Greater Victoria postal workers will be saluting health-care staff Thursday night by driving post office vehicles past Royal Jubilee and Victoria General hospitals.
Fire trucks will be providing an escort.
Postal workers will divide into two groups, with those from the Glanford Avenue depot going to Royal Jubilee and those from the Station Avenue depot going to Victoria General.
Participants will be completing their routes for the day before heading to the two facilities to get vehicles, said Jessica Dempster, president of Canadian Union of Postal Workers Local 850.
“It’s kind of a way to really show our appreciation for those workers, all the workers in the hospitals — all of them, the doctors, the nurses, the cleaners, everyone that’s going in there every day,” she said.
Dempster said the response from postal workers has been “pretty overwhelming.”
The plan is for the Royal Jubilee group to meet at the Save-on-Foods at Fort Street and Foul Bay Road and the Victoria General to muster on Hospital Way, both from 6:30 to 6:45 p.m.
That puts them at the hospitals in time for the nightly public noise-making at 7 p.m. for front-line workers. If time allows, the postal workers will also visit some grocery stores, Dempster said.
