The Communications Workers Union (CWU) has announced further strike action, in the form of two 48-hour strikes, from lunchtime on Thursday October 4 - lunchtime on Saturday October 6, and from the early hours of Monday October 8 - early hours Wednesday October 10.
This will be followed by an unspecified programme of weekly strikes, starting w/c October 15, until the resolution of the dispute.
"The situation is very serious, as this action will severely limit our ability to provide any services for the coming period," said the Royal mail in a statement. "Customers should expect severe disruption to all postal services during the strikes and for a significant period afterwards. We will endeavour to deliver Special Delivery items on the due day, however we have suspended money back guarantees for items posted on 4th October onwards. These guarantees will be restored as soon as we are confident we can offer our normal high quality service."
Log on to www.royalmail.com/update for a full assessment of the situation and the anticipated effect on services.
•Again, this will obviously affect the arrival times of your weekly FPJ. It is completely beyond our control, but we apologise for any convenience.
