Royal Mail has revealed a number of postcode areas across the UK won’t receive mail on time this weekend. The delivery firm aims to post letters six days a week, with parcel services also taking place on Sundays.
However, it has confirmed there are delays across its network for Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 June. Royal Mail said: “We aim to deliver to all addresses we have mail for, six days a week.
“In a small number of local offices, this may temporarily not be possible due to local issues such as high levels of sick absence, resourcing, or other local factors.
“In those cases, we will rotate deliveries to minimise the delay to individual customers. We also provide targeted support to those offices to address their challenges and restore our service to the high standard our customers would normally receive.”
It added: “We’re sorry for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding.” Delays are impacting areas including Nottingham, Oxfordshire, Ashington, Ilfracombe and Pontyclun.
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Royal Mail has faced criticism over late deliveries and was fined £21million by Ofcom in October as a result. The company missed its targets after it delivered just 77% of First Class post and 92.5% of Second Class post on time in 2024 to 2025.
This year, Royal Mail has set out improve targets. It is aiming to improve First Class Next Day delivery to around 85% within nine months, before reaching the 90% target set by regulator Ofcom within a year.
Royal Mail also vowed to deliver 93% of Second Class letters within three days over the course of nine months, and to hit the 95% target by May next year.
Royal Mail said there was a “challenging start to the year” and insisted things were improving.
By March, Royal Mail said it was delivering 81.1% of First Class mail within one working day and 90.2% of Second Class mail within three working days.
Jamie Stephenson, Royal Mail’s chief operating officer, said: “We’re putting significant investment into improving reliability and reaching these new delivery targets, but delivering lasting change across a network of this scale takes time.
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“Universal Service reform is a key part of that, helping us adapt the network to reflect how people send and receive mail today while protecting the one-price- goes-anywhere service for the future.
“We have a plan to deploy the new delivery model to all delivery offices across the country by the Christmas peak period and have set clear targets for each quarter as changes are introduced across the network. Early performance this year shows we are tracking in line with the plan and moving in the right direction.”
- Aberdare DO (CF44, CF45)
- Ashington DO (NE22, NE62 – NE64)
- Banbury DO (OX15 – OX17)
- Bicester DO (OX25, OX26, OX27)
- Bridge Of Don DO (AB22, AB23)
- Chipping Norton DO (OX7)
- Flint DO (CH6 and CH8)
- Huntingdon DO (PE26 – PE29)
- Ilfracombe DO (ME13)
- Lydney DO (GL15)
- Nottingham City DO (NG1, NG3)
- Oxford East DO (OX3, OX4, OX33, OX44, OX49)
- Pontyclun DO (CF72)
- Portslade DO (BN41, BN42)
- Tarporley DO (CW6)
- Tobermory SPDO (PA75)