Comments made by John Maynard, the co-national president of the Postal Workers Union, play into calls for censorship and fail to stand up for workers’ most basic right; their right to free speech, says Jonathan Ayling, Chief Executive of the Free Speech Union.
“Some posties in Wellington have refused to deliver a pamphlet from advocacy group Better Wellington that contained references to changes made by recent amendments to the District Plan. But it is not up to posties to decide which information they will deliver or not.
“We commend comments from New Zealand Post who have noted that ‘It is not appropriate for NZ Post to act as a censor in determining what it will and won’t deliver.’
“If recipients have a problem with the content they receive, then it’s up to them to decide how they respond. But they can’t make this decision if they don’t receive the material in the first place. If material being distributed is illegal, challenge it; don’t opt for censorship.
“Increasingly, workers’ unions are abandoning the primary tool they have historically used to advocate for workers’ rights; speech, and advocacy.
“By actively undermining the ability for all Kiwis to speak freely, the Postal Workers Union, along with others like the Tertiary Education Union and Public Service Association, are undermining their own foundation.”
We agree with @NZFreeSpeech. In a world where MSM refuses to report important social and cultural decisions of council, direct intervention is the only way to communicate. The unions are just Labour puppets. https://t.co/2FgeH7h6NN
— Better Wellington (@BetterWgtn) August 27, 2024
Nicely put Jonathan Ayling, teach those commies a thing about how democracy works.
You can thank the international political elites and their mainstream media lackeys for emboldening useful idiots like Maynard.
Leftists have lost the faux moral high road they so pretentiously trotted for decades, people worldwide are rejecting them and their poisonous ideology. Hence the push for censorship and authoritarianism in just about every western nation.
They must be frustrated, obfuscated, rejected and (most importantly) mocked at every conceivable opportunity.
Mail gets deliberately delayed when going to Canada, America, etc.
A 5-7 day NZ Post Courier Service charge (average cost; NZ$80.00) takes an average of a month to arrive at it’s destination, despite paying for ‘Express Courier Service’.
Calling NZ Post at 0800-501501 yields the same result as if one had previously used ‘Track & Trace’ on the NZ Post website (that is…WHEN it’s working and online…)
Strange how the NZ Post agent last time around took a photograph of the flat…
In the U.S., the Postal Service there also takes photos of mail for those who are ‘suspects’ even though a U.S. Citizen may not know that he / she is under some sort of investigation by the numerous oppressive Alphabet Agencies which are modeled after the now-defunct Soviet system.
Not only that, they insert small inflation needles into the side edge of the envelopes, flats, etc. and blow the envelopes up in order to sneak a boroscope into the envelope where the mail is read.
They have also been caught-out PLANTING ILLEGAL SUBSTANCES on a person’s mail in order to frame a …suspect’…!
The latter is well-known, beginning with John DeLorean as a major example, where the Alphabet Agencies try to set a person or company up in order to frame and then criminally charge the same.
If you want to communicate with people, get an encrypted satellite phone.
Want to send documents? Use Protonmail that fully-encrypts.
Have to send a physical object overseas? DX Mail would be ok, BUT…they still go thru the NZ Post System and outbound Customs in most instances.