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Next strikes – visit a picket line!

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Friday 6 November – 24 hours from 3am – all functions (Mail Centres, Network, Delivery Offices)

Monday 9 November – 24 hours from 3am – all functions (Mail Centres, Network, Delivery Offices)

How do I find a picket line to visit?

First of all, there are picket lines at three sorts of places:

Delivery offices

There are around 1,400 delivery offices.  They each serve a postcode (e.g. N1), or a few postcodes (e.g. E2, E8, E9).  This is where each postman or postwoman sorts the mail into the right order for their walks: there is one near you, if you have ever had a parcel that couldn’t be delivered, it is where you had to go to pick it up.   If you do not know where yours is, call 08457 740740 (a Royal Mail helpline) and ask (you could say you have lost the calling card you got fo a parcel that couldn’t be delivered).  There will normally be between 80 and 200 workers at each delivery office.  Picket lines will normally be from around 6am to around 10am, perhaps knocking off earlier if it’s raining.

Examples of some picket lines around North East London: E1 (corner of Whitechapel High St and Cavell St), E2, E8, E9  combined (Emma St, off Pritchard’s Row, near Broadway Market and near where Hackney Road meets Mare St), N16 (48 East Bank) amd N1 (Almeida St).

Mail Centres and Network

There are about 50 Mail Centres in the country.  They are large locations where mail is brought once it is collected, and sorted into batches for local delivery offices or other Mail Centres around the country.  The ‘Network’ is Royal Mail’s logistics infrastructure: mostly drivers of large articulated lorries which drive mail between the Mail Centres.  There are a few Network hubs, where lorries unload mail for other lorries and pick up new mail.  Since Mail Centres and the Network operate 24 hours a day, picket lines will be at these locations 24 hours. Perfect for stopping by after work, or whenevever you’ve got a moment!  For example, in London you can stop by:

  • South London Mail Centre, 53 9 Elms Ln, Wandsworth, London SW8 5BB
  • Mount Pleasant Mail Centre, Farringdon Road London, EC1A 1BB
  • East London Mail Centre, Twelvetrees Crescent London, E3 3TT
  • Princess Royal Distribution Centre, Stonebridge Park, London, NW10
  • Heathrow Worldwide Distribution Centre, Axis Park, Sutton Lane , Langley, Berkshire, SL3 8AQ

List of some more Mail Centre and distribution hub addresses here.

MDECs (Manual Data Entry Centres)

There are three MDECs in the country, where Mail whose destination can’t be idenified properly is dealt with – perhaps because it has no postcode.  Roughly 500 workers at each.

  • Plymouth MDEC, Royal Mail, 29 Central Park Avenue, Plymouth, PL4 6DE
  • Stoke MDEC… can anyone send us the address?
  • Stockport MDEC… can anyone send us the address?
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