Royal Mail Last Posting Dates for Christmas 2014
You may not be planning to do any Christmas shopping for another few weeks but, if you intend to post your parcel, remember to do it before Royal Mail’s final posting dates. This won’t be as much of an issue if all of your packages will be winging their way to recipients in the UK, but some of the overseas posting dates are earlier than you may think. In fact, some of the international surface mail dates have already passed…
Don’t let the perfect present go to waste by not arriving on time; make a note of these last posting dates now!
| International Services | |
| International Economy (formerly known as Surface Mail) | |
| Monday 29 September | Africa (except South Africa), Asia, Australia, Caribbean, Central & South America, New Zealand |
| Tuesday 30 September | Far and Middle East (except Hong Kong and Singapore) |
| Tuesday 14 October | Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Africa, USA |
| Tuesday 4 November | Cyprus, Eastern Europe, Greece, Iceland, Malta, Turkey |
| Tuesday 18 November | Western Europe |
| International Standard (formerly Airmail) and all International Tracking and Signature Services (formerly Airsure® and International Signed For®) | |
| Wednesday 3 December | Asia, Far East (including Japan), New Zealand |
| Thursday 4 December | Australia |
| Friday 5 December | Africa, Caribbean, Central & South America, Middle East |
| Monday 8 December | Cyprus, Eastern Europe, Greece |
| Tuesday 9 December | Canada, Poland |
| Friday 12 December | USA |
| Saturday 13 December | Western Europe (excluding Greece, Poland) |
| International Standard HM Forces Mail – British Forces Post Office® (BFPO) | |
| Friday 28 November | Operational BFPOs |
| Friday 12 December | Static BFPOs |
| UK Services | |
| UK Inland Services | |
| Thursday 18 December | 2nd Class and Royal Mail Signed For® |
| Saturday 20 December | 1st Class and Royal Mail Signed For® |
| Tuesday 23 December | Royal Mail Special Delivery Guaranteed® |
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If you intend to use another postal service, the last dates for Parcelforce can be found here, DPD is here and other courier companies are sure to publish their deadlines on their own websites very shortly.
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