Government Help

[rambo1]

pisses me off something shocking that while we are out delivering shite others are safe at home getting paid. "oh still have to work" seems to be the new phrase customers like to use." Yes you prick, im standing in your garden with a parcel so yes im working".

wont be the virus that takes me but a feckin stroke

I would rather be working with a full wage than sitting at home on 80% of my 25 contracted hours.

I'd rather be safe(er) sat at home on 80% of my wages thank you very much.

[2yearpostie]

pisses me off something shocking that while we are out delivering shite others are safe at home getting paid. "oh still have to work" seems to be the new phrase customers like to use." Yes you prick, im standing in your garden with a parcel so yes im working".

wont be the virus that takes me but a feckin stroke

I would rather be working with a full wage than sitting at home on 80% of my 25 contracted hours.

I'd rather be safe(er) sat at home on 80% of my wages thank you very much.

you aint safer at home, go to the supermarket might catch it, get an online delivery might catch it, go for daily exercise might catch it, somebody coughs near your house when its windy might catch it..

[rogersh]

Wack, contact Royal Mail and see if you can get a different answer that is already on the forums other threads on this subject.

Where are the other threads specifically on this subject? I can't seem to find them.

Can you point me in their direction then I can check what answers and reasons are being offered to my question.

https://www.myroyalmail.com/news/2020/0 ... s-not-junk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

It’s not junk
We are implementing changes to prioritise some mail

Colleagues have been asking about the possibility of limiting the amount of non-essential items we are being asked to deliver during these challenging times.

We have now implemented changes to prioritise some mail. We will deliver unaddressed door to door advertising mailings to customers who are receiving addressed letters or parcels at the same time, wherever practically possible.

Door to Door mailings provide a very valuable service to small businesses and companies of all kinds as they seek to provide their goods and services. It’s important to remember that many small businesses need that support now more than ever. Door to Door mailings also include important communications from government and other authorities, which need to reach every household. It is therefore important that we keep the Door to Door channel open and effective.

We are required to deliver the universal service through the market. The universal postal service provides a lifeline to businesses and communities everywhere and we are proud to provide it. Door-to-door mailings and marketing mail are a very important means of paying for the universal service and supporting the delivery of all mail – including important documents such as hospital appointments and medical prescriptions.

[postieblueshirt]

All recycling in my area has been stopped no collections anymore a few of our guys are getting verbally abused now for delivering d2d there has to be a solution to this problem.the uso is already dead in the water I've had post 2 days last week as the office that delivers to me is struggling.

[GRS]

pisses me off something shocking that while we are out delivering shite others are safe at home getting paid. "oh still have to work" seems to be the new phrase customers like to use." Yes you prick, im standing in your garden with a parcel so yes im working".

wont be the virus that takes me but a feckin stroke

Calm down - can’t believe you’re getting in such a state cos you’re out working while others are at home. So what!! Reading lots of posts on different threads it seems that many posties are extremely jealous of people who are at home. Get over it. If it matters that much jack the job in and go on the jam roll.

Are you dave or terry in disguise cuz seems like they dont give a flying f--k either. actually had a blazing row with area hs rep yday over the 2meter rule his answer was what do you want me to do think hr will be getting a ring on mon morn please cancel my subs please thank you.

How’s cancelling your subs going to stop you getting the virus?

[GRS]

pisses me off something shocking that while we are out delivering shite others are safe at home getting paid. "oh still have to work" seems to be the new phrase customers like to use." Yes you prick, im standing in your garden with a parcel so yes im working".

wont be the virus that takes me but a feckin stroke

Calm down - can’t believe you’re getting in such a state cos you’re out working while others are at home. So what!! Reading lots of posts on different threads it seems that many posties are extremely jealous of people who are at home. Get over it. If it matters that much jack the job in and go on the jam roll.

Bit of a silly post that just go on the dole because hes fearful of catching a deadly virus WTF.

The thing is hero22 wasn’t saying he was fearful of catching the virus. He was moaning about having to work while others are at home but getting paid. Something he later had a rethink on when someone else posted a different slant on it. My view on a lot of what we’re reading on this forum isn’t that some people are necessarily fearful of the virus but consumed by that wonderful human trait - jealousy!!!

[HA1]

How many people sitting at home doing nothing will have a job to go back to, I bet a lot won't.

[hero22]

pisses me off something shocking that while we are out delivering shite others are safe at home getting paid. "oh still have to work" seems to be the new phrase customers like to use." Yes you prick, im standing in your garden with a parcel so yes im working".

wont be the virus that takes me but a feckin stroke

Calm down - can’t believe you’re getting in such a state cos you’re out working while others are at home. So what!! Reading lots of posts on different threads it seems that many posties are extremely jealous of people who are at home. Get over it. If it matters that much jack the job in and go on the jam roll.

Bit of a silly post that just go on the dole because hes fearful of catching a deadly virus WTF.

The thing is hero22 wasn’t saying he was fearful of catching the virus. He was moaning about having to work while others are at home but getting paid. Something he later had a rethink on when someone else posted a different slant on it. My view on a lot of what we’re reading on this forum isn’t that some people are necessarily fearful of the virus but consumed by that wonderful human trait - jealousy!!!

First of all I am extremely jealous of those paid to stay at home if it helps them and their families health as the government advises. I am jealous that their families are being more protected than my own. I am also frightened too. I did show sympathy to the people on part time contracts and what 80% wage would be like for them. So I did not have a rethink on the jealousy thing to be clear. Quite a patronising sort you are love.

[Seymour Buts]

Can't believe people would rather be at home. I'm doing as many hours as I can currently simply to get out the house. I'm bored stupid currently. There's nothing to do. Least we're allowed to actually see the sun, and interact (two metres) away with other human beings while we're working.

[Post69]

I couldn't think of anything I'd least like to do! Sit at home doing nothing yeah you can do odd jobs around the house but I'd sooner be at work! In my office there is a core of people who are moaning about "why aren't they sending us home bla bla" and yes the vulnerable and at risk royal mail do have a duty of care to them without any question if they feel uneasy and frightened but certain people in my office are just bloody lazy and avoid work at the best of times!

[5plusbonusball]

When people stop moving , a virus stops moving, people move it around, until it;s a 100% shutdown , prepare to attend a lot of family funerals! Now go and prep your docket!

[Seymour Buts]

When people stop moving , a virus stops moving, people move it around, until it;s a 100% shutdown , prepare to attend a lot of family funerals! Now go and prep your docket!

You can't have 100% shutdown. We'd all starve and die from lack of medical attention for a start. Civil disorder is starting to appear in Italy coz of the lockdown, much longer in this country and we'll see similar.

[Seymour Buts]

I couldn't think of anything I'd least like to do! Sit at home doing nothing yeah you can do odd jobs around the house but I'd sooner be at work! In my office there is a core of people who are moaning about "why aren't they sending us home bla bla" and yes the vulnerable and at risk royal mail do have a duty of care to them without any question if they feel uneasy and frightened but certain people in my office are just bloody lazy and avoid work at the best of times!

There is an element of that to be honest. The majority self isolating are doing in genuinely to be fair, but there's a couple who have openly told others they're just swinging the led.

[POSTMAN]

My view on a lot of what we’re reading on this forum isn’t that some people are necessarily fearful of the virus but consumed by that wonderful human trait - jealousy!!!

If I'm honest that is not strictly true and I have read nearly every post in the Coronavirus forum, still a bit to go but I've read a s**t load.
Most are fearful trust me, the odd moan about the way the public are being, but on the main, it's fear.

[Post69]

When people stop moving , a virus stops moving, people move it around, until it;s a 100% shutdown , prepare to attend a lot of family funerals! Now go and prep your docket!

You can't have 100% shutdown. We'd all starve and die from lack of medical attention for a start. Civil disorder is starting to appear in Italy coz of the lockdown, much longer in this country and we'll see similar.

Yep people are starting to go down the civil disobedience route in Italy but the media are not showing that much if not at all and over here all the people who are moaning about we should be in total lockdown because you have the comfort of the Government paying 80% of wages for a max of 12 weeks so what's your plan after that and your on your own financially and bored out of your skull and all the family are at each other throats nah I'll just very carefully following the government instructions it may take me twice as long to do the job but that's to be expected and our distribution in fairness have all the gloves hand sanitiser and stricked 2m+ distancing enforced by the union reps and to be honest enforced by the workers aswell but I can honestly say reading about deliveries looks like a total different ball game