I unfortunately recently had a damaged book arrive from one of the UK booksellers for Tom Felton's "Beyond the Wand" yesterday. I just started the research process and discovered something unusual. When visiting the bookseller's website it was brought to my attention there have been ongoing strikes with the UK mail, which I believe most of us are and have been unaware of, especially since a lot of biographies and entertainment-related titles are scheduled for the next few months. I know I have items I pre-ordered 3-12+ months myself that are supposed to arrive in the coming weeks.

In case anyone is unaware, there have been a bunch of strikes with the Royal Mail. Per this store's website, they've mentioned the following:

"The current planned postal strike dates are:

October: 20th & 25th. November: 2nd, 4th, 8th, 10th, 16th, 23rd, 28th, 30th."

For anyone interested, here are updates from the Royal Mail since it's the holidays
https://www.royalmail.com/latest-news