Overview
- Royal Mail reports delayed letters and parcels in 146 postcodes across the UK, with 55 delivery offices currently affected.
- The operator cites high sick absence, resourcing pressures or other local factors concentrated at specific delivery offices.
- Air and road transport networks remain on schedule, and all mail at sorting centres was processed and dispatched in the last 24 hours.
- Targeted support is being provided to impacted offices, and rotating delivery rounds is intended to spread delays more evenly.
- Regional snapshots include 16 postcodes in Yorkshire and 24 in the North East, with affected areas such as Dundee, Hull, Penarth, Shrewsbury and Glasgow.