Pictured: Astonishing mountains of post and idle delivery vehicles at Royal Mail depot – as staff walk out on day one of 48-hour strike Aerial shots revealed hundreds of cages containing delivery items neatly lined up at the Filton office in Bristol A total of 10 days of action have …
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Piles of undelivered parcels and letters have been seen outside a Royal Mail depot amid strike action with sources saying they are being chewed on by foxes and rats. Postal workers in the Communication Workers Union (CWU) are staging a fresh 48-hour national walkout from today, marking their third and fourth …
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Public support for Mick Lynch’s crippling Christmas strikes is tanking – including amongst his own members who will lose up to £5,000 – as pickets thinned out massively today. Britain faces another Covid-style lockdown with the festive season now in ruins for the third year running and businesses face losing …
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So THIS is where all your Christmas presents and post are: Letter and parcels are seen piling up outside Royal Mail centre as workers are set to stage fresh 48-hour strike from tomorrow Royal Mail workers will stage a 8-hour strike from Wednesday, December, 14 The final posting dates for …
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Next-day delivery services by private parcel companies have become the latest casualty of the Royal Mail strike. DPD has temporarily suspended its next-day services in some areas of the UK as it struggles to cope with soaring demand as customers lose faith in Royal Mail because of strike disruption. The …
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Last ditch talks to stop this month’s rail strike hell collapsed today, meaning Britain faces another miserable ‘virtual Christmas’. Walkouts will commence from tomorrow after the RMT union’s decision to reject a new pay deal, which, along with heavy snow, is threatening to grind the country to a halt through the …
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Royal Mail staff, nurses, paramedics, rail workers and Border Force officials will all stage walkouts over jobs, pay and conditions this month as Brits prepare for mayhem over Christmas. December is being described as the ‘new winter of discontent’ – with bus workers, baggage handlers, environment agency staff and paramedics …
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How I miss that distinctive sound of Advent: the heavy thud of 11 envelopes landing on the doormat! Ever since the decline of handwritten letters, which began in the 1990s with the arrival of the internet, Advent has been the one time of year when we could re-live the daily …
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Huge piles of undelivered post are reportedly being left out in the elements at a Royal Mail Centre. Staff at the Filton, Bristol, site also claim they have been told by management to bin flyers and promotional mail with questions raised by the union over the legality of that decision. …
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Writing on social media, it said the hold-up was because of “significantly increased demand due to Royal Mail and rail strikes as well as the demands of the festive season”. It said 98 per cent of its orders usually arrive the next working day, but current delays are expected to …
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