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During a week of official function strikes, a spate of unofficial post strikes broke out across Britain last week.

The fourth solid postal strike brought services to a halt across the country last week. Socialist Worker received reports from the picket lines.

Disputes are growing in London over management provocations in delivery offices.

Hartlepool delivery office walked out yesterday after management intimidation of a worker.

Future days of strike action by the different functions in Royal Mail are as follows:

Post workers in Glasgow and the west of Scotland have voted to end their unofficial action and return to work. More than 700 postal workers attended a two hour mass meeting in Glasgow. They debated the way forward for their dispute as well as putting questions to CWU union officials and voting at the end of the meeting by a proportion of around five to two to return to work. No agreement has been reached with management about the terms of returning to work.

A national demonstration and rally in support of the Royal Mail dispute will be held on Tuesday 21 August.

Unofficial post strikes at Glasgow and Newcastle have ended after mass meetings there voted to return to work. A lunchtime mass meeting in Glasgow today saw a close vote to end the stoppage.

Unofficial walkouts are adding to the scale of the ongoing strike action by postal workers across the country.

A series of unofficial walkouts have demonstrated the feeling to hit back at management in the post.

Cambridge Around 30 trade unionists attended a lively picket line in Cambridge. The CWU members had whistles, megaphones and music in a solid strike. Management tried to bully and harrass those on the picket line by telling them to stop whistling and shouting 'scab' at the few mainly managers who were crossing the picket line and breaking the strike. The picket held firm and workers told them 'You may manage us in there, but this is our picket line and we will not be told what to do'. They soon scurried away and the noise continued.

Hundreds of angry post workers walked out of their delivery offices in Glasgow unofficially as a protest against bullying management today.