![]() ![]() It comes as a scarcity of online supermarket delivery slots risks sending scores of Christmas dinner plans up in smoke and many Christmas gifts are stuck waiting to arrive in Britain due to chaos at the ports. The Royal Mail has hired 33,000 temporary staff to help deal with demand. Union bosses are reporting similar scenes across the country and have described the Christmas delivery chaos as a 'nightmare' after businesses complained parcels were taking up to a month to arrive.Ī massive switch to online shopping means there are an estimated 200million more parcels in the postal and courier system this year. Online orders are expected to be up by more than 50 per cent as internet festive shopping overtakes the high street for the first time. One image posted on Twitter displayed the huge pile of Royal Mail sacks in Bristol.Ī second showed that sorting offices are so inundated that staff are having to stack items outside, putting parcels at risk of being damaged by rain or even stolen. Thousands of presents remain buried in mountains of post bags at sorting offices, it has been revealed. If your Christmas presents have been rather slow to arrive, this enormous pile of parcels may explain the delay. ![]()
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