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The Latest information from the Royal Mail website regarding the ongoing industrial action is as follows:

We are pleased to confirm that the current industrial action has been suspended. (Hurragh!)

At a meeting today, between Royal Mail and the Communications Workers Union it was agreed:

• that both parties commit to talks on all the issues between them, hosted and facilitated by the TUC and supported by ACAS. Both sides commit to reach an agreement by 4 September.
• that during this period the talks are on a confidential basis with no media or internal briefings unless explicitly jointly agreed. The CWU Executive and Royal Mail Board will receive regular updates on progress and will also be expected to undertake this confidentiality clause.
• that for that period, Royal Mail will not serve notice or take any unilateral action to impose changes by executive action.
  that for the same period, the CWU will suspend industrial action.

We aim to get back to normal as quickly as possible and would like to apologise to all of our customers for any disruption the recent strike action has caused.

Thursday 9th of August:

Collection Offices will be on official strike from early morning, Friday 10th August until early morning, Saturday 11th August. So No collections on Friday and -

Delivery Offices will be on official strike from the evening of Friday 10th August until the evening of Saturday 11th August - no deliveries on Saturday.

The impact of official strike action for week commencing 6th August

• Monday The International hub (HWDC) will be on official strike from 7pm on Monday 6th August till 7pm on Tuesday 7th August. As a result, Royal Mail’s international services, Airsure, International Signed For and Airmail, will be subject to delays
• Tuesday All Regional Distribution Centres (RDCs) and Network drivers will be on official strike from 12 noon Tuesday 7th August till 12 noon on Wednesday 8th August. There may be limited bulk mail collections but these are likely to be earlier in the day than usual. I suppose this means no post on Wednesday then?
• Wednesday The following Mail Centres will be on official strike from 3am on Wednesday 8th August until 3am on Thursday 9th August: Gatwick; Reading and Dartford
• Thursday The following Delivery Offices will be on official strike from 3am on Wednesday 8th August until 3am on Thursday 9th August: Crewe; Portsmouth; Gatwick; Reading; Truro; Swansea and Dartford. We regret that there will be no delivery services in these areas on Wednesday 8th August
• Friday All Postmen will be on strike, therefore there will be no deliveries or collections at all on Friday

Am I allowed to make a comment - being a customer of both Royal Mail and their employees, or better not I suppose.

This is the latest information from the Royal Mail Website

‘For the week commencing Monday 30th July,

The strike will impact the following:

• We anticipate all Mail Centers will be on official strike on Tuesday 31st July.
  Customers can continue to post items as usual on this day, but we recommend posting in Post Boxes outside of Post Offices.
• All Regional Distribution Centres (RDCs) and our Network drivers will be on strike on Wednesday 1st August.
• We regret that there will be limited Delivery services on Thursday 2nd August.
• Collections on Thursday 2nd August will be limited to a single collection from Post Boxes outside of Post Offices, and these collections may be earlier than the normal advertised times.
  We will do all we can to delivery Special Delivery items, but Special Delivery guarantee will be suspended for items posted on Wednesday 1st August and those items due to be delivered on Thursday 2nd August.
• Parcelforce Worldwide’s guaranteed services will remain unaffected.
• Royal Mail’s Branch Direct, Sameday and Door to Door services remain unaffected
• All other mail services will be subject to delay. ‘

Here at Stinkyink Towers as ever we regret any delays to the service that we provide to our customers during this time, but will continue to offer a low cost carrier option to enable you to maintain your printing during this difficult time. We will temporarily suspend offering Royal Mail Special Delivery until the dispute is over. I do wish that both parties would start talking again

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