Many households won’t receive their mail on time today.
Royal Mail has issued another delay update for postcodes across the UK. The delivery firm has warned that people living in certain areas will not receive their mail on time.
As of Thursday, April 2, there are delays in areas including Birmingham, Barry, Deeside and Leatherhead. Royal Mail’s air and road network operated to schedule over the past 24 hours.
However, there are delays in a number of delivery offices. Royal Mail said: “We aim to deliver to all addresses we have mail for, six days a week.
“In a small number of local offices, this may temporarily not be possible due to local issues such as high levels of sick absence, resourcing, or other local factors.
“In those cases, we will rotate deliveries to minimise the delay to individual customers. 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.”
It added: “We’re sorry for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding.”
The latest delivery disruption update comes amid criticism over Royal Mail’s late deliveries. Just last week, its owner Daniel Kretinsky told MPs: “Of course I am deeply sorry for any letters that arrive late.”
However, he denied Royal Mail ‘s track record for letters arriving late was deteriorating. Speaking to the Commons Business select committee, Mr Kretinsky said: “It is not perfect, but it is not catastrophic.”
Royal Mail was fined £21million last October for missing First and Second Class delivery targets in its last financial year.
Next week, customers are being hit with a stamp increase as First Class stamps will go to £1.80 and Second Class to 91p from April 6. The price of a First Class stamp in 2020 was 76p.
Royal Mail said the increases are down to the rising cost of delivery as letter volumes fell and the number of addresses increased.
Its managing director of letters, Richard Travers, said of the price increase: “We always consider price changes very carefully, balancing affordability with the rising cost of delivering mail.”
“On average, UK adults now spend just £6.50 each year on stamps and there are 70% fewer letters sent than 20 years ago,” he added. “In the meantime, the number of addresses we deliver to has increased by four million to 32 million addresses across the UK.”
Royal Mail delays today
- Banbury DO (OX15 – OX17)
- Barry DO (CF62, CF63)
- Birmingham East DO (B8 – B10)
- Deeside DO (CH5)
- Dursley DO (GL11 – GL13)
- Erskine DO (PA7, PA8)
- Hockley DO (SS5)
- Leatherhead DO (KT21 – KT24)
- New Ferry DO (CH32, CH62, CH63)
- Petersfield DO (GU31 – GU33)
- Pontyclun DO (CF72)
- Prenton DO (CH43)
- Yate DO (BS37)
