The country's busiest Post Offices are being hit by strike action today though many remain open for business.
Workers in so-called Crown offices, the larger branches usually sited on high streets, are involved in the walkout - the fourth round of action in a bitter row over jobs, pay and branch closures.
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) is fighting plans to franchise 70 of the Crown branches and close some others, saying hundreds of jobs will be affected.
The dispute also involves pay, with the CWU saying its members have not received a wage rise for over two years.
The Post Office says the Crown offices are losing £40m a year and has accused the union of refusing to accept economic realities.
But the union said it believes the company is trying to meet Government targets by "drastic" cost-cutting.
Dave Ward, CWU deputy general secretary, said: "This Government promised no programme of post office closures, but these plans would cut 20% of the Crown network.
"The pay offer is nothing like what the Post Office is trying to make out. It's conditional on accepting 76 Crown Post Office closures and over 800 job losses.
"The second and third lump sums are dependent on unachievable targets so are very unlikely to ever get paid.
"Even if they are paid, they would be significantly less than the publicised figure because many workers are part-time and hundreds would have lost their jobs."
The Post Office said over 240 Crown branches remained open despite the industrial action.
Kevin Gilliland, Network and Sales Director at the Post Office said: "We regret any inconvenience that may be caused to customers by this strike action.
"We are working hard to minimise inconvenience and over 240 of our 370 Crown branches remain open, while the remainder of our 11,800 branches are unaffected.
"Our plans are crucial to keeping Post Office branches on high streets across the UK and halting the Crown network's £40m a year loss of public money.
"Every hour of strike action is causing disruption for our customers and costing our people money in the face of an offer of a cash payment of up to £1,400 which can be in pay packets as soon as this action ends."
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