The Prince of Wales recorded a heartfelt message to the workers at the Royal Mail, praising them for being “an incredibly important lifeline to us all” amidst the coronavirus pandemic.
In a video, shared on the Royal Mail Twitter account on Tuesday, Prince Charles said: “Now, while we are still in the grip of this dreadful pandemic. I want to express once again, my profound appreciation to you all for continuing to work so incredibly hard in every corner of this land.
“The truth is that the Royal Mail remains an incredibly important lifeline to us all, especially to the vulnerable, the lonely, and those who have to self-isolate
“And if I may say so I’ve been immensely impressed by the determination you’ve shown, even when faced with the additional challenges of extreme weather, colleague absences, and of course, greatly increased volumes of parcels.”
Prince Charles shared a personal story about a social-distanced conversation he and Camilla had had with their postman, Neil Martin, at Birkhall.
“Afterwards, Neil delivered a letter from us addressed to everyone at Royal Mail expressing our heartfelt but inadequate thanks to the tireless efforts, you would all be making to keep our country connected. It’s right the most difficult of times.”
He recorded the message, he said, to offer his “heartfelt but inadequate thanks to the tireless efforts’ to the postal service adding staff are working ‘incredibly hard on every corner of this land.”
Prince Charles added: “I know that on a daily basis, The Royal Mail is playing a really crucial role in delivering hope through letterboxes across the land, not least by carrying those those critical illnesses, for the NHS inviting people to their vaccination, which offers our best route back to normality.
“I realised too that you have helped deliver more than one billion items of personal protective equipment to the NHS and to those in adult social care settings and deliberative central medication to those who are unable to leave their homes.
“There are so many unsung heroes and heroines working for the role of delivering COVID tests to home addresses and safely collecting the completed kids from a network of 35,000 priority postboxes, seven days a week.
“In addition to performing such a continuous public service. I have been enormous impressed to see how many of you have leapt into unstoppable action in an astonishing variety of unexpected outfits, in order to raise our spirits.”
He finished the message, saying, “Ladies and gentleman, Royal Mail is a service that has delivered for more than 500 years. But in the last 12 months you prove that your work remains utter vital.
“For what it is worth, I can only offer you my greatest possible thanks once again for what every single one of you continues to do day in and day out, during these long days of lockdown, what you do, and the service you provide makes such a difference to so many people, and we would truly be lost without you.”
