Royal Mail have advised that the following area is currently seeing delays to deliveries:

• Battle DO (TN32 and TN33)

Customers should expect mail to take longer than usual to arrive.

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Royal Mail has advised that not all mail was processed to schedule at its Gatwick Mail Processing Centre yesterday. Customers should expect delays in the following areas:

• Gatwick Mail Centre: Some mail posted in parts of the BN and RH postcode areas, due for delivery across other parts of the UK.

Royal Mail have also advised that the following areas are currently experiencing delivery delays:

• Havant DO (PO9 and PO10)
• Ulverston DO (LA12)
• Whetstone DO (N20)

Royal Mail have advised that not all mail was processed to schedule yesterday at its Manchester and South Midlands Mail Centres. Customers should expect delays in the following areas:

• Manchester Mail Centre: Some mail posted in parts of the BL, M, OL and SK postcode areas, due for delivery across other parts of the UK.
• South Midlands Mail Centre: Some mail posted in parts of the CV, LE, MK and NN postcode areas, due for delivery across other parts of the UK.

The following areas are currently experiencing delivery delays due to local issues such as high levels of sick absence, resourcing, or other local factors. Customers should expect delays in the following postcode areas:

• Havant DO (PO9 and PO10)
• Manchester North DO (M7 and M8)
• Manchester South East DO (M12, M13 and M18)
• Ulverston DO (LA12)
• Whetstone DO (N20)

Royal Mail have advised that the following areas are currently experiencing delivery delays due to local issues such as high levels of sick absence, resourcing, or other local factors:

• Havant DO (PO9 and PO10)
• Ilfracombe DO (EX34)
• Manchester North DO (M7 and M8)
• Manchester South East DO (M12, M13 and M18)
• Whetstone DO (N20)

Customer should expect delivery to take longer in these areas.

Royal Mail have advised that the following areas are experiencing delays to deliveries:

• Ilfracombe DO (EX34)
• Manchester North DO (M7 and M8)
• Manchester South East DO (M12, M13 and M18)

Customers should expect items to take longer to these destinations.

Royal Mail has advised that not all mail was processed to schedule yesterday at its Exeter and Plymouth Mail Processing Centres. Customers should expect delays in the following areas:

• Exeter: Some mail posted in the EX and TQ postcode areas, due for delivery today in other parts of the UK.

• Plymouth: Some mail posted in the PL postcode area, due for delivery today in other parts of the UK.

In addition to the above the following areas are currently seeing delivery delays due to local issues such as high levels of sick absence, resourcing, or other local factors. Customers should delays in these areas:

• Birchwood DO (WA3)
• Sandhurst DO (GU46 and GU47)
• Sunbury on Thames DO (TW16)
• Woodbridge DO (IP12 and IP13)
• Yatton SUDO (BS49)

Royal Mail have advised that the following areas are currently seeing delays to deliveries due to high levels of sick absence, resourcing, or other local factors. Customer should expect delays in these areas:

• Birchwood DO (WA3)
• Sandhurst DO (GU46 and GU47)
• Sunbury on Thames DO (TW16)
• Woodbridge DO (IP12 and IP13)
• Yatton SUDO (BS49)

We receive a large amount of complaints regarding tracked mail that has been sent to HMRC and has not been signed for at the destination so wanted to make customers aware of the issues we are currently seeing. The majority of items that we post to HMRC particularly to their BX9 postal address show the item having being dispatched to Royal Mail and show no further tracking appearing to be stuck "in transit" to the destination. There are a number of threads on Google which show the same issue:

HMRC 'losing' post | AccountingWEB

Agents expect no improvement in poor HMRC service | AccountingWEB

What we have found is that HMRC receive such a large amount of tracked mail every day that they are not able to scan each individual item as having being delivered. One Royal Mail representative indicated that items arrive for HMRC in a seven tonne lorry and there is simply too much mail to mark each as delivered.

We have been made aware by one of our customers that HMRC often have received the letter but they are simply not showing up as delivered in the Royal Mail tracking information. We would advise any customers seeing an issue with delivery to HMRC to call HMRC directly as it is very likely that they have received the letter but the Royal Mail tracking has never been updated.

We would also like to advise customers that HMRC have a long delay in scanning items into the system once they have been received as they are dealing with a large backlog of mail so it may take them some time to receive items. They advise allowing 4 weeks for items to be scanned into their system.

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The only advice we can give based on the articles we have found above.

· Ensure letters you send are sent to the right place and have the right identification on the letter so it can be identified. Remember these letters are scanned into a system.

· We have found in the past HMRC provides a signature for Special Delivery Mail but not for Signed for Mail or Tracked mail.

· Leave plenty of time for your mail to get there. Royal Mail says second class mail takes 2 days longer. We know from our tests second class mail can take up to a week to arrive in some places.