Royal Mail: 115,000 postal workers walk out on Friday

Royal Mail postal workers are striking on Friday in a dispute over pay. Letters will not be delivered on strike days and some parcels will be delayed, Royal Mail warned. Royal Mail's latest adjusted operating profit for the year to March was £416m, up from £344m a year earlier. A Royal Mail spokesperson said the business could not "cling to outdated working practices, ignoring technological advancements and pretending that Covid has not significantly changed what the public wants from Royal Mail"."While our competitors work seven days a week, delivering until 10pm to meet customer demand, the CWU want to work fewer hours, six days a week, starting and finishing earlier," they added. "The CWU's vision for Royal Mail would create a vicious spiral of falling volumes, higher prices, bigger losses, and fewer jobs.

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