Multiculturalism: As postal workers assigned to the Malmö district of Seved feel too threatened to carry out their duties, the residents themselves will now have to deliver their own post.
[Note: This article was originally posted on January 17th, 2012. The IFNM website was attacked by hackers and many articles are now gone from the archives. As a public service, IFNM is now reposting said articles.]
”You do what you have to do, we have to solve it somehow. And we have no idea how it will work before we have tried, that’s how I look at it,” Swedish Postal Service (Posten) district manager Rolf Weiffert to local paper Skånska Dagbladet.
For months, Seved has been plagued by continuing problems.
Threatened postal workers in the area were forced to carry panic alarms and many residents say they don’t dare go out at night.
From February 1st, two residents in the area will help authorities deliver mail to some 500 households in the area.
The Posten and Malmö city will be co-operating on the project, which will begin as a 6 month trial project and focus on getting young people engaged in postal delivery, according to the newspaper.
“I’m satisfied,” Anders Malmquist, district manager with the city of Malmö, said.
“Young adults get an insight and an understanding of how it is to work in the postal service.”
The two young people who will deliver the letters are currently being recruited.
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