People across south Essex continue to be hit with postal delays.

Royal Mail’s website is still showing its Southend delivery office is experiencing disruption due to staffing issues.

It first warned of delays last Monday and an update today shows there are still a number of postcode areas affected.

Bosses have said a mix of illness and Covid means they cannot commit to delivering to certain postcodes in the county everyday.

The postcodes impacted by issues are:

• SS0 - Westcliff-on-Sea, Chalkwell

• SS1 - Southend-on-Sea, Thorpe Bay

• SS2 - Southend-on-Sea, Prittlewell, Southchurch, London Southend Airport

• SS3 - Shoeburyness, Great Wakering, Little Wakering, Barling

• SS4 - Rochford, Ashingdon, Canewdon, Stambridge, Paglesham

• SS9 - Eastwood, Leigh-on-Sea

• SS22 – Southend, Essex Thames Gateway

A spokesman said: "We aim to deliver to all addresses we have mail for, six days a week.

"In a small number of local offices this may temporarily not be possible due to local issues such as COVID-related self isolation, high levels of sick absence, resourcing, or other local factors.

"In those cases we will rotate deliveries to minimise the delay to individual customers.

"We also provide targeted support to those offices to address their challenges and restore our service to the high standard our customers would normally receive.

"We're sorry for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding.

"We will regularly update customers on the offices most impacted."