Door to door poppy collector voicing her opinion.

[CharlotteBog]

One of the people doing door to door poppy collecting posted something like this on our village FB page.

"To the lady I have knocked for five years. I won't knock again, quite clear. To the man who said he doesn't support the charity, I won't knock again."

It's in amongst the thanks and wows and stuff. I suppose a couple of people were rude to her. I don't think that's nice, but I really don't think it's good form to then slag them off on FB. What is the point? Not when you're volunteering to raise money.

She has posted anonymously, though everyone knows who it is, because there are only 2 people collecting in that part of the village and she has a very distinctive writing style.

It's our village page which has over 2k members, not some random little group.

They not allowed to knock on doors now
Report this. Yanbu. The Facebook post is bullying.

I'm not. I'm the other end of the village!

I agree.

I didn't know this. Opens up a whole different can of worms.

Whaaaaaattt 😂😂😂

It's not me, no.

Isn’t cold calling collecting door to door frowned up on? The Charities commission has strict rules on this.

You can leave collecting envelopes through doors to collect later or ask for them to be dropped off at a collecting point but strong arm tactics or name shaming is defiantly against the rules.
Who ever is in charge of this needs to have a quiet word with her to back off and remove those Facebook posts.

As long as there are tyrants and dictators we will need wars to stand up to them.

I may be missing something here, but I don't understand how or why, in this modern high-technology age, it never seems to be possible to pinpoint and target and kill the actual tyrants themselves - as well as their goons, if need be.

Why does it always have to be ordinary people on both sides who are sent to die, and children bombed to oblivion, whilst the evil megalomaniacs who begin and perpetuate it all escape unharmed every single time?

If you don't agree with where they were deployed that's a political decision that you can hold politicians responsible for.

It's not just where they were deployed though it's also the actions of certain soldiers once deployed. I'm thinking Derry in 1972.

It’s not a popular opinion because remembrance is about as far from a celebration as you can get.

I agree that the purpose/perception of the poppy has largely changed from a dignified symbol of support by those choosing to wear one into a way for many to bully and shame those who don't wear one for whatever reason.

I don't like door-to-door charity collections at all, but I'm not aware of any other charities whereby they expect you to publicly identify yourself as having given, as well as actually giving.

Also it is the donation that is more important, not wearing a piece of coloured cardboard.

Garbage, that covers it.

If that were the case, we should have packed it in as soon as the Battle of Britain was effectively won, as the danger of invasion went away at that stage. We were of course doing considerably more, fortunately.

We also need to bear in mind that the poppy is not solely in remembrance of the dead of WW2.

Maybe check that history book again?

It's not celebrating murder. It's showing respect to thousands of servicemen and women who fought on our behalf when we were being attacked.

🤣😂 ME REMEMBER FALLEN!

Those who join today do so willingly, and in full knowledge of the sorts of places politicians have deployed the armed forces to in living memory.

"Only following orders, I go where I'm told" doesn't wash and frankly hasn't for decades now.

@CharlotteBog please post on FB that the RBL stopped this 7 years ago! Would love to hear her response 😂

The poppy sellers in the shops this weekend were also vociferously slagging off people who weren't wearing one and didn't stop and buy one.

Maybe there's a worst class of poppy seller these days? I don't know.

I went past in a rain jacket with no poppy on and I don't want to pin holes in that so I came in for the treatment.

It's a bit soon for me until it's the week of.

And I tend to buy a brooch or a poppy bag or scarf for my mum instead of constant paper & plastic poppies.

I've got one on my top today AND on my coat.

Our receptionist has got three different colours of poppy on.

Remembrance Day is to remember those who died in conflict, it is not a celebration at all.
Visit the War graves in Europe and see the rows and rows of headstones of young men of all nationalities, the simple graveyard in France where graves of German soldiers are among the those of French resistant fighters, the local people look after the graveyard and those German soldiers graves are as equally well tended as the others. “A mothers son fell here, we care for him” was the inscription on one of them.

Load of rubbish!!!

Door to door collections were only stopped during lockdown.

Poppy Collectors can go door-to-door. But can't knock on doors that have a "No canvassers" sticker.

Agree that this Poppy collector is out of order and if want to report, go to your shop/garage/post office and look and the name on the back of the Poppy tin.

That is Poppy Appeal Organiser (PAO) who is a volunteer who organises the collectors in your area. Drop them a text explaining your concerns.

It is shaming though.

If someone has told her not to knock again and they won't be donating, regardless of reason, then at the time she can say 'OK, I wont'.

It doesn't need a vaguebook 'to the person who blah, here's some public passive agressive bollocks'.

It's also inviting people to respond with comments about how awful it is that someone didn't buy a poppy, adding even more shaming to the whole thing.

And you are in here doing the same thing OP 🤷🏻‍♀️

Honestly I'm a little bit perplexed that so many people would class this as bullying? Maybe I've just got the hide of a rhino, but even if I knew it was me, I wouldn't have been doing anything wrong at all to decline to answer the door or declining to support a charity. So I'd probably roll my eyes and not think of it again.