The latest 48hr strike by Royal Mail staff ended this morning, and we've just posted out several large sackfuls of mail. Unfortunately, there is a backlog of mail in the Royal Mail system to clear so all usual delivery timescales are not being met.

The bad news is that the Royal Mail staff have called a series of rolling strikes for the whole of next week, which is going to cause chaos in the mail system. For more information read the Royal Mail update here..

http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/content1?catId=1000002&mediaId=51600692

This will definitely affect mailing of Issue 4 of Ocean Paddler, and we apologise for any delay, but it's out of our control. There's a lot of talk in the UK media about small businesses switching to other mail providers as a result of the strike, and I think it's something that we need to start looking into.