I don't suppose there will be much point in sending any crosswords off next weekend as there will be no post until mid week. The papers might wake up & extend the closing date but I doubt it.
My local box was collected this lunchtime - I saw it happen! I asked the collector whether the strike is finished or not and he informed me that actually there are two strikes. One was from Thursday to Saturday (today) and the other from Monday to Wednesday, but any boxes which normally have a Sunday collection (there are none near where I live unfortunately) will be collected tomorrow.