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Postal workers escalated their unofficial strike action against Royal Mail today, with scores of new offices in different parts of Britain walking out. Aggressive office managers demanding changes to usual working practices provoked many of the walkouts.

Royal Mail boss Adam "Cobblers" Crozier is known for his mocking, loutish way of speaking, but by slurring post workers for their supposed "Spanish practices", he has upset more people than usual.

The stakes in the dispute between Royal Mail and the CWU union grew today as unofficial strike action in Royal Mail continued to spread. Offices in south east London joined striking colleagues in east and south west London, and there is now a real possibility that all offices and mail centres in London will join the action within the next 24 hours.

The last day of the national postal strikes saw a fantastic spontaneous march by 100 postal workers through the centre of Ipswich chanting "What do we want? Fair pay!When do we want it? Now!". This was followed by a mass meeting of 300 posties to discuss how to take the campaign forward in Ipswich.

Hundreds of postal workers at the Nine Elms mail centre in southwest London have today walked out in an unofficial dispute after their management told them that overtime at the office would cease.

Postal workers walked out unofficially this morning, just hours after many had returned to work following an official 48-hour strike.

Across the country a series of unofficial walkouts have hit Royal Mail. Post workers in Liverpool, Glasgow, East London and Streatham have all taken unofficial action on Wednesday morning as the latest official strikes came to an end.

It’s just before six in the morning and around 50 striking postal workers have gathered for a gate meeting outside their delivery office in Loughton – the heart of the Essex stockbroker belt of outer east London.

Managers at the Streatham delivery office in south west London are responding to the union’s "do the job properly" campaign by trying to force workers to break health and safety agreements.

There was speculation that management and the CWU union may be approaching an agreement to end the dispute as Socialist Worker went to press.

An argument is raging about the future of the relationship between the postal workers’ CWU union and the Labour Party.

This week postal workers have dealt Royal Mail bosses a massive blow with our two 48-hour strikes. The action was extremely solid across the country and management’s prediction that this strike would be the end of the union is now looking very foolish.