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The Royal Mail strikes mean many customers might not get their Christmas letters and parcels delivered in time as post remains piled high at sorting offices, postal workers have warned. More than 100,000 unionised employees are expected to have walked out of their posts on Friday after a fresh round …

Christmas cards ‘won’t arrive until February’ because of Royal Mail backlogs, union sources have warned, as hundreds of postal workers marched with ‘Grinch Lynch’ on the first day of mass walkouts. Communication Workers Union (CWU) members congregated outside Parliament in central London yesterday – joined by RMT union leader Mick Lynch …

Staff walkouts at Royal Mail in the run-up to Christmas are expected to cause disruption with new advice to post items sooner than originally suggested. The postal service has moved last-posting dates forward as more strike dates were announced by the Communication Workers Union (CWU). Union members have been taking …

Thousands of Royal Mail workers have staged a rally to mark another strike in the increasingly bitter dispute over “unachievable” conditions they said would “destroy” the company. Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) from across the UK congregated outside Parliament in central London to voice their anger about the …

There are just days left to post Christmas cards and packages with Royal Mail, amid fears that backlogs are building as workers launch into six days of strikes. The postal service has been forced to bring forward its final festive posting dates because of a series of walk outs by …

Royal Mail workers striking outside Mount Pleasant Mail Centre … By the second week of December, Royal Mail's sorting office in central London … Source link

Many among the animated crowd are wearing pink hi-vis vests, waving flags and holding placards that read “strike to win” and “save our Royal Mail” Video Loading Video Unavailable The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Thousands of Royal Mail workers attend picket line in London Thousands of Royal Mail …

If you want cards and presents to arrive by Christmas Day, you should post 2nd class items at the latest by December 19, while 1st class should be sent no later than December 21. Special deliveries and tracked guaranteed items should be sent by December 22. Special deliveries with the …

Strikes are planned in the UK this month by rail workers, passport control officers, and in Royal Mail. Source link

Further strikes are also planned on Sunday and well as on December 14, 15, 23 and 24 and Royal Mail has already warned people to post their Christmas cars earlier than usual this year to ensure they arrive no time. At a mail centre in Leeds, one member of staff …