Please see email from mailbox movies they are expreincing problems due to the Royal Mail postal strike, Their website was down due to hardware problems but is working now.
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We have decided to write to you as there have been some problems over the last few days with Royal Mail deliveries.
You are probably aware of the official 1-day strikes which have occurred in the London area. These have been problematical but we have only experienced short delays as a result of these strikes (1 or 2 days).
However, over the last few days, Royal Mail staff at our local sorting offices, have gone on an unofficial strike. This is causing further delays, and at this time we do not know when this dispute will be over.
Quote (Royal Mail):
"I regret to inform you that Unofficial Industrial Action is currently being taken by staff at Greenford Mail Centre and Southall Collection Hub. Unfortunately, this means that customer collections are being disrupted in the NW, HA and UB1-6 postcode areas..."
What we are doing to try to overcome this, is to dispatch our post to a sorting office far outside of the area. This will avoid our outward post being delayed but we are unable to guarantee our usual level of service until this strike action is over. However, as this action is not official, we do not expect this to last very long.
Could we please ask you to allow a little longer for your disks to arrive as we are being overwhelmed by customer enquiries at this time.
Could we also take this opportunity to apologise for the short outage with our servers earlier this week. This was due to a massive hardware failure on a new server, which was not only totally unexpected, but involved rebuilding our primary server from scratch and so took rather a long time to sort out.
I feel sure that we can look forward to normal service from now on.
On behalf of all of the team at Mailbox Movies, could I thank you very much indeed for your patience.
Best wishes
Simon Economides
Director
MAILBOX MOVIES