Royal Mail deliveries under threat

Janet Brum · Post by **Janet Brum** » 28 Mar 2020, 21:09

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Royal Mail deliveries could stop as postal workers complain of delivering 'pointless junk mail' during the coronavirus lockdown.

It comes as union leaders are encouraging staff to call in sick, rather than risk catching coronavirus during their daily rounds, The Telegraph reports.

Royal Mail workers were designated as key workers to keep deliveries flowing during the pandemic, but ministers have stopped short of accepting a Communications Workers' Union to become the country's 'fifth emergency service' and deliver only essential supplies such as food, testing kits and medicines'.

'It's not right that postal workers should be risking their lives to deliver pointless junk mail, shopping offers and water pistols,' a CWU spokesman told The Telegraph.

'If the Government doesn’t accept our offer, in three weeks we will have to look again at our support for the key worker status.'

Royal Mail has introduced new rules to keep staff apart in depots, sharing vans has also been put on hold during the pandemic.

Rico Back, Group Chief Executive Officer, Royal Mail, said: 'We are focused on protecting our people, company and the communities we serve during this unprecedented crisis. We are putting the health and well-being of colleagues and customers first.

'At the same time, we are delivering the parcels and letters that are a lifeline for those who cannot leave their homes.'

Janet Brum · Post by **Janet Brum** » 28 Mar 2020, 21:11

Some key workers, after a 10 hours shift I have to wait one hour or more in a queque to buy my food from Sainsbury and other supermarkets...

ssdd · Post by **ssdd** » 28 Mar 2020, 21:36

Despicable piece of writing...

Post by **POSTMAN** » 28 Mar 2020, 21:36

'It's not right that postal workers should be risking their lives to deliver pointless junk mail, shopping offers and water pistols,' a CWU spokesman told The Telegraph.
'If the Government doesn’t accept our offer, in three weeks we will have to look again at our support for the key worker status.'

Who's said that?

Janet Brum · Post by **Janet Brum** » 28 Mar 2020, 21:45

Daily mail

I swear I always check before posting a new topic but I missed this one :(

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ssdd · Post by **ssdd** » 28 Mar 2020, 21:48

Janet Brum wrote:Daily mail

I swear I always check before posting a new topic but I missed this one :(

https://www.royalmailchat.co.uk/communi ... 18&t=95058" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

missed that myself. Too many new posts. Haven't caught up yet...
[EDIT] Just checked. That one's locked.

Post by **POSTMAN** » 28 Mar 2020, 21:48

It's ok Jan, I locked Teeb's one.

Missing posts, have you peeps seen this!
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Janet Brum · Post by **Janet Brum** » 28 Mar 2020, 22:05

Thank you Postman :)

Usually I use the Unread posts one, I open tabs with all the topics I want to read then spend some time reading them :))
The rest I mark as read at the end.

Pumpernickel · Post by **Pumpernickel** » 28 Mar 2020, 22:10

For "essentials" that come through the post, IMO people need:

NHS letters/parcels (plus these testing kits).
Contact lenses, etc (specsavers usually).
Bank cards (if one goes out of date and its replacement hasn't arrived, how do you buy food?) and other bank mail.
Driving licenses and other DVLA notices.
Insurance documents.
Court or legal documents.
Bills (don't want them, but they should be part of priority mail IMO).
DWP mail.
Any mail associated with these new income measures for the SE or business loans, etc.
Any public health mail.

While we deliver the above, it probably isn't hard to deliver the rest of the general mail with it. I'm sure there's other important stuff that I've not listed, but I have a hard time believing the latest fashion or a new plant pot via mail order is particularly important.

That's the message that IMO needs getting across: non-essential parcels are being given priority over most of the above as the stuff listed above is in with the general mail, which we're told is not priority.

Janet Brum · Post by **Janet Brum** » 28 Mar 2020, 22:28

RM won`t get that message across as it wants the profits, we can`t as we are not heard...
So we`ll continue to deliver crap and risk spreading or getting coronavirus for RM`s profit.

Williaal2 · Post by **Williaal2** » 28 Mar 2020, 22:32

The fact is marketing mail is going to drop of sharply, many online sites such as Next are ceasing to deliver online, and within the next two weeks the govt is likely to ban all non essential business. At which point we will be twiddling our thumbs and remembers we are not govt subsidised, and this Tory govt are about as likely to nationalise us as Boris is to strip naked and run through the house of commons.

SSkUNkY · Post by **SSkUNkY** » 28 Mar 2020, 23:01

'If the Government doesn’t accept our offer, in THREE WEEKS we will have to look again at our support for the key worker status.'

How about look again on MONDAY morning while you are 'working' from home.

Williaal2 · Post by **Williaal2** » 28 Mar 2020, 23:04

SSkUNkY wrote:'If the Government doesn’t accept our offer, in THREE WEEKS we will have to look again at our support for the key worker status.'

How about look again on MONDAY morning while you are 'working' from home.

Its 3 weeks because by then the govt will have banned all non essential business, not just retail, so royal mail will be delivering nothing but mail for other essential businesses.

Post by **rambo1** » 29 Mar 2020, 07:40

SSkUNkY wrote:'If the Government doesn’t accept our offer, in THREE WEEKS we will have to look again at our support for the key worker status.'

How about look again on MONDAY morning while you are 'working' from home.

So. Now we know it was the cwu who pushed the GOVT on giving us key worker status. Thank you CWU. Not.

Post by **rambo1** » 29 Mar 2020, 07:44

Williaal2 wrote:
SSkUNkY wrote:'If the Government doesn’t accept our offer, in THREE WEEKS we will have to look again at our support for the key worker status.'

How about look again on MONDAY morning while you are 'working' from home.
Its 3 weeks because by then the govt will have banned all non essential business, not just retail, so royal mail will be delivering nothing but mail for other essential businesses.

If mails gonna be that light, why don't royal mail just keep a skeleton staff who want to work through it, and furlough ( or whatever it's called) the rest who don't, and save money, get the GOVT to pay us 80% of our wages for being good at home? If they said who wants to stay at home for the next two months on 80% pay and your job is safe to come back to, there would be a lot of hands go up .