Walkouts condemned But post boxes are already being sealed in affected areas. The Royal Mail, which handles around 80 million items of post each day, apologised to customers for the disruption and condemned the walkouts. Thirteen of the Royal Mail's 43 main centres for sorting post are affected. Loyal workforce' Earlier, John Keggie, deputy secretary of the CWU, said industrial relations in the post office were at an all time low because of radical commercially-inspired changes. Instead, they should sit down with national union officials and hammer out a solution to the dispute.
Postal workers are a loyal and dedicated workforce who are paid very poorly.
Massive backlog' Postal staff at other centres refused to handle mail from Watford and started taking unofficial action. It is thought there is already backlog of five million items as a result of the action in Watford and south London alone. Many of the Royal Mail's 14,000 delivery offices are closed, including 18 in London. The Royal Mail said the Postal Regulator had warned that strikes would benefit competition and threaten jobs. Voters in Stockport wanting to cast a postal vote in next month's election have been told to collect forms from council offices by hand because of the strike.