The Royal Mail has announced that it will stop its Saturday letter delivery service starting this weekend.
The temporary changes have come into force due to a number of factors including staff absences relating to coronavirus. The changes will only effect its Saturday, with normal Monday-Friday service unaffected.
The statement on the website reads:
“Our postmen and postwomen are working very hard across the UK in challenging conditions. As we said at the start of the coronavirus crisis, there will be some disruption to services. Relevant factors include high levels of coronavirus-related absences and necessary social distancing measures.
“We understand the importance of the postal service in keeping the UK connected at this time. We have also listened to our hard-working colleagues who have asked us to ease the additional burden on them if possible. As a result, we are making some temporary changes to postal services.”
However, The Royal Mail has said it will continue to deliver Special Delivery and tracked items.
The statement continues:
“From 2 May we will temporarily no longer deliver letters on a Saturday. We will continue to provide a letter delivery service from Monday to Friday as normal. We will continue to deliver Special Delivery, Tracked, all non-account services and most other parcels from Monday to Saturday across the country.
“Customers should continue to post both letters and parcels as usual on Saturday. We will continue our Saturday collections from businesses, post offices and post boxes as normal.”
