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Royal Mail has issued a warning that today (December 16) is the final date to post some Christmas mail before December 25. Households across the UK are being urged to get familiar with the final posting dates for Christmas or risk losing out. Today is the last day people can …

Postal workers completed a 48-hour UK-wide strike on Thursday, as rail workers began a two day national stoppage Friday. The postal strike involves 115,000 workers who are demanding a pay increase, an end to attacks on working conditions and the withdrawal of a plan for 10,000 redundancies. The rail stoppage …

DPD has suspended deliveries in nearly 50 postcodes around Bristol, Somerset and Wiltshire as Christmas approaches. Due to the inconvenience caused by Royal Mail’s industrial action on Sunday, December 11, the parcel company has announced delays in its next-day delivery service. After a long-running disagreement about jobs, wages, and working …

Royal Mail officials say they treat all items of mail with equal importance after concerns were raised by Nottinghamshire residents that parcels were being prioritised by the business. Residents in West Bridgford and Lady Bay alleged that a postal worker told them they had been told to only handle parcels …

The Royal Mail has issued an urgent warning that today (December 16) is the last chance to post letters and parcels in time for Christmas. It comes amid several days of protest that have caused major disruption to the postal service. Friday, December 16 is the final date to post …

Christmas is officially just nine days away, meaning you might find that you still have quite a few things left to finish up, including some last minute gifts. If, like so many of us, you are thinking about getting some last minute orders in online, then you might want to …

People hoping to get their letters to loved ones in time for Christmas must post them today if they are certain types of postage, the Royal Mail has warned. On the company’s website, it has set a number of deadlines on when packages and letters need to be posted in …

A ‘missed delivery’ scam email purporting to be from Royal Mail has been reported to police more than 400 times. Action Fraud, the UK’s national reporting centre for Cyber Crime, has issued an alert about the fake emails. It says: “The emails claim that the recipient missed a delivery and …

The Royal Mail has warned TODAY is the final date to post some Christmas letters and parcels before the big day on December 25. The Royal Mail has urged UK households to get to grips with the final posting dates for Christmas. Friday December 16 marks the final date for …

Proposed reforms include Royal Mail’s parcel arm switching to hundreds of freelance “owner-driver” postal workers. Until recently, only a quarter of Parcelforce drivers could be self-employed, but the changes will mean this can be lifted to 100pc, for instance. Royal Mail expects to rack up losses between £350m and £450m …