Every job deserves respect, especially the delivery riders who contribute to executing mass purchasing order during this pandemic.
Inspired by how Americans show appreciation to their delivery person, Natasha Hidayah Hashim, 29, started to provide free snacks and beverages in front of her door for them to take. She has just started doing this about two weeks ago.
Shortly after she tweeted about her act of kindness, she went viral on Twitter, generating 5.4k likes and 2.7k retweets.
“I got this idea from Twitter, where Americans would leave snacks outside of their house for the delivery riders. Actually, I seldom do online shopping myself.” She said during an interview with Mstar.
Until recently, when the Movement Control Act (MCO) was reintroduced as the pandemic has worsened, she started to increase her online shopping activity and food delivery orders.
Besides the inspiration from the Americans, she also felt moved when she came across a driver that brought his kid along while performing his duty.
Motivated to show appreciation to the delivery drivers/riders, she started by providing biscuit outside her house. When it is finished, she started to put snacks and mineral water, and even planning to provide packaged lychee juice.
“The weather is getting hotter as well, hope that this would save their time from going to the store, as they would want to be faster in completing their job as well,” she said.
She also mentioned that some delivery persons even asked her permission before taking the snacks and drinks for free.
“They seem pleased about that. ” She said,
Her tweet has also inspired other netizen to follow her act of kindness, leaving comments saying that they are going to do this as well.
One of the netizens even shows that she is doing this to the garbage truck worker.
“I didn’t expect that I get to inspire others to do the same when I post the tweet.” Said Natasha.
She also said that she considers the delivery person to be a “front-liner”, as they are also risking their lives to deliver us food and parcels.
“I sincerely hope that all the delivery riders are protected and always stay safe,” she said.
Again, #kitajagakita! Stay safe, dear readers! We’ll overcome this together!
Sources: MStar
Editor: Raymond Chen
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