Royal Mail and the CWU have agreed to hold discussions at ACAS on the dispute over pay.
Royal Mail said the union had also promised to suspend all moves towards possible further official strike action over the dispute.
A spokesman said he was very sorry for the inconvenience customers had suffered to their mail services through unofficial strike action by up to 10,000 union members in London.
Read MorePostwatch, the postal services watchdog, has called on Royal Mail and the
Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) to regain control of industrial relations in and around London.
There has been a series of supposedly unrelated and unofficial walkouts that have severely disrupted postal services in the capital, since 17 October. Customers do not know whether they can use the post or when their mail will be delivered. Londoners are not receiving a Universal Postal Service.
Read MoreUnofficial strikes by postal workers in London spread today, threatening delays to mail collections and deliveries.
Thousands of postmen and women were taking industrial action across the capital, with many mounting picket lines outside mail centres.
The dispute started when a driver was suspended but has spread as managers tried to move mail to other centres.
Read MoreNew board of directors include:
John Hogan – managing director, UK and Ireland
Stephen Day – finance director, UK and Ireland
Bernard McCarthy – director and general manager, DHL Express Ireland
Clare Edmondson – HR director of DHL Express UK & Ireland
Simon Veale – sales & marketing director of DHL Express UK & Ireland
Tony Eccleston – information systems (IS) director of DHL Express UK & Ireland
Steve Allen – freight and logistics director for DHL Express UK & Ireland
Greg Michael – integration director for DHL Express UK & Ireland
DHL will operate a short-haul freighter service between London and key European destinations for British Airways World Cargo, BA announced. The daily 757 service, will boost by 50% the number of containers and pallets that BA can fly from continental Europe to London, said BA spokesman James Healy. DHL previously operated an Airbus freighter nightly from its hub in Brussels to London’s Heathrow Airport. That freighter connected with DHL feeder flights around the continent.
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