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The first Christmas deadline for UK postal deliveries will arrive early next week, followed by the second just five days later, with a number of strikes to come too.

Strike action along with the usual backlog over the festive period mean that Christmas cards may not be delivered until February, a union insider has reportedly said

Members of the CWU are planning more strikes in December

Nottingham City Council approved plans for a 13-storey block at the site with 692 bed spaces as it seeks to meet demand for student accommodation.

Thousands of Royal Mail workers have staged a rally to mark another strike in the increasingly bitter dispute over “unachievable” conditions they said would “destroy” the company. Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) from across the UK congregated outside Parliament in central London to voice their anger about the…

The CWU has written an open letter claiming that staff have been instructed to bin door to door mail

They said conditions proposed by the company are ‘unachievable’ and would ‘destroy’ the service

Royal Mail insisted the mountains of parcels outside the centre were "typical for this time of year"

Chaos is expected across Greater Manchester and the rest of the country during the festive period

"We can’t in living memory remember scenes were mail was stored outside like this."

Many among the animated crowd are wearing pink hi-vis vests, waving flags and holding placards that read “strike to win” and “save our Royal Mail”