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There are just days left to post Christmas cards and packages with Royal Mail, amid fears that backlogs are building as workers launch into six days of strikes. The postal service has been forced to bring forward its final festive posting dates because of a series of walk outs by …

Many among the animated crowd are wearing pink hi-vis vests, waving flags and holding placards that read “strike to win” and “save our Royal Mail” Video Loading Video Unavailable The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Thousands of Royal Mail workers attend picket line in London Thousands of Royal Mail …

Huge piles of undelivered post are reportedly being left out in the elements at Bristol Mail Centre. And staff at the Filton site 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. A Royal …

Exclusive: Photos handed to the Mirror show cages full of post waiting outside mail centres in Bristol and Warrington. Royal Mail insists it’s ‘typical for this time of year’ – but union sources claimed it shows ‘chaos’ in the system Video Loading Video Unavailable The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play …

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Britons are preparing for a holiday season of delayed packages, cancelled trains, and medical shortages, as hundreds of thousands of workers plan to walk off the job amid a nationwide cost of living crisis. Union members from rail networks, buses, the postal service, the health sector, and border patrol are …

Royal Mail have petitioned the UK Government to cut letter services down to five days a week after admitting heavy losses following crippling industrial action. Three days of crippling strikes in the first half of the year are reported to have cost the organisation around £70 million. Further strikes in …

Edward Mountain. Receiving letters and parcels before midday has been the expectation for many up and down the country for generations. However, the Royal Mail’s restructuring plans are set to drastically change delivery times altogether. The company now wants posties to start their working day later and therefore finish later. …

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s upcoming mini budget is set to be a disaster and shows they haven’t learnt anything, writes Kevin Maguire Rishi Sunak’s voodoo economics are insane, writes Kevin Maguire ( Image: Steve Taylor/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock) Chopping Britain’s legs off with spending cuts and tax rises …

A Leicester City Council employee struggling with grief and depression should not have been formally disciplined for a photo of a co-worker with a sex toy stuck to his head, a tribunal has ruled. Employment Judge Richard Adkinson said the worker in the photo – who was wearing council-branded clothing …