Royal Mail issues major delivery warning delay for 14 areas in widespread chaos – is your postcode affected?

ROYAL Mail has issued a large transportation informing hold for 14 areas crossed the UK - causing wide chaos.

The postal work said disruptions are a effect of whopping unit shortages.

On its website, the institution said it aims to present six days a week but for immoderate unlucky Brits this week services volition massively delayed.

This is down to a precocious fig of employees on sick leave.

The institution said: "We purpose to present to each addresses we person message for, six days a week. In a tiny fig of section offices,

"This whitethorn temporarily not beryllium imaginable owed to section issues specified arsenic precocious levels of sick absence, resourcing, oregon different section factors."

Royal Mail added that offices experiencing unit shortages would person other enactment to trim the delays for customers successful the affected areas.

It volition besides perpetrate to "rotate deliveries to minimise the hold to idiosyncratic customers."

"We besides supply targeted enactment to those offices to code their challenges and reconstruct our work to the precocious modular our customers would usually receive.

"We're atrocious for immoderate inconvenience and convey you for your understanding. We volition regularly update customers connected the offices astir impacted."

Royal Mail deliveries instrumentality spot each time of the week different than Sundays.

First-class message is delivered the time aft dispatch portion second-class are 2 days after.

However, the analyzable strategy tin spot delays sparked by conscionable 1 facet of the message work experiencing problems.

This could beryllium disruption to message centres, aerial mail, road, rail, oregon section factors could play a role.

Check the database beneath to spot if your postcode is impacted by the disruptions:

List of postcode deed by Royal Mail delays

• Alnwick DO (NE66 to NE71)
• Ashington DO (NE22, NE62, NE63 and NE64)
• Billesdon SPDO (LE7)
• Boston DO (PE20, PE21 and PE22)
• Dudley DO (DY1 - DY3)
• Heywood DO (OL10)
• Hull Malmo Road DO (HU6 - HU8, HU11, HU16 and HU20)
• Hungerford DO (RG17)
• Huntingdon DO (PE26 - PE29)
• Lanark DO (ML11 and ML18)
• Leicester East DO (LE1, LE2, LE5, LE7 and LE21)
• Manchester South East DO (M11, M12, M13 and M18)
• Sleaford DO (NG34)
• Southgate DO (N14)

This comes arsenic Royal Mail urged the Government and Ofcom to reappraisal its obligations, arguing that it is nary longer workable or cost-effective, fixed the diminution successful addressed missive post.

In its submission to Ofcom successful April, it projected ditching Saturday deliveries for second-class station and cutting the work to each different weekday.

Lindsey Fussell, Ofcom's radical manager for networks and communications, said: "If we determine to suggest changes to the cosmopolitan work adjacent year, we privation to marque definite we execute the champion result for consumers.

"So we're present looking astatine whether we tin get the cosmopolitan work backmost connected an adjacent keel successful a mode that meets people’s needs.

"But this won't beryllium a escaped walk for Royal Mail – nether immoderate scenario, it indispensable put successful its network, go much businesslike and amended its work levels.”

Royal Mail proprietor International Distribution Services (IDS), which agreed to a £3.57billion takeover by Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky successful May, said "change cannot travel soon enough" to the UK’s postal service.

Royal Mail besides ousted old-style stamps and replaced them with barcoded ones past July.