More than 80,000 households across Shropshire and Staffordshire hit by delays to Royal Mail deliveries - these are the areas affected
More than 80,000 households across Shropshire and Staffordshire have been experiencing delays with postal deliveries this week, according to Royal Mail.
The company identified 13 postcode areas which are affected by the delays, and are not at the moment receiving a six-day-a-week service.
A total of 38,640 households served by the Shrewsbury delivery office are experiencing delays, 12,824 served by the Tweedale centre, in Telford, and 30,236 served by the Lichfield delivery office.
Areas affected include the SY1 postcode area, which covers central Shrewsbury, SY2 which covers east Shrewsbury, Abbey Foregate and Uffington, and SY3 which covers south and west Shrewsbury, Bayston Hill, Velle Vue, and Frankwell.
The SY4 area ,which includes Baschurch, Shawbury and Wem, and SY5, which covers Dorrington, Pontesbury and Westbury, has also seen services disrupted.
In Telford, the TF3 area, which covers the shopping centre, Randlay, Hollinswood, Stirchley, Brookside, and Stafford Park, TF4 which includes Dawley, Malinslee, Lawley, and Horsehay, and TF7 which covers Madley, Woodside, Sutton Hill and Halesfield are also affected, along with TF8 which covers the Ironbridge Gorge, and TF12 which serves 2,324 households in Broseley.
In Staffordshire, 11,000 households in the Lichfield WS13 postcode area are affected, as well as 12,201 in the WS7 Burntwood area.
The WS14 postal area, which includes Shenstone, Botany Bay, Muckley Corner, Wall, Weeford, Swinfen, Shenstone Woodend, and part of Lichfield, 7,035 properties are affected.
Royal Mail said in those circumstances, deliveries would be rotated to minimise the delay to individual customers.
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