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Stand up for our mail service on National Postal Workers Day
Don’t just thank a postie – think about how much worse off we’d have been during the pandemic with an even more broken-up service, and what we can do to reverse the damage, writes TERRY PULLINGER

TODAY is an opportunity to say thank you to the red army that has connected the citizens of Britain for over 500 years.

Postal workers have continued to work through all major disruptive events in our history, be it world wars or extreme weather that has brought the country to a standstill, “the postman always delivers” — but never has that old adage been more tested than in the last year or so.

Postal workers, along with other key workers, have literally been on the front line of the war on Covid, walking, delivering, sorting and driving all in harm’s way of an invisible enemy, to deliver what everyone now recognises as a vital service.

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