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The Royal Mail has been slammed after making a bizarre request to staffers’ families to help ‘save Christmas’. As many of you will be well aware, members of the CWU union – which represents more than 115,000 postal workers – recently took national strike action amid calls for better pay. …

A CWU spokesperson added that “Royal Mail are risking serious security risks by bringing in completely untrained randomers with no experience to plough through your Christmas post. “There is a better day of dealing with this backlog: stop the destruction of your workers’ livelihoods, guarantee you’ll treat them with the …

Commuters face a second day of severe rail disruption today (Wednesday, December 14) as members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) are joined in walkouts by Royal Mail workers, and nurses prepare to take unprecedented industrial action. As on the first day of the 48-hour strike, around half …

Christmas is just a matter of a few days away, so the mad dash for last minute shopping is well and truly upon us. And for those of you who’ve still not sent off your cards or presents yet, you will need to get a move on if you want …

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 …

Small business owners are urging customers to get their orders in as soon as possible in an effort to avoid delays caused by a series of Royal Mail strikes. The Communication Workers Union has called on its members at Royal Mail to take national strike action today (11 December), as …

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Christmas postal chaos is looming, it has been claimed, after photos emerged showing what appears to be a huge backlog of mail piling up at depots from the recent wave of strikes. The images are said to have been taken in the last few days, the Mirror reported, and show …

Royal Mail workers have walked out on strike and members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) are planning seven more strikes in December, including Christmas Eve. The union said its members will be in London on December 9 for the “biggest strike demonstration this country has ever seen”. CWU general …

Royal Mail bosses are being branded as “woke” after they banned postmen from flying patriotic flags on the company’s 48,000 vans and lorries during the World Cup. All flags – of England, Wales and other countries – are barred from the Royal Mail’s delivery vehicles, as well as from tens …