Post ‘piles up’ at Royal Mail offices amid warning cancer screening letters could be missed

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Post ‘piles up’ at Royal Mail offices amid warning cancer screening letters could be missed
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🔴 Post has been “piling up” at sorting offices during Royal Mail strikes, with an NHS mammographer warning that women could miss breast cancer screening letters

The fresh wave of industrial action launched this week is understood to be “catastrophic for Christmas”, according to a union source, with Royal Mail staff already struggling to work through the “massive backlog” of letters and parcels caused by the previous round of strikes in October.

Surinder Sapal, a superintendent mammographer in charge of the breast imaging unit at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Breast Screening Service, warned that women coulddue to the strikes, meaning they might not be prompted again for another three years.

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