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Postal workers at the Burslem delivery office in Stoke-on-Trent have voted overwhelmingly for strike action in defence of 12 colleagues who have been victimised by Royal Mail for standing up to bullying management.

Postal workers in the CWU union have voted by approximately 2 to 1 to accept a deal recommended by their union leadership to end their dispute over pay and conditions.

Postal workers have only a few days remaining in which to vote on the deal negotiated by the leaders of the CWU union to end their dispute over pay, modern-isation and pensions.

Post workers in Coventry are furious at plans unveiled by Royal Mail to close their mail centre and cut hundreds of jobs.

Myself and thousands of other postal workers across Britain this week received ballot papers from our CWU union asking us if we are willing to accept a leadership-backed deal to end our long running dispute.

Activists are campaigning for a no vote in branches that have recommended to accept the deal, as well as in those that aim to reject it.

A growing revolt by postal workers is threatening to scupper the deal negotiated by their CWU union leadership to end the dispute with Royal Mail.

The key issue in my branch is the imposition of new working practices – for example, the longs and shorts (where we might be instructed to work only six hours on a Tuesday but up to nine hours on a Friday), and the 30 minutes of "flexible" time on a daily basis.

The vote by the CWU union's postal executive to accept and recommend Royal Mail's offer to the membership was not unanimous. Many of those in leading positions in the union recognise that the deal falls far short of what could have been achieved.

Postal workers in many parts of the country are still "doing the job properly". This means they start at agreed times, take their allotted breaks, do not use their private cars on deliveries and stick to the agreed bag weights.

A debate is raging among postal workers about a deal brokered between their CWU union and Royal Mail to end the dispute over pay, pensions and conditions.