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To Rico Back - CEO of Royal Mail

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As Royal Mail workers, we are sorting, collecting and delivering mail everyday whilst COVID-19 continues to spread. Everyday we post items through the doors of the elderly, the vulnerable and every other member of the community, not knowing themselves if they have the virus or if they are contributing to its spread.

Postal workers are requesting that Royal Mail and the Union provide hand sanitisers to help us protect ourselves and our communities but so far it has not happened.

So please sign this petition to get all postal workers hand sanitiser in an attempt to protect your lives, our lives, your loved ones and the community. Thank you for your support.

Petition text

Coronavirus (COVID-19) is a threat to our health, public health and a threat to the business. Postal staff are still working in every community in the country with no hand sanitiser to help stop the spread. Your postal workers spend all day delivering to customers, touching their letterboxes/gates/doors and handling their mail. All actions that could lead to us catching and spreading the virus.

Please provide hand sanitiser for all staff - it will help to keep Royal Mail employees and customers safer.

Signed,

Royal Mail staff and their customers around the country

Why is this important?

Royal Mail deliver to every address in the country. Six days a week the postmen and women are out in the streets going to hundreds of addresses on each round. At some of these addresses are vulnerable people, elderly people or those self-isolating, some will even have the virus. Every door/gate/parcel/letter provides another opportunity for it to spread. From leaving the office until finishing their round, most postal workers have no opportunity to wash their hands, even if they cough or sneeze.

This petition is an attempt to help protect our postmen and women who are working very hard to make sure you still get the mail and parcels essential to you, and to help them protect you, your family and friends and your communities. We risk our health and lives every day to help support you at home so please join us in trying to support them. Thank you.

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