"Postie" - an affectionate term for a person delivering post
About #thankapostie
So many of us are reliant on our Posties, the fabulous people who are still delivering post to our homes and work places. Our Posties help to make sure we get letters from the people we love. They also deliver the supplies we need to be able to live life better at home during COVID19.
In Australia our national postal service, Australia Post, has a workforce of 80,000 and operates more than 4000 post offices, 220 delivery facilities and 400 free 24/7 Parcel lockers. And they are still delivering. We want to thank our Posties in the simplest way we can - and in compliance with social distancing requirements.
Thanks to artist Zoe Clarke for the beautiful web banner - more of her work at @karriclarke_art
In Australia our national postal service, Australia Post, has a workforce of 80,000 and operates more than 4000 post offices, 220 delivery facilities and 400 free 24/7 Parcel lockers. And they are still delivering. We want to thank our Posties in the simplest way we can - and in compliance with social distancing requirements.
Thanks to artist Zoe Clarke for the beautiful web banner - more of her work at @karriclarke_art
Postal services being cut?
Check details on the Postal Pandemic webpage below.
How to participate
Here are the simple steps to participate in this Campaign:
- Write a message to your Postie thanking them for keeping delivering mail
- Stick the message to the outside of your letter box
- Photograph your message and letter box
- Post your photograph to your own social media with two hashtags: #thankapostie and #thekindnesspandemic
- Submit your photograph to the Kindness Pandemic Facebook Group with the two hashtags and your state/country.
Important message from Australia Post
Please note, you need to practice social distancing with your Postie - please read this message from Australia Post: Our army of posties and drivers are still out across Australia trying their hardest to deliver parcels first time and providing contactless doorstep delivery. We know you love to greet them and have a chat, but to help us all, please remember we need to do this from a distance now.
Information for local groups
If you have set up a local Kindness Pandemic Group you might like to host this Campaign as a local activity and light up your suburb, town or city with messages thanking local Posties. Encourage your Group members to share photographs to your page and consider contacting local media to cover the story ... you may even get feedback from your local Postie.
Some of the Acts of Kindness
We will share a sample of the posts and messages in this section in the next week. Please also see the message below from Nate Metcher, Operations, Campaigns, Communications at the CEPU - The Communications Union.
Thank you from a postie
Sean O'Keefe: Thankyou, Thankyou, Thankyou. It has been an incredible week for Posties. Never in my 30 years of being a Postie, would I ever have expected that our profession would be honoured in the way your great group have honoured us ...
Thankyou from the CEPU
To all the kind people in this group [the Kindness Pandemic] - THANK YOU.
I work for the CEPU, also known as the CWU outside NSW - the trade Union representing postal and telecommunications workers. A number of posties have shared their experiences out on their runs with us over the past couple of days. From the kind notes taped to your letterboxes and the chalk games on your footpaths, to some of you running out and chasing them down the street to give them a box of chocolates or a bottle of hand sanitiser. You are all amazing people.
I work for the CEPU, also known as the CWU outside NSW - the trade Union representing postal and telecommunications workers. A number of posties have shared their experiences out on their runs with us over the past couple of days. From the kind notes taped to your letterboxes and the chalk games on your footpaths, to some of you running out and chasing them down the street to give them a box of chocolates or a bottle of hand sanitiser. You are all amazing people.
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Without in any way detracting from the critical work being undertaken by our courageous medical professionals and other essential workers such as our retail workers, our bank clerks, our teachers, our childcare workers, our law enforcement officers and many others - our members are also very much on the front-lines of Australia's pandemic response.
And although the anxiety and fear has well and truly, understandably, kicked in for them - they are still at work. Not only because they need their jobs to feed their families, but because they take their obligations to ensure our communities remain connected incredibly seriously. |
This sentiment is shared by not only our posties and delivery drivers, but our telecommunications technicians who are still out there repairing faults on the copper and NBN networks and attending customers' homes to make sure their internet connections don't fall over whilst working from home, our mail sorters working in our processing facilities, our van drivers collecting articles from customer premises and street posting boxes, our big red and blue truck drivers moving letters and parcels up and down our coasts and across state borders as flights are grounded, our post office counter operators providing quality local postal services and filling the void in our communities left by the big banks, and even those working behind the scenes in offices and call centres around the country to make sure the necessary wheels keep turning in the background.
These people are attending work every day and are, understandably, incredibly fearful for their health and safety - along with that of their families they come home to.
I wanted to let you all know that your acts of kindness are certainly not going unnoticed. The smallest of your gestures have been received with massive amounts of gratitude. Our members appreciate your actions more than I could ever express in this post. In the words of one of our members, you've made them feel like "rock stars" (we all know they well and truly are!).
Please keep up the incredible work you are all doing - it is literally making the day of those who are there for us today, as they have always been - steadily reaching every Australian home and business during our times of crisis - natural disasters, conflict and economic calamity. This crisis is no different.
Yours in humble gratitude,
Nathan Metcher
Operations, Campaigns, Communications
CEPU - The Communications Union
These people are attending work every day and are, understandably, incredibly fearful for their health and safety - along with that of their families they come home to.
I wanted to let you all know that your acts of kindness are certainly not going unnoticed. The smallest of your gestures have been received with massive amounts of gratitude. Our members appreciate your actions more than I could ever express in this post. In the words of one of our members, you've made them feel like "rock stars" (we all know they well and truly are!).
Please keep up the incredible work you are all doing - it is literally making the day of those who are there for us today, as they have always been - steadily reaching every Australian home and business during our times of crisis - natural disasters, conflict and economic calamity. This crisis is no different.
Yours in humble gratitude,
Nathan Metcher
Operations, Campaigns, Communications
CEPU - The Communications Union
