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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Mark Sweney

Royal Mail brings forward last posting dates for Christmas

A Royal Mail postbox and van in west London
Royal Mail says it is focused on restoring its service ‘to the high standards our customers expect to receive’. Photograph: Martin Godwin/the Guardian

Royal Mail has brought its final posting dates for Christmas forward by about a week amid industrial action by its workers, as the regulator told it to stop blaming the Covid pandemic for failing to make deliveries on time.

Royal Mail, which is facing six days of strikes this month running up until Christmas Eve, has told the public to send their cards and presents even earlier than usual if they want them to arrive in time.

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