Delivery disruption to 25 postal areas

Royal Mail (RMG.L) has warned that 25 UK delivery offices are experiencing disruption in the run-up to Christmas.

The postal service puts the disruptions down to “local issues such as COVID-related self isolation, high levels of sick absence, resourcing, or other local factors”.

Royal Mail has assured customers that it was working to minimise delays to the delivery of Christmas post by rotating deliveries in the affected areas and providing “targeted support”.

However, the postal service said: “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.”

The Royal Mail website lists 25 affected offices across the UK that are experiencing disruption to normal services.

On Monday, the BBC reported that “Royal Mail has confirmed that absence levels are almost double those seen in 2018 before the coronavirus pandemic”, citing a source with close knowledge of the companies operations who said the internal situation is “horrific” due to sickness.

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The source claimed: “It’s much worse than a normal Christmas,” according to the BBC.

Most of the postal service’s 1,200 offices remain unaffected by the disruptions.

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The full list of the hardest hit delivery offices:

• Belfast West DO (BT10 – BT12 and BT17)

• Belper DO (DE56)

• Bowthorpe DO (NR5, NR8)

• Burnham On Crouch DO (CM0 8)

• Buxton NR SUDO (NR10 5)

• Chelmsford DO (CM1 to CM3)

• Congleton DO (CW4 and CW12)

• Eccles DO (M30)

• Farnborough DO (GU14)

• Finsbury Park DO (N4 and N15)

• Havant DO (PO9-10)

• Hornsey DO (N8)

• Kinlochleven SPDO (PH50)

• Longton DO (ST3 and ST11)

• New Ferry DO (CH32, CH62 and CH63)

• Northwich DO (CW8 to CW9)

• Pontypridd DO (CF37, CF38 and CF46)

• Rayleigh DO (SS6)

• Shrewsbury DO (SY1 to SY5)

• St. Helens DO (WA9 to WA11)

• Stocksbridge (S36)

• Upminster DO (RM14)

• Upton DO (CH30 and CH49)

• Warrington DO (WA1 to WA2 and WA4 to WA5)

• Willesden DO (NW10 and NW26)

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