Postal workers in East London and Liverpool who took unofficial industrial action are expected to return to work.
Up to 2,000 Royal Mail workers staged unofficial strikes yesterday at sites including Glasgow, Lancashire and parts of London, despite an end to this week's official 48 hour strike.
The Communication Workers Union confirmed talks over pay, pensions and working hours have restarted.
Staff in more than 20 delivery offices across the UK took unofficial action yesterday in protest at changes to their hours.
Some protested that they arrived for a shift starting at 5am but were told that the Royal Mail had implemented changes to shifts so they could not start until 6am.
Up to 130,000 union members had been due to return to work yesterday morning, but the action broke out at the start of the morning shift.
By mid-morning, postal workers were still taking unofficial action in some parts of London and Liverpool after returning to work in Glasgow.
Overall, there was action in around 24 of the 1,400 delivery offices nationwide.
"The overwhelming majority of our people are now back at work clearing a backlog of mail which is equivalent to less than a day's normal postbag," said (lied) a Royal Mail spokesman.
The company said it had given notice over a period of months of changes to the start times of some workers because of new legislation which will restrict the speed of mail vehicles.
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[quote="TrueBlueTerrier"]Postal workers in East London and Liverpool who took unofficial industrial action are expected to return to work.
We are still out in East london.
Glad to hear that SW London have joined us.
We are still out in East london.
Glad to hear that SW London have joined us.