Postal workers took fresh wildcat strike action on Thursday, causing further delays to mail deliveries.
Staff in Liverpool and parts of London took unofficial action in a continuing row over new shift patterns.
An official 48-hour strike ended at 3am on Wednesday but there were spontaneous walkouts at 24 delivery offices after a new row broke out when workers were told their shift times had been changed.
Workers at offices in Liverpool, east London and Nine Elms, central London, went out on unofficial strike again on Thursday.
The Communication Workers Union has called a series of official strikes from next Monday in its long running dispute with the Royal Mail over pay, jobs and pensions.
The Prime Minister on Wednesday told the workers there was "no justification" for the dispute continuing and said they should get back to work.
His comments were criticised by the TUC which said they would not help resolve the dispute.
The Royal Mail said unofficial industrial action was taking place in about 30 delivery offices in parts of London and Liverpool.
A spokesman said workers in the rest of the country's 1,500 delivery offices were working normally.
October 11 2007
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