Airlines and train companies have warned that services may be affected. Ongoing (issue start date: 03/01/17)īelgium – Workers across several sectors in Belgium took industrial action on December 19th 2017. This has led the Bangladesh Customs to scrutinise each and every shipment, which is causing delays in the release of all shipments including mail. Ongoing (issue start date: 18/12/17)īangladesh – Bangladesh Customs have witnessed an increase in the number of wrongly declared shipments. International Service UpdatesĪrgentina – A general strike called by the CGT union has forced airlines to cancel hundreds of domestic and international flights to and from airports throughout the country, including Buenos Aires-Jorge Newbery (AEP) and Buenos Aires-Ezeiza (EZE) airports. Snow in various parts of the UK may cause delays in the collection, processing and delivery of mail. This is updated throughout the week with latest information available. It said letters were likely to arrive more quickly if posted at local post offices.ĬWU has timed the dispute – like the last national strikes two years ago – to coincide with Royal Mail's busiest time of year, the run-up to Christmas.Ī host of large business customers, including the online retailers Amazon and Argos, will switch to rival operators.Here you will find the latest UK & global service updates and a list of upcoming worldwide public holidays. Where this cannot be done by email, plans are understood to include the use of other postal groups if industrial action continues.Ī spokeswoman for the watchdog Consumer Focus repeated calls for Royal Mail and the CWU to resolve the dispute under the aegis of the conciliation service Acas. This week, the Department of Health said that it was putting contingency plans in place to make sure patients get important information, such as notice of appointments and test results. But Royal Mail is the only company able to deliver on a national basis to the "last mile" – from the local sorting office to people's homes – which is why a strike will have such a devastating effect. Rival postal operators such as UPS and TNT Post have ramped up operations to make sure some parcels get delivered. Delays for these deliveries will also increase further. First class mail sent in London is already taking a week to get delivered, and up to 10 days around the country. The broker is advising clients that business post – such as bank statements and energy bills – which normally would take 7–10 days to arrive will now take 20 days. This will add an estimated 150m items to the existing backlog of about 30m letters and parcels, which it said would take two weeks to clear, provided no further strikes took place. Post-Switch estimated that less than a third of mail normally delivered will get through tomorrow and on Friday – about 33m items out of the 110m typically delivered daily at this time of year. The first of the 30,000 temporary staff which Royal Mail is taking on will not start work until next week to help clear the backlog, the company said.
Some 12,000 managers – members of the Unite union, which is not supporting the industrial action – will go into work and do some deliveries themselves. Royal Mail will operate a skeleton service tomorrow and on Friday as a result of the staggered strikes, involving more than 100,000 mail centre workers, delivery men and women and drivers. "While Royal Mail works through the backlog of letters, it's unfortunately a case of first in, last out," he said. Letters waylaid by the first strikes will be the last to get delivered because they will be literally at the bottom of the pile. Jonathan de Carteret, founder of broker Post-Switch, said that Royal Mail was using special warehouses to house the undelivered mail which will get topped up as and when more strikes take place. But if the industrial dispute between Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union (CWU) drags on and more strikes are called, some letters stuck in the system will take even longer to reach their destination.
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