Canada: Posties vow not to deliver anti-gay mail
Oct 29 2006 17:54
admin edit: local link - hope you don't mind EW!
http://libcom.org/news/canadian-posties-refuse-to-deliver-homophobic-pamphlet-29102006
Did I ever mention how much I love my other union CUPW.
Oct 30 2006 00:23
#2
A couple of times in the last 2 years postal workers here have refused to deliver British nationalist party leaflets. We covered it in news but i cant find the stories. I've heard this from a postal source...
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Some of our members have been attacked in the past when delivering BNP leaflets so we have a bit of a conscience clause that means we don't have to handle them but the responsibility is on management to find someone, as opposed to us having to find someone. It's one of the few areas where a postal worker can have a bit of control over management.
Oct 30 2006 03:44
#3
I'm pretty sure it's what is called unadressed admail, or just plain old flyers. If it was addressed and put in an envelope no postie would no know, but this was a mass flyering of a particular neighbourhood.
Oct 30 2006 07:56
#4
thanks, EW! the issue i was worried about did end up coming up (though i knew most of the people would've been delighted to hear about it anyway), and that helped a lot 
Oct 30 2006 08:51
#5
rkn wrote:
A couple of times in the last 2 years postal workers here have refused to deliver British nationalist party leaflets. We covered it in news but i cant find the stories
my mate is a postie and he of course refused to carry the BNP leaflets, and so did about half of the posties. The other half seem to vote BNP, so that was a bit of a cause for tension there! It would be good to hear some grassroots comments on how this delivery boycott went in different centres.
Oct 30 2006 16:21
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I'm a postie in South Wales and we get to deliver the leaflets for all the candidates at general elections and local elections. Because one of my mates refused to handle them management wanted to suspend him which, obvioulsy, could have led to a whole walk out of postal workers.
Oct 30 2006 16:54
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dafydd1 wrote:
I'm a postie in South Wales and we get to deliver the leaflets for all the candidates at general elections and local elections. Because one of my mates refused to handle them management wanted to suspend him which, obvioulsy, could have led to a whole walk out of postal workers.
was he the only one refusing to deliver them in your office or was it a collective refusal?
Oct 31 2006 19:20
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dafydd1 wrote:
I'm a postie in South Wales and we get to deliver the leaflets for all the candidates at general elections and local elections. Because one of my mates refused to handle them management wanted to suspend him which, obvioulsy, could have led to a whole walk out of postal workers.
Ah that's excellent!
I guess we didn't transfer the UK story yet, we covered Swedish postal workers blacking fascists here.
i'm just curious - was the pamphlet being distributed randomly to people who hadnt specifically asked for it, or was it being sent to people who were part of that church or whatever?
not that it matters too much to me either way, i think it's pretty damned neat
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but i mentioned this on another messageboard... wanna have my facts straight if somebody starts arguing.