The long-running postal dispute is expected to escalate into a national strike ‑ how will this affect you? The row over job cuts, pay and reduced services has prompted months of regional stoppages. Action over the next few days includes 24-hour strikes in Peterborough, Bristol, Kilmarnock, Leeds, Nottingham and parts of London.
The Communication Workers Union is expected to announce tomorrow the results of a ballot of its members on plans for a national strike. The union's leadership is urging members to vote in favour of industrial action, arguing that a national strike would help secure job security.
Royal Mail says it is doing all it can to keep deliveries going and it is running regional updates on the state of its services.
But remote Scottish islands have been getting a better postal service than Londoners, according to a Guardian survey.
The strike is causing havoc to angry eBay sellers, judging by their online forum.
It's all playing into the hands of private delivery services. One of them, Parcels2Go, is broadcasting regular, news-style adverts about the strike in the hope of picking up trade. A website called Postalstrike is trying to break the strike with a list of private courier services by area.
But the postal workers have some public backing - almost 5,000 Facebook users have signed up to a group called I support the postal workers.
Do you? Or do you have more sympathy with Royal Mail? And whatever your views, how has the dispute affected you?
