POLITICIANS must intervene to stop a deepening crisis at Royal Mail putting May’s Holyrood elections “at risk,” according to the CWU today.The union, which represents more than 100,000 postal workers across Britain, sounded the alarm as the service, privatised in 2013, grapples with backlogs in letter delivery and chronic staff shortages.More than a fifth of new starts in Scotland leave the business within 90 days, the highest rate in Britain, which rises to 23 per cent after a year.

POLITICIANS must intervene to stop a deepening crisis at Royal Mail putting May’s Holyrood elections “at risk,” according to the CWU today.

The union, which represents more than 100,000 postal workers across Britain, sounded the alarm as the service, privatised in 2013, grapples with backlogs in letter delivery and chronic staff shortages.

More than a fifth of new starts in Scotland leave the business within 90 days, the highest rate in Britain, which rises to 23 per cent after a year.

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