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Important Dates for Your Calendar: Royal Mail Strike

Weโ€™ve compiled this calendar of dates for the upcoming Royal Mail strike and which operations will be affected.

 

Hopefully, this will help your businesses prepare for any potential disruption or delays coming up to the Christmas season.

 

Dates of Upcoming Royal Mail Strike Action and Royal Mail Services Affected

 

Date of Royal Mail Strike Action 

Royal Mail services that will be affected (The dates in red are days when all Royal Mail services are impacted by the strike)

Thursday 13th October 

All operations including collection, sorting and delivery services. Delivery offices and customer service points will be closed

Thursday 20th October

All operations including collection, sorting and delivery services. Delivery offices and customer service points will be closed

Tuesday 25th October

All operations including collection, sorting and delivery services. Delivery offices and customer service points will be closed

Wednesday 2nd November

Network and national distribution

Thursday 3rd November

Processing, distribution, international, collections and admin. 

Friday 4th November

Parcel and letter deliveries

Tuesday 8th November

Network

Wednesday 9th November

Processing, distribution, international, collections and admin

Thursday 10th November

Parcel and letter deliveries

Monday 14th November

Network and national distribution

Tuesday 15th November

Processing, distribution, international, collections and admin

Wednesday 16th November

Parcel and letter deliveries

Wednesday 23rd November

Network and national distribution

Thursday 24th November

Processing, distribution, international, collections and admin

Friday 25th November

Parcel and letter deliveries

Monday 28th November

All operations including collection, sorting and delivery services. Delivery offices and customer service points will be closed

Wednesday 30th November

Network and national distribution

Thursday 1st December

Processing, distribution, international, collections and admin

Friday 2nd December

Parcel and letter deliveries

 

 

What you can expect on days when national strike action is taking place

  • Royal Mail will deliver as many Special Delivery and Tracked24 parcels as possible.
  • Royal Mail will prioritise the delivery of COVID test kits and medical prescriptions whenever possible.
  • For the duration of the strike no letters will be delivered, with the exception of Special Delivery.

 

How can you prepare

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