No mail for a week

Homes and firms will get no mail for a week after postal workers began their longest strike for 11 years.

The unions blamed the mass walkout, set to cost businesses millions of pounds, on ministers' "deafening silence" and the absence of Royal Mail chiefs from last-minute talks.

The CWU hit out at Government departments, including the Home Office under Jacqui Smith, which are in charge of the Royal Mail, claiming they should intervene.

Its leader Billy Hayes said: "The Gover... (83 more words)

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