{"id":367609,"date":"2025-08-23T16:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T16:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/367609\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T16:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T16:06:10","slug":"postie-walks-400-miles-from-co-durham-to-cornwall-for-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/367609\/","title":{"rendered":"Postie walks 400 miles from Co Durham to Cornwall for mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Royal Mail postal worker has walked more than 400 miles to raise awareness for mental health and suicide prevention.<\/p>\n

Nikki Gaynor, who is originally from Launceston, Cornwall, began her journey<\/a> on 11 August at the Royal Mail sorting office in Darlington, County Durham, where she now lives.<\/p>\n

Ms Gaynor, who is described as “The Walking Postie”, said she was raising awareness after losing her best friend to suicide and wanted to get people talking about their feelings.<\/p>\n

“I started the journey because in the north-east of England we had the highest suicide rate in the UK, on average six people a week,” she said.<\/p>\n

Ms Gaynor said: “One suicide impacts up to 135 people, so after finding that out and losing my best friend I knew I had to raise awareness to try and save as many people as I possibly could.”<\/p>\n

She has 33 names written on her top and has been adding to the list along the way.<\/p>\n

“On route people have asked me to take their loved one’s names with me as well,” she said.<\/p>\n

“I’ve had them written down on a piece of paper and taking them with me.”<\/p>\n

She said a Royal Mail driver had been following her to ensure she is safe and on average they have been doing between 30 to 39 miles a day.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Ms Gaynor said she was on the “last stretch” after walking from Okehampton to Launceston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Royal Mail postal worker has walked more than 400 miles to raise awareness for mental health and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[105,218,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-367609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115078940973741752","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}