No. 198/26 Dear Colleague, ROYAL MAIL: FINANCIAL WELLBEING; SALARY ADVANCE Royal Mail is today launching a new facility for monthly paid employees that allows for salary advances, which may be welcomed by some members when facing temporary financial difficulties. All monies advanced will be paid back via payroll at the next salary; therefore essentially this is simply an advance of salary and is not linked to a Salary Sacrifice product, which would be paid back via instalmen

No. 202/26 14th July 2026 Dear Colleague, ROYAL MAIL: CHANGE FOR GOOD – JOINT STATEMENT Further to LTB 126/26 dated 29th April 2026. Branches are advised that there have been a number of changes in the Change for Good (CFG) management team at Royal Mail, and of particular note the HR Director, Performance & Capability, left Royal Mail at the end of June. This has meant slower progress than we originally anticipated in establishing the Shadow National Steering Committee (SNS

No: 196/26 TO: ALL BRANCHES Dear Colleague, National Equality Event – Wednesday 23rd and Thursday 24th September 2026 We are pleased to confirm that this year’s National Equality Event will take place as follows: Date: Wednesday 23rd and Thursday 24th September 2026 Venue: The Grand Hotel Leicester 73 Granby Street Leicester LE1 6ES Times: The event will start with registration on the 23rd

No. 197/26 To: All Branches & Field Officials Dear Colleagues, BRANCH BEST PRACTICE FOR THE NOMINATION PROCESS TO BE CONDUCTED FOR FIELD OFFICIAL ELECTIONS Branches will recall the Branch ballot procedures circulated in LTB 230/25 on 24 October 2025. Whilst Branch Officers and Committees shall establish rules governing the conduct of elections, this documentation provided clarification in certain areas. Given the number of elections being held each year the number of compla

No. 187/26 To: All Branches Dear Colleagues, GDPR/Data Protection – Right to Complain to the Communication Workers Union From the 19th of June 2026, UK organisations that process personal data will be legally required to handle data protection complaints internally before individuals can escalate to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). What changes on 19 June 2026 On 5 February 2026, the ICO confirmed that most remaining data-protection provisions in the Data (Use a

No.186/26 Dear Colleague ROYAL MAIL GROUP: DRUGS AND ALCOHOL NATIONAL COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT – BRIEFING IN BIRMINGHAM TUESDAY 30TH JUNE Further to LTB 174/26. It has now been confirmed that the National Agreement will be rolled out from Monday 6th July and the six-month amnesty (no use of discipline following a positive test) will apply from that date. Branches and Representatives in the five ROD areas not involved in the Drugs & Alcohol Pilot (Greater London, Midlands, North-

No 174/26 Dear Colleague ROYAL MAIL GROUP: DRUGS AND ALCOHOL NATIONAL COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT – SUPPORT & REHABILITATION SERVICE AND FOR-CAUSE TESTING FOR DRIVERS Branches will be aware via the seven LTBs issued last year on this subject matter, that the Postal Executive previously endorsed a number of extensions to the original For-Cause testing Pilot for Drugs & Alcohol, which has been in operation since January 2025, initially in Wales and then across a further six ROD areas.

No. 176/26 Dear Colleague, Incentive Scheme for Delivery Units In July 2025 members endorsed both the Rebuilding Royal Mail Part 1 and Part 2 agreements. Part of the commitments within the agreement was for an incentive bonus scheme to be agreed. Talks began last year on how these schemes would work. The talks within the delivery operations were guided by the following principles: That the scheme would be self-funded. That it would be based on the opportunity to receive a bo

No. 177/26 Dear Colleague Royal Mail: Sports and Social Clubs – RM Decision to Stop Subscriptions from Payroll Further to LTBs 074/26, 086/26 and 107/26 dated 6th and 24th March, and 13th April respectively. Branches are advised that discussions have continued on this matter with Simon Cunniffe, Director HR Services. Unfortunately, we have not been able to persuade Royal Mail to revise their seriously flawed plans to stop our members’ subscriptions to the sports & social clu

No: 178/26 For the Immediate Attention of All: Postal Branches with Parcelforce Members Parcelforce Regional Organisers Parcelforce Representatives Dear Colleagues Joint Statement – Agreed National Guidelines for the Deployment of PDA Outdoor Actuals in Parcelforce Attached for the information of Branches, Parcelforce Representatives and members is a Joint Statement with Parcelforce covering the Agreed Guidelines for the deployment of PDA Outdoor Actuals in Parcelforce. Par

No. 169/26 TO: ALL BRANCHES Dear Colleagues, CWU 2027 Diary We are now taking orders for CWU 2027 diary. Please find attached diary order form. The CWU pocket diary is priced at £2.50 each and the A5 desk diary is priced at £4.00 each. Completed order forms should be returned by Friday 25th September. Diaries will be dispatched w/c Monday 26th October 2026. Any enquiries on this LTB should be addressed to Marcia Murray by email mmurray@cwu.org Kind regards, Marcia Murray Com

No. 168/2026 To: All Branches Dear Colleagues, CWU AWARENESS OF RECALLED PRODUCTS DUE TO ASBESTOS HAZARD RISKS In the last week, the UK office of Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) updated its recalled list of products due to asbestos related risks. In total, 127 toy items and play items have now been recalled since January 2026. Several major retailers including Tesco, Matalan, Asda, Hobbycraft, B&M, Argos, and Aldi have been involved in product recalls from August 2023 thr

No.163/26 Dear Colleague, Royal Mail: Equalisation of New Entrants Pay, Terms & Conditions – Engineering, Fleet & HR Services Within Section 3.1 of the National Agreement, there is a commitment that further negotiations would be held with the aim of concluding an agreement for our New Entrant members within Engineering, Fleet and HR Services by 1st June 2026. Unfortunately, despite everyone’s best endeavours to meet this date, due to the complexities surrounding these areas i

No. 162/26 Dear Colleague, Ballot Result – RMG/CWU Dispute Resolution Processes – Deployment of USO Reform & Equalisation of New Entrants’ Pay, Terms and Conditions Please find attached the independent Scrutineer’s report confirming the result for the above ballots. The results are as follows. On the agreement between CWU and Royal Mail, which includes a resolution on USO deployment and the principle of equalisation: RESULT No. votes % of valid vote Yes 19,348 65.4% No 10,2

No. 160/26 Dear Colleagues, USO DEPLOYMENT AGREEMENT – PART-TIME EMPLOYEE SCOPING EXERCISE – EXTENDED Further to LTB 147/26 regarding the USO Delivery Scoping Exercise. The business have confirmed that to date circa 7,000 employees have completed the exercise but to ensure further requests can be made, both parties have agreed that the exercise will be extended to Friday 5th June. Taking part simply means expressing an interest in one or more options to support the wider plan

No. 159/26 To: All Branches Dear Colleagues, REVISED CWU RULE BOOK – Please find attached the revised 2026 CWU Rule Book. The revised rule book contains the amendments carried at the Rules section of General Conference on Monday 11 May 2026, which for ease of reference are shown in red. Any enquiries should be addressed to dwilshire@cwu.org Yours sincerely Dave Ward General Secretary 26LTB159 REVISED CWU RULE BOOK MAY 2026 RULE BOOK – UPDATED MAY 2026

No. 165/26 Dear Colleague ROYAL MAIL: PENSIONS – THE COLLECTIVE PLAN – REGISTERING OF DEPENDANTS VIA MEMBER SELF SERVICE (MSS) Branches and members are reminded of the importance of registering dependants via the Member Self Service (MSS). To put this matter into perspective, it has been reported that since the launch of the Collective Plan in October 2024 unfortunately there have been 307 deaths in service, and it takes longer for bereaved dependants to receive their paymen

No 158/26 Dear Colleagues, BUSINESS & TRADE SELECT COMMITTEE – RECOMMENDATIONS TO GOVERNMENT REGARDING OFCOM As you will be aware, the CWU recently gave evidence to the Business and Trade Select Committee regarding the service quality crisis at Royal Mail and Ofcom’s failure to properly regulate the wider sector. The CWU particularly emphasised the lack of regulation for parcel courier companies like Amazon and Evri, who use bogus self-employment models to undercut Royal Mail

LTB No: 155/26 Dear Colleague, CWU NATIONAL DELEGATIONS – 2026 TUC CONGRESS 13th -16th September 2026, Brighton LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE 27th – 30th September 2026, Liverpool LABOUR PARTY WOMEN’S CONFERENCE 26th September 2026, Liverpool Further to LTB 127/26 dated 29th April 2026 at the close of nominations the following have been received: TUC Postal Constituency NEC (1 Member) Rob Wotherspoon Bristol & District Amal *Elected Lay Members (7 Members at least 2 delegates mus

No. 150/26 18th May 2026 TO: ALL BRANCHES Dear Colleagues CWU CONFERENCE 2026 – DECISIONS AND CARD VOTES Please find attached copies of the decisions taken during CWU Conference 2026 and the results of the Card Votes that were taken. Any enquiries regarding this Letter to Branches should be addressed to Jo Thair, Central Services Department on telephone number 020 8971 7487, or email address conferences@cwu.org Yours sincerely, Dave Ward General Secretary LTB 150/26 01. Gene