Royal Mail issues warning to 17 postcodes facing delays – is your area affected?

The Met Office has issued a slew of yellow weather warnings for snow and ice today with treacherous conditions forecast.

Royal Mail is alerting its customers that service interruptions might be imminent, pointing out that “the safety of our people is our priority” when it comes to severe weather disruptions.

Delays have been reported since Monday, and postal services admit that recent snow and ice have “severely impacted” their operations. Today, delays might affect deliveries in 17 UK postcodes spread over 11 regions.

Royal Mail stated: “We aim to deliver to all addresses we have mail for, six days a week. In a small number of local offices, this may temporarily not be possible due to local issues such as high levels of sick absence, resourcing, or other local factors.”

Issues like these have affected 11 delivery offices including those in Dunstable, Thornbury, and Huntingdon, potentially causing later arrivals of parcels. The company has assured customers that it’s working on rotating deliveries to lessen any individual customer’s wait time, reports the Express.

Additional efforts are also underway, with Royal Mail adding: “We also provide targeted support to those offices to address their challenges and restore our service to the high standard our customers normally receive.”

Royal Mail, which operates an extensive network of air, rail and road routes to transport letters and parcels between its distribution hubs, mail processing centres and delivery offices across the UK, has reported that all logistics operations have been running on schedule over the last 24 hours. This comes just days after more than 30 postcodes experienced delays on January 7.

The postal service revealed that mail centres in Gatwick, London Central, Manchester, Preston, and the South Midlands had not managed to process or dispatch all mail as per their schedules over the previous weekend.