Postal workers in east Oxford and Abingdon have voted for more strike action.

Staff are angry after four workers lost their appeals against dismissal for "wilful delay of the mail" and agreed in a ballot to take action in support of their colleagues.

The cases involve a postman in Abingdon who was sacked for failing to deliver a test letter and a driver at the mail centre at Cowley who left a mail sack behind because it was too full.

The other two workers, postmen working in east Oxford, were sacked because they did not make second deliveries.

The men were already working overtime doing other rounds and claim a manager said they could leave the second deliveries behind.

Communication Workers Union spokesman Pete Boswell said union members at the offices would now decide what action to take.

Mr Boswell said: "Postmen and women are not militant left-wingers. People don't vote for strike action unless they are pretty sure there has been an injustice.

"If they thought these people were guilty, they wouldn't vote for it."

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