10,000 jobs at risk as Royal Mail records massive losses

The company has blamed the ongoing strikes by workers and warned that 6,000 redundancies might be needed

Steven Brown

10,000 jobs are at risk at Royal Mail across the UK as the firm announces hundreds of millions in losses.

Unions say that the financial losses are down to mismanagement of the company.

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