This year, with uncertainty from CWU strikes, your best advice to ensure cards and gifts arrive on time is to post well in advance of the official Christmas last 2022 posting days. That’s not so easy if you are running a business as inevitably shoppers continue to purchase right up to the big day, so here are the last days that goods will arrive if there is no industrial actions disrupting the service:
Christmas 2022 Last Posting Days – Domestic Post & Parcels
Monday 19 December
Royal Mail 2nd Class & 2nd Class Signed For
Wednesday 21 December
Royal Mail 1st Class & 1st Class Signed For, Parcelforce Worldwide express48 and express48Large
Thursday 22 December
Royal Mail Special Delivery Guaranteed, Parcelforce Worldwide express24. expressAM
Friday 23 December
Royal Mail Special Delivery by 1pm with Saturday Guarantee
Royal Mail International Standard, Tracking, Signature services
Friday 7 October
British Virgin Islands, Dominica & Anguilla
Thursday 1 December
Australia and New Zealand
Friday 2 December
China (People’s Republic)
Monday 5 December
All remaining Caribbean destinations
Wednesday 7 December
Africa, Asia (except China, People’s Republic) Central and South America, Far and Middle East
Thursday 8 December
Cyprus and Malta
Friday 9 December
Greece, Eastern Europe (except Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia) and Turkey
Saturday 10 December
Czech Republic, Finland, Italy, Poland, Sweden, USA and Canada
Monday 12 December
Austria, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland
Wednesday 14 December
Belgium, France, Luxembourg
BFPO Last Posting Days
Monday 28 November
Operational HM Forces
Monday 5 December
Static HM Forces
