Royal Mail issues major delivery delay warning in 30 areas – is your postcode affected by ‘significant disruption’?
BRITS have been issued a warning by Royal Mail as delays are set to impact more than 30 postcodes.
Mail centers across four regions of the country have reported “significant disruption.”
It comes after a failure to process or send out mail over the weekend per the ususal schedule.
Such reports have been made by mail centers in Gatwick, London Central, Manchester, Preston, and the South Midlands.
The Royal Mail said on its website: “The mail centres below reporteed not all mail was processed or despatched to scheduel over the past weekend.
“As a result, some mail may be delivered later than planned.”
Royal mail deliveries take place every day of the week other than Sundays.
First-class mail are delivered the day after dispatch while second-class are two days after.
But the complex system can see delays sparked by just one aspect of the mail service experiencing problems.
This could be disruption to mail centers, air mail, road, rail, or local factors could play a role.
According to the Royal Mail, local issues have caused disruptions to a number of delivery offices with 14 further postcodes impacted.
The winter months can often bring temporary mail disruptions due to high levels of sickness causing a surge in mail worker absences.
In such cases the Royal Mail “will rotate deliveries to minimise the delay to individual customers,” the mail service states.
“We also provide targeted support to those offices to address their challenges and restore our service to the high standard our customers would normally receive.”
Currently, this situation is imapcting four offices in Barrhead, Barrow In Furness, Glasgow, and Huntington.
Check the list below to see if your postcode is impacted by the disruptions:
- Gatwick, BN, and RH
- London Central, EC, N, W1 and W
- Manchester, BL, M 0L and S
- Preston, BB, FY, LA, and PR
- South Midland, CV, LE, MK, and NN
The Royal Mail states that mail posted in these areas and due for delivery today in other parts of the UK “may arrive later than planned.”
The following areas are the worst impacted due to staff illness:
- Barrhead DO (G78)
- Barrow In Furness DO (LA13 to LA17)
- Bristol East DO (BS5)
- East Dulwich DO (SE22)
- Glasgow G52 DO (G52 and G53)
- Gosport DO (PO12 and PO13)
- Huntingdon DO (PE26, PE28 and PE29)
- Thornbury DO (BS35)
- Wigton DO (CA7)
All air, rail and road mail networks have “operated to schedule over the past 24 hours,” the website states.
But, the Royal Mail has warned of “service disruption due to severe weather across parts of the UK.”
The wesbite states: “Following the Met Office issued Amber weather warning for snow and ice in parts of the UK on Saturday, 4 January and Sunday, 5 January 2025, the severe weather has impacted our services in some parts of the UK on Monday, 6 and Tuesday, 7 January 2025.
“The safety of our people is our priority, and we will recover our services where it is safe to do so.”
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