Is this classed as Essential?

tonebha · Mar 30, 2020

I had a pile of junk mail leaflets stuffed through my letterbox this morning by the postie.

No actual letters, just half a dozen leaflets advertising automatic garage doors etc. - it wouldn't be so bad if they had to deliver me an actual letter, but I suspect that there is no need to visit the majority of properties as there is no real post for them.

There is a (albeit small, so we are led to believe) chance of a trace of the dreaded CV19 sitting on one of said pieces of junk mail and subsequently being transferred to the hands and onwards of an absent minded recipient.

Now, is it just me or does anyone else consider this to be a rather unecessary way of possible transmission either to or from the postie?

ManOfSussex · Mar 30, 2020

Not just you - https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...l-ban-to-lessen-coronavirus-dangers-8m69v3j8p

tonebha · Mar 30, 2020

Ah, I hadn't seen that! Hopefully it will stop soon.

Driver8 · Mar 30, 2020

Not to mention the 30m letters that the Govt have posted telling us what we already know.

tonebha · Mar 30, 2020

Driver8 said:
Not to mention the 30m letters that the Govt have posted telling us what we already know.

A letter from Boris delivered to every house in the UK. Let's hope he didn't lick all the stamps himself then!

LlcoolJ · Mar 30, 2020

Driver8 said:
Not to mention the 30m letters that the Govt have posted telling us what we already know.

Yes. Maybe they could give people/companies some money instead of wasting it on this nonsense.

People who are too stupid to give a toss wont read the letter anyway. Everyone else already knows the score.

Pointless exercise.

jonny.rainbow · Mar 30, 2020

LlcoolJ said:
Yes. Maybe they could give people/companies some money instead of wasting it on this nonsense.

People who are too stupid to give a toss wont read the letter anyway. Everyone else already knows the score.

Pointless exercise.

It’s all about avoiding culpability at a future Public Inquiry.

Herr Tubthumper · Mar 30, 2020

jonny.rainbow said:
It’s all about avoiding culpability at a future Public Inquiry.

I think there will be fare greater issues than letters if there’s a public enquiry.

Tom Hark Preston Park · Mar 30, 2020

LlcoolJ said:
Yes. Maybe they could give people/companies some money instead of wasting it on this nonsense.

People who are too stupid to give a toss wont read the letter anyway. Everyone else already knows the score.

Pointless exercise.

100% this. Anybody who's not got the message already is hardly likely to sit down, read a letter from BJ and re-evaluate their lifestyle choices. Pure showboating sadly

LlcoolJ · Mar 30, 2020

jonny.rainbow said:
It’s all about avoiding culpability at a future Public Inquiry.

Indeed.

LlcoolJ · Mar 30, 2020

Herr Tubthumper said:
I think there will be fare greater issues than letters if there’s a public enquiry.

Yes but this letter thing is clearly an attempt at arse covering.

tonebha · Mar 30, 2020

I did actually email the Royal Mail earlier this morning, the wording and content being pretty similar to my original post - I also said I look forward to their reply……

Badger Boy · Mar 30, 2020

Herr Tubthumper said:
I think there will be fare greater issues than letters if there’s a public enquiry.

Like what?

GT49er · Mar 30, 2020

tonebha said:
Ah, I hadn't seen that! Hopefully it will stop soon.

Like most of us, I haven't seen it, even after clicking the link!

Re: junk mail, though, annoying as it is, it has a purpose. Nobody writes letters these days, and many bills, bank statements, etc. are sent electronically (even though some of us still opt for the paper versions) so the royal Mail's main revenue streams have disappeared. Thanks to a certain government's 'foresight' 30 years ago in selling off an industry for a one-off cash boost, the service is now a private company which needs to make a profit.
Without the junk mail, now its main revenue stream, the postal service wouldn't exist. Hence the bloody junk is a necessary evil, unless or until we re-nationalise the Royal Mail - and I tink most us would agree that the government has othe priorities to worry about for now!.

Herr Tubthumper · Mar 30, 2020

Badger Boy said:
Like what?

Take a look in the How has Boris done, and Dyson threads, it’s all there.

Badger Boy · Mar 30, 2020

Herr Tubthumper said:
Take a look in the How has Boris done, and Dyson threads, it’s all there.

Oh I see - personal agenda.

The Brighton Bear · Mar 30, 2020

The Postal Workers union CWU has said to Royal Mail that they can't see the point of advertising mail at this time.

Herr Tubthumper · Mar 30, 2020

Badger Boy said:
Oh I see - personal agenda.

Er, no. It’s not just me who has posted in those threads. Did you look?

Fungus · Mar 30, 2020

The Brighton Bear said:
The Postal Workers union CWU has said to Royal Mail that they can't see the point of advertising mail at this time.

Except maybe the one I found today for funeral plans. Bit insensitive, though.

Petunia · Mar 30, 2020

Oxy McFloppie-Tish said:
Except maybe the one I found today for funeral plans. Bit insensitive, though.

I guess you made it home then.

That must have been a wonderful feeling :thumbsup:

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