Pay Royal Mail postmen to deliver some TLC to elderly | News

Families could pay for elderly relatives to be visited by their postman or woman and have their wellbeing checked.

Royal Mail’s 120,000 frontline postal workers could also deliver prescriptions while doing their daily rounds.

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has proposed the idea to the loss-making Royal Mail to “build on our biggest advantage — the fact that we own trust on the doorstep”.

Dave Ward, general secretary of the CWU, said: “There is something secure about seeing a postal worker coming down the street. Postal workers already do a lot of work for their community voluntarily, including helping with deliveries for food banks, so it would be formalising some of these things. We would also like to see them integrating with some of the