5 London bus workers die any RM statistics?

[nutcracker]

Of the five London bus workers who died, three were drivers and two were controllers.

Do we have the upto date statistics on our Royal Mail colleagues?

The controllers data above is extremely small but is tending to my own suspicions for RM, the indoor work and in particular mail centres will be hit hard.

[twoloops]

Do not kid yourself Royal Mail does not care about workers only money, some of your fellow work colleagues will die, be safe.

[Surfpostie]

Only a matter of time,before the first postie goes. Then RM will go on about how saddened they are. But really they could not give a toss about it’s staff on the frontline. So sad for the bus drivers in London,thoughts go to their families. Just remember give distance to each other & stay safe guys.

[A2B]

2 staff at Pentonville prison have sadly died as well

[POSTMAN]

Someone related to Royal Mail will unfortunately die, law of averages.

[Woody Guthrie]

All key workers are unfortunately at greater risk especially when they have children still at school, it's a double whammy.

I think it's a bit of a piss take if I'm honest especially for supermarket workers, cleaners and warehouse staff on minimum wage.

[nutcracker]

Someone related to Royal Mail will unfortunately die, law of averages.

Sadly this is true.

A lot of posties will get the disease at some stage and some critically, but we want to lessen the possibility of that happening now at a time when ventiallators, intensive care etc are being stretched/rationed and potential treatments are still in the experimental stage (some existing drugs could possibly come into play within the next 3-4 months if effective).

My particular concern is office indoor working/mail centres where working practices has not changed enough. I fear incompetent, talentless management and inflexible posties combined with a mutual mistrust will cause unnecessary deaths.

[FAB]

What particularly strikes me is I am the only person in the office who washes the hands prior to eating at the break!

[themailman]

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[Schiff]

Someone related to Royal Mail will unfortunately die, law of averages.

Almost 5000 people in the UK have died from this so far. Around 1 out of every 14000 of the population. If we were representative of the population as a whole then about 10 out of the 140,000 who work for Royal Mail would already have died due to Covid 19.

[nutcracker]

Someone related to Royal Mail will unfortunately die, law of averages.

Firstly, thanks for your tireless eforts in providing the info you have on this site.
I was wondering, if you can remember from any of the guidelines etc, do you know if staff in an office where a person tests positive with COVID-19 will be told about this?
We questioned our manager about this and he mumbled something about patient confidentiality.

This was a post from the 23rd march in one of the stickies, not sure where the information came from or if it’s kept up to date, hope there all ok, I guess to be tested you need to be admitted to hospital?

Positive Coronavirus Covid-19 Cases in Royal Mail:

Positive Cases in Royal Mail now stand at 9 – Manchester NWDO, Portabello DO (Edinburgh), Edinburgh MC, Abingdon DO, NDC, Mount Pleasant MC (W1 Collections), Eastleigh DO, Romford MC and Atherstone RMI.

[SpacePhoenix]

Do the buses in London still accept cash or do they only accept travel cards and Oyster cards? I though I remember reading a good while back about them stopping accepting cash

[A2B]

Do the buses in London still accept cash or do they only accept travel cards and Oyster cards? I though I remember reading a good while back about them stopping accepting cash

No cash on TFL network

[Dorset Plodder]

I don't think this is a particulary constructive discussion to have.

Everyone needs to remain positive and try their best to get through this crisis. We get enough statistics about the Rolling Death Toll on every TV news programme. I'm very aware of the Mental Heath Repercussions that are likely to occur during this Pandemic, and for a long time after it. Some colleagues are already showing sighs of Anxiety & Depression. Do we really need to be discussing Deaths on here?

[Woody Guthrie]

People process differently Dorset.
Some find humour in tragedy.
Some need to know every detail.
Some prefer not to know anything.

Anxiety is a reaction to being put into a situation that you're not comfortable with.
You being the individual and comfortable being what's comforting to you.