Will CWU members use their power to refuse Reform UK deliveries? (Picture: Guy Smallman)
Royal Mail bosses are hunting a plucky postal worker who told social media he’d binned Reform UK election leaflets that he was meant to deliver.
A post on the Royal Mail Chat Facebook group, read, “My DO had reform party’s D2D today. I dumped them all in a bin. They can sack me! Idgaf!”
“DO” is short for delivery office, “D2D” for door‑to‑door advertising mail, and “Idgaf” means “I don’t give a fuck”.
A furious, gammon-faced Reform UK representative wrote to Royal Mail chief executive Alistair Cochrane demanding he take “action.”
But Royal Mail staff have long refused to handle election leaflets for racist parties.
Back in 2010, postal workers across Britain refused to deliver British National Party (BNP) general election leaflets.
Many employees even contacted their CWU union to ask if they could refuse them.
One branch activist in the Midlands told Socialist Worker at the time, “Our members in Brierley Hill, near Dudley, are determined not to touch their leaflets and I think they are absolutely right.
“Delivering that stuff in an area where there have been big battles with the far right puts postal workers in danger because some people might think that they are endorsing the BNP.
“I tell people that the union has negotiated an agreement with Royal Mail that says no one can be forced to touch BNP material if they object to it on grounds of their beliefs.”
Around 100 postal workers in Bristol and Somerset also refused to deliver the fascist party’s addresses, as did a number of workers in Macclesfield, Cheshire.
Many workers cited a Royal Mail “conscience clause,” agreed in 2005.
It allowed postal workers not to deliver material they found offensive or believed their customers may find offensive.
Today, the CWU should uphold its proud anti-racist traditions and back any worker that refuses to deliver racism through the letterbox.
Racism first developed as a justification for enslavement
