Mail strike called off to avoid delaying Christmas post
Postal workers have called off a strike over plans to concentrate mail services in Northamptonshire to avoid delaying post during the Christmas rush.
Members of the Milton Keynes branch of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) have decided to delay industrial action until after the Christmas period.
A 24-hour strike was due to be held on Friday December 19 over plans to close the mail centre in Dawson Road, Bletchley.
Paul Moffat, eastern region secretary of the CWU, said its members decided not to undermine the huge public support they have received by delaying post during the festive season.
"They considered that it is not in our interest or the public interest to hold industrial action over the Chrismas period," he said.
However, strike action could take place at the end of December or in the new year,.
The union is fighting plans to move processing operations to a new state-of-the-art mail centre at junction 15a of the M1 from 2010.
It claims the closure will put up to 600 jobs at risk in Milton Keynes.
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