Postal walkouts leave "fines and bad credit rating" in its wake

As the backlog of letters and parcels refuses to budge thanks to ongoing postal strikes, fresh concerns have sparked for the undelivered items.

It's feared the credit rating of many people will be affected as credit and store card statements remain undelivered.

Plus small businesses may be at risk of incurring overdraft fees if customer cheques aren't delivered to them in time.

Union members say that random sampling of the unmoving delivery heap shows that it's taking between 11 and 14 days for some post to come through.

And if we're relying on banks to be sympathetic, we can think again according to Consumer Focus. It says banks should be flexible with their customers, but at present they aren't going to change their systems because of the Royal Mail dispute.

A Royal Mail spokesperson says that this level of disruption is exaggerated.

Today sees ballot papers for strike action being sent out to all 121,000 postal workers across the UK.

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