About 25,000 of London's postmen and women took part in the strike
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Postal workers in London look set to go ahead with a second strike despite staff receiving a pay rise and an increase in London weighting.
The Royal Mail said a 3% increase will be paid in the next few days to postmen and women, with an extra 11.5% available when productivity targets are met.
Staff in London will also receive a £300-a-year rise in the London weighting allowance but this falls short of the £4,000-a-year demanded by the Communication Workers Union (CWU).
The union is expected to announce that its members will join thousands of council workers taking part in their own one-day strike over London weighting on 16 October.
Fair offer
About 25,000 of London's postmen and women took part in a 24-hour strike on 1 October which caused huge disruption and cost Royal Mail up to £10m.
The £300 from Royal Mail will increase Outer London weighting to £2,667 and Inner London weighting to £3,784.
But the union wants a flat-rate rise in the London allowance to £4,000 for each postal worker.
A Royal Mail spokesman said further strikes would not improve the offer, which the company believed was fair.
Postal workers voted against a national strike by a margin of less than 2,000 votes last month, but workers in London backed industrial action over allowances.
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