were under any kind of surveillance? My work record is clean so it is not based on any previous problem? Feeling very singled out. Other workers were alerted to the presence after I called in the situation to my office and I am therefore the only one.
Kind regards
Lee

Hi. If you are getting followed go to the nearest house Ask to go in side then phone the police
Lee,
Were you not aware that you were being followed by a surveillance team last week, because surely a team can't be all that inconspicuous ? :shock:
A team is generally two people in a car and you can spot them because they aren't too far away. No you aren't warned they are watching. A group of us from a rural delivery area was once under surveillance and we wasn't made aware until after the investigation was concluded, though a couple of us spotted them. Turned out the mail that went missing on a regular basis was being sorted on IPS by a rogue postman to his own delivery and then stolen, and he actually worked in a totally different area.

Why will you be reprimanded though if you haven't done anything wrong?