It may be the end of the Summer with Autumn not officially starting until the 23rd of September, but Christmas will be here in no time at all and Royal Mail‘s last posting dates will be here even sooner. For some destinations, the last posting dates for Christmas 2018 are at the end of September for economy services and you’ll want to make sure that these dates are highlighted to your buyers on the platforms you sell on.
Last Posting Dates for Christmas 2018
International Economy |
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Date |
Destination |
| Friday 28 September | Australia, New Zealand and all other non-European destinations (except Canada, Far East, Middle East, South Africa, USA) |
| Saturday 29 September | Middle and Far East (except Hong Kong and Singapore) |
| Saturday 13 October | Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Africa, USA |
| Saturday 3 November | Cyprus, Eastern Europe, Greece, Iceland, Malta, Turkey |
| Saturday 17 November | Western Europe |
International Tracked and Signed services |
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Date |
Destination |
| Tuesday 4 December | Africa, Middle East |
| Friday 7 December | Asia, Cyprus, Far East, Eastern Europe (except Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia), Malta |
| Saturday 8 December | Caribbean, Central and South America |
| Monday 10 December | Australia, Greece, New Zealand, Turkey |
| Friday 14 December | Canada, Czech Republic, Italy, Poland, USA |
| Saturday 15 December | Finland, Sweden |
| Monday 17 December | Austria, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Portugal, Netherlands, Norway, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland |
| Tuesday 18 December | Belgium, France, Ireland, Luxembourg |
UK Services |
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Date |
Destination |
| Tuesday 18 December | 2nd Class, Royal Mail Signed For® 2nd Class and Royal Mail 48® |
| Thursday 20 December | Royal Mail Tracked 24® |
| Friday 21 December | 1st Class, Royal Mail Signed For® 1st Class and Royal Mail Tracked 48® |
| Saturday 22 December | Royal Mail Special Delivery Guaranteed® |
11 Responses
How come Tracked 24 is an earlier date than Tracked 48?
Am sure the normal RMG farce and mess will happen. The Black Friday fake sales event has killed October and November now totally, and everything is squashed into like 19 days when it finishes. We just went through the roof when the fake sales end, but it is over such a short window.
Then a bit of bad weather and suddenly RMG will collapse and 24 hour mail will take a week etc.
Looking forward to it, got busy from Friday 24th last year right through till switched off on the 19th December.
Probably send everything 1st class on Thursday 20th and close up till the 10th Jan 2019
Sent out nearly 4,000 parcels with RM last year and was very happy with the service.
I dont have any problems with RM delivering my mail and parcels at Christmas. They always arrive in tact and on time. Long may it continue.
Your only kidding yourself if you think someone does it better than royal mail.
If you post that much every day and other companies do it better ..why don’t you use them I wonder ??? The price maybe..you moan about it but still use it. Weird
You might be right about that but try and get those companies to deliver to the highlands and islands or deep rural northumberland or even the oil rigs ,they will take your money and lay the packages off with royal mail whom have no choice but to take them because of the universal service obligation in other words they cherry pick where its profitable and dump the rest on royal mail ,royal mail should refuse to take those items ,anyhow i have sold 821 items on ebay and have always used royal mail and i have 100% positive feedback so thats not bad now is it
@SAM…..that “bit of bad weather” you mention was bad enough to trap me on the a74 for 6 hours……there are parts of the country north of Watford you know.
This Christmas will really sort things out, with the shortage of HGV Drivers, with so many Eastern European Drivers now gone home or to other countries the Royal Mail and all the other companies who deliver mail and parcels will be in trouble trying to find extra HGV Drivers. This also applies to all the supermarkets and stores who employ extra drivers just for the Christmas period. The drivers CPC is also a major problem as the older and semi retired drivers are not interested in sitting in a classroom for 35 Hours to listen to boring lectures and most having to pay over £300 to get this ridiculous plastic card which no body ever asks to see. Most of these drivers who used to just cover at Christmas will have given up their licence because of this CPC qualification they need to drive. Another thing to blame the EU for.