A postal union has warned that the government's plans to deliver millions of free reusable masks to residents will pose a massive challenge for workers who will have to handle an "unprecedented" amount of parcels, RTHK reports. The masks will be distributed through Hongkong Post, which estimates that about one million face masks will be delivered every week. He said this is already one registered mail item every two minutes, or up to 30 per hour, and an additional 10,000-plus registered mail items on top of the current workload will be quite a lot. He also said the IT Bureau has not offered any solution to deal with what happens when there is no one at home to accept the face masks, saying that not all housing estates have storage space for parcels. Cheuk said that if postal workers have to leave notes for people to collect their masks at post offices, there could be long queues at counters.

Source: The Standard May 07, 2020 05:25 UTC