Royal Mail whistleblower claims £600 energy vouchers delayed by overtime ban

A Royal Mail whistle-blower in Northern Ireland is claiming £600 energy payment vouchers are being delayed by a ban on overtime work.

The postal employee also says that parcels are being prioritised over letters when it comes to delivery schedules. That claim is denied by Royal Mail, however they say parcels may be cleared at local level for health and safety reasons.The employee said: “Yet again management has been round to postal workers in Newry to tell them there will be no overtime given. We are seeing letters coming in for the £600 energy payments, that are not getting delivered.

“Well the reality is, that parcels before letters is very much the case. Together with overtime being taken away, I fear it is the elderly and the vulnerable who will pay the price in cold houses waiting on energy vouchers that will be sitting undelivered in a Royal Mail sorting office.” A Royal Mail spokesperson in response, said: “Overtime continues to be available to colleagues when it is required, depending on our workload at any given time. Every item of mail is important to us.

My Christmas cards for 2021 arrived in March 2022. This week I received 2 Christmas cards. Dont hold your breath folks. Christmas is coming in March if you're lucky! Haven't a clue about energy letters mind!

Not fair at all if that’s true. People are struggling and looking forward to get least benefit of this help . Shame on logistics and delivery services if they delay this service… hardly know anyone got anything in their post or account. So it does not seem to be far from true…

You mean they’ll not get delivered that day but will get delivered so a non story. They did say they would all be delivered by the end of February.

What's worse skiprat landlords are demanding the £600 off tenants

Stop making it sound like these vouchers are being set aside a deliberately not being delivered. Nonsense

Whistleblower my rear! It was to be expected from the masonic ran crooks business! Nothing has changed for years always up to know good royal-mail .. NI hopes for better new postal services from better ran new businesses in the future.

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