Home deliveries

Jeremy535897

The law is in The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings in a Relevant Place) (England) Regulations 2020 at https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/791/contents
People are required to wear a mask in a "relevant place", which is defined in the schedule. That schedule includes public areas in hotels and hostels, but not in blocks of flats.

GDB2222

We have a sign on our door for deliveries, asking the driver to dump the stuff on our doorstep and ring the bell. 

Occasionally, they ask to see me, and I refuse to open the door. Not once have they taken the stuff away again.

We use Waitrose and Ocado for groceries, and their drivers wear masks. If you are not happy with your supermarket I suggest changing to a more socially responsible one that doesn’t spread deadly disease.

GDB2222

comeandgo said:

I’m thinking of all the delivery drivers and post men I see and non are wearing masks, maybe it’s not a legal requirement.

The virus doesn’t care whether it is a legal requirement or the driver is exempt. If the driver doesn’t wear a mask, which is a really really basic precaution, he should be doing a different job.

2021BJ

tpv991 said:

Is it 'vanishly small' or are you just being rude?

Yes, it's vanishingly small.

And I don't know how saying the risk of something happening is small is rude either.

Jeremy535897

The driver is more at risk from the occupants than the other way round, because if there are several people with coronavirus in a flat, a lot of virus can escape whenever the door is opened, which in one case was sufficient to infect someone in the room opposite (doors open at the same time).

Aylesbury_Duck

Just shop elsewhere. You can't enforce mask-wearing for a company's employee, no matter how many signs you put up.

Pollycat

tpv991 said:

elsien said:

Have you considered that the driver may be exempt? 

I asked that. That was when they got rude, so I suspect he wasn't. 

I really can't see a 'major supermarket' getting rude unless the complainer was rude first.

justworriedabit

Pollycat said:

tpv991 said:

elsien said:

Have you considered that the driver may be exempt? 

I asked that. That was when they got rude, so I suspect he wasn't. 

I really can't see a 'major supermarket' getting rude unless the complainer was rude first.

So what you are saying is that it is impossible for some supermarket worker/s to being "rude" first and doubting the validity of this posters post. A bit odd, that.

GDB2222

2021BJ said:

tpv991 said:

Is it 'vanishly small' or are you just being rude?

Yes, it's vanishingly small.

And I don't know how saying the risk of something happening is small is rude either.

Can I just check your reference for this statement please? 

MrFrugalFever

Hi,

Do you have your delivery at the same day and time each week and does this invariably end up with having the same delivery driver dropping your goods off each time? Perhaps a polite word with said driver to ask them if they wouldn't mind just putting a mask on when they enter your flats? You could also contact the store you have your goods delivered from the day before and ask them to write on the job sheet for you so hopefully it reminds the delivery driver of your requirement. The only time i can imagine a driver NOT complying with this is because either a) they've forgotten or b) they are 'exempt'