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What is the last date to send Christmas cards and parcels via Royal Mail?
You’ve missed the deadline for post to arrive in time for Christmas. Royal Mail had urged customers to “allow plenty of time” for posting items this year, advising that 2nd class items be posted by December 19, and 1st class by December 21. The deadline for special deliveries and tracked guaranteed items was December 22.
However, special deliveries with the company’s “Saturday guarantee” can be sent on December 23.
Why are Royal Mail workers taking industrial action?
The dispute between the postal service and the CWU, which represents more than 100,000 of Royal Mail’s 140,000 workers, centres on pay and conditions.
In the wake of galloping inflation, the CWU argues that the company’s postal workers deserve a pay rise to match price increases. UK inflation topped 11pc last month, a 41-year high.
They are also angry about changes to working conditions that Royal Mail bosses want to make, including a seven-day-a-week parcel service, reducing letter deliveries to five days, increased automation of parcel and letter sorting and later finishing times, to allow more next day deliveries.
Royal Mail says the company is losing £1m a day and that without radical changes the business has no future. Bosses have threatened layoffs and a potential breakup of the business if striking workers cannot be brought to heel.
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