Home deliveries

Pollycat

From Royal Mail website:

Opting out from Royal Mail Door to Door stops all unaddressed items from being delivered by us (although we do work with Government to get a message to every UK address in exceptional circumstances where delivery of the message is deemed to be in the national interest).

Other information on reducing unwanted unaddressed items can be found on the RM website.

jimi_man

justworriedabit said:

pineapple said:

justworriedabit said:

Slightly off topic but recently they started pouring unsolicited leaflets, charity bags etc through our door. We clean all our post and even when touching the junk mail etc we have to wash our hands. There should be a law against leaflets where they can't post it to  trough our letter box unless we have a sign on the letter box allowing this.

I agree about the junk mail. What I've found useful generally is a mail catcher fixed over the letter flap inside. It's like a giant canvas envelope and it holds the mail till I decide what to do with it. Better than having possibly infected mail flying through the air and lying around on the mat.

Thank you. Having given more thought about it, for the duration of Covid, we decided last night to put a sign up on our door saying 'no junk mail..' Hopefully this works but I doubt it will with the post office mail as they often have junk mail included but not recently is what we have noted.
You can get too paranoid and rightly or wrongly I'm nearly there and very cautious.
About deliveries, we tell them to leave it on the step as we have a clear side panel adjacent to the door. We then wear disposable gloves and leave the parcel/s in our garage that can also be access from the inside of our house. It is sprayed with that Dettol antibacterial spray and left there for days or weeks depending when we need it. When opened, everything is cleaned with antibacterial wipes and rubbish put into bin and hands washed.
The sooner this virus is over the better for all of us.

That's the thing, it's not going to be over. It's not going away because they don't seem to be going for a zero Covid strategy (thankfully) so it seems it will be with us and we need to learn how to manage it. 

pineapple

I don't think sneering at people we think are overly worried is helpful. Plus we don't know everyone's circumstances. I have a rare auto immune condition which has affected the lungs and some of our consultants have gone so far as to say we will likely die if we catch covid. Plus the early shelding letters were dire. I remember one saying it would be ok if I opened the window a little. What? I have a dog that needs walking - and so do I. But shielders were bombarded with this stuff for months.

Fast forward to now and 3 people in my online support group have recently died of covid - one of whom caught it in hospital. We have had deaths in the litttle market town up the road and Covid has been right through next door but one.  The younger members of the family have been mostly OK but the oldest was taken to hospital then discharged to a hospice.

So I'll probably keep my paranoia a while yet. It might just keep me alive. But I will also continue to walk the dog.

GDB2222

I am amused by the utter lack of empathy shown by some of the posters.

Pollycat

At the end of the day, if you are getting shopping delivered by a company that refuses to guarantee your delivery driver wears a face mask, you opt to use an alternative company.

I understand this is what the OP has done.

The OP asked what the official rules were.

A poster has posted the legislation that covers this situation up-thread.

Jeremy535897 said:

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.

JamoLew

GDB2222 said:

I am amused by the utter lack of empathy shown by some of the posters.

facts and empathy often don't coincide

Additionally, I really hope this forum doesn't head in the direction of other media where any difference of opinion is met with a barrage of "how dare you disagree" comments and more

Lets stick to keeping this forum as full of facts as possible and keep the hugs and sympathy on other platforms (please)

elsien

GDB2222 said:

I am amused by the utter lack of empathy shown by some of the posters.

Does not being amused by utter lack of empathy also equate to a lack of empathy?

MollyBloomUK

I've become concerned about supermarket deliveries since the latest driver (Tesco) wore no mask, stood fairly close to my front door and talked the whole time about how Covid is a conspiracy, it's just a new name for the common cold and we should all go back to living as we did before the pandemic struck because "These things happen all the time and humanity hasn't died out yet, so why the fuss?" He carried on in that vein for the whole time I was moving things from his boxes to the bags in my hall, then stood there for another 5 minutes banging on like a doorstep evangelist before finally leaving. Warning bells - does this mean that Tesco employs vaccine refusers who will presumably be able to mix with the public (I'm elderly & vulnerable with underlying health issues)? Do the big supermarkets check up on employees who remain unvaccinated (for whatever reason)? Worrying.

elsien

There is no requirement for supermarket staff to be vaccinated so nothing for the employer to check up on. 

Upsidedownandaround

MollyBloomUK said:

I've become concerned about supermarket deliveries since the latest driver (Tesco) wore no mask, stood fairly close to my front door and talked the whole time about how Covid is a conspiracy, it's just a new name for the common cold and we should all go back to living as we did before the pandemic struck because "These things happen all the time and humanity hasn't died out yet, so why the fuss?" He carried on in that vein for the whole time I was moving things from his boxes to the bags in my hall, then stood there for another 5 minutes banging on like a doorstep evangelist before finally leaving. Warning bells - does this mean that Tesco employs vaccine refusers who will presumably be able to mix with the public (I'm elderly & vulnerable with underlying health issues)? Do the big supermarkets check up on employees who remain unvaccinated (for whatever reason)? Worrying.

How would you expect the big supermarkets to check up on this?

They can't and don't.