No. 220/26 For the Immediate Attention of All: Postal Branches with Eurest Members Area Processing Representatives Area Delivery Representatives Area Distribution Representatives Divisional Representatives Dear Colleague Urgent Update – Eurest Catering Review The department has been in discussions with Royal Mail concerning a Eurest catering review of all sites, including their plans on phased closure’s. Several meetings on this issue were held and the CWU made it clear tha

No. 218/26 Royal Mail Group – Sun Safety Communications 2026 Dear Colleagues, This week, Royal Mail Group have made available two new workplace-based posters on Sun Safety for issuing across Royal Mail and Parcelforce as we continue to face hotter and more extreme heat conditions during this summer period. These posters are designed to offer short and practical advice in terms of ‘things you can do to cool someone down’ and also highlight symptoms and early warning signs link

No. 217/26 Dear Colleague, Royal Mail: PFSL Pay Negotiations 2026 – Impasse Reached Further to LTBs 0144/26 dated 8th May. Despite expressing our optimism that we could reach an Agreement after a couple more meetings with PFSL, unfortunately due to factors beyond our control, negotiations have come to an abrupt halt, and disappointingly management have consistently failed to respond in any meaningful way to our formal pay claim. I do of course understand that members will be

No. 216/26 To: All Branches Dear Colleagues, CWU Retired Members Conference – Wednesday 14th October 2026 The CWU Retired Members Conference will be held on Wednesday 14th October 2026 at the offices of CWU Birmingham District Amal Branch, 47 Summer Lane, Hockley, Birmingham B19 3TH. Delegates Only Branches with Retired members Sections are entitled to send Delegates. Branch delegate entitlement to this Conference as agreed by the NEC is as follows: Number of Retired Membe

No. 215/26 TO: ALL BRANCHES Dear Colleagues, CWU Young Workers Conference – Wednesday 21st October 2026 The CWU Young Workers Conference will be held on Wednesday 21st October 2026 at the Mechanics Institute, 103 Princess Street, Manchester M1 6DD. Each Regional Young Workers Sub Committee will be entitled to submit ONE motion to the Conference Agenda. Each Branch will be entitled to submit ONE motion to the Conference Agenda. The National Young Workers Committee will be enti

No. 214/26 Dear Colleague, ROYAL MAIL GROUP: NEW ENTRANTS – CONTRACTS OF EMPLOYMENT Branches will be aware that Paragraph 3.2 of the agreement for the Equalisation of New Entrants’ Pay, Terms, Conditions, and specifically the third bullet point, commits both the CWU and Royal Mail Group to review the contracts of employment for New Entrants as part of the relationship reset. For the avoidance of doubt, the review includes the contracts for New Entrant OPGs and those in Engi

Update on Reset Over the last few weeks since the National Agreement was endorsed, we have been working with Royal Mail on how to launch the much needed Reset of Employee and Industrial Relations. You will have seen that the Royal Mail CEO, Alistair Cochrane wrote to all employees to express his support for the Reset of both Employee and Industrial Relations (copy attached). Alistair Cochrane, Kieran Judd (Chief People Officer), Jamie Stephenson (Chief Operations Officer), A

No. 211/26 Dear Colleague, ROYAL MAIL: WINDING UP THE RMDCP SCHEME – TRANSFER OF MEMBER ASSETS TO LEGAL AND GENERAL MASTERTRUST IN JULY 2026 Further to LTB 195/26 dated 8th July 2026. RMDCP eligibility is – all people who commenced RMG employment from 1st April 2008 until 6th October 2024. Also, this LTB is in specific to the RMDCP only, meaning the RMPP and the Collective Plan are unaffected. Welcome to Legal & General Letters Branches are advised that the “Welcome to L&G” l

No. 209/26 Dear Colleague Royal Mail Group: Hybrid Working Policy – Decision to Impose Four Day Working in the Workplace – Exceptions Process and Appeals Further to LTB 200/26 dated 13th July. Branches will be aware that Royal Mail, at the highest level of the company, recently introduced a policy to increase the number of office days from three to four for hybrid workers, with a targeted date of 1st August. As Branches and members would expect, we robustly challenged managem

No. 203/26 Dear Colleague, UPDATE ON DM26 It is now just over six weeks since the membership ratified the USO reform agreement. The attached report is designed to give reps and members a full update on the 120 Delivery units that were deployed up to Monday 13th July. This is without a doubt the biggest-ever change to deliveries, and the full terms and safeguards of our agreement must be applied to every single delivery unit. The agreement is crystal clear; no units should dep

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.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. 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. 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. 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