Royal Mail have revealed that they could be delays to items being delivered after delays in processing.
Royal Mail has confirmed that staff will do its best to get parcels delivered on time, but they have been experiencing delays earlier this week.
Not all mail was processed or dispatched on schedule, meaning some items may have been, or may be, delivered later than expected.
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A list of mailing centres which experienced delays on Monday and Tuesday, and the postcodes affected, were published.
This included Warrington Mail Centre and Chester Mail Centre.
On Wednesday, December 22, Royal Mail updated it’s website to say that deliveries are operating as normal across most of the country as staff aim to deliver to all addressed six days a week.
However, this “may temporarily may not be possible due to local issues such as Covid-related self-isolation, high levels of sick absence, resourcing, or other local factors”.
The local offices most impacted include:
Warrington (WA1 to WA2 and WA4 to WA5) and St. Helens DO (WA9 to WA11)
The full list of offices and postcodes most impacted:
- Basildon DO (SS13, SS14, SS15 and SS16)
- Belfast West DO (BT10 – BT12 and BT17)
- Bredbury DO (SK6)
- Burnham On Crouch DO (CM0 8)
- Chelmsford DO (CM1 to CM3)
- East Dulwich (SE22)
- Finsbury Park DO (N4 and N15)
- Gerrards Cross DO (SL9)
- Harold Hill DO (RM3)
- Havant DO (PO9-10)
- Henfield DO (BN5 and BN44)
- Hornsey DO (N8)
- Rayleigh DO (SS6)
- Shirley (SO) DO (SO15, SO16 and SO17)
- Shrewsbury DO (SY1 to SY5)
- South Croydon DO (CR2)
- St. Helens DO (WA9 to WA11)
- Stocksbridge DO (S36)
- Sydenham DO (SE26)
- Tredegar DO (NP22 and NP24)
- Upminster DO (RM14)
- Upton DO (CH30 and CH49)
- Warrington DO (WA1 to WA2 and WA4 to WA5)
- Willesden DO (NW10 and NW26)
- Wimbledon DO (SW19)
The website 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 due to local issues such as COVID-related self isolation, high levels of sick absence, resourcing, or other local factors.
“In those cases we will rotate deliveries to minimise the delay to individual customers. We also provide targeted support to those offices to address their challenges and restore our service to the high standard our customers would normally receive.
“We’re sorry for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding. We will regularly update customers on the offices most impacted.”
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