LAST POSTAGE DATES 2013 - CHRISTMAS!!!

[Naughtius Maximus]

FYI Last christmas postage for parcels sent from UK is: http://www.royalmail.com/greetings

Non tracked:

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Monday 30 September Africa, Asia, Australia, Caribbean, Central & South America,
New Zealand
Tuesday 1 October Far and Middle East (except Hong Kong and Singapore)
Tuesday 15 October Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Africa, USA
Tuesday 5 November Cyprus, Eastern Europe, Greece, Iceland, Malta, Turkey
Tuesday 19 November Western Europe

Tracked:

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Wednesday 4 December Asia, Far East (including Japan), New Zealand
Thursday 5 December Australia
Friday 6 December Africa, Caribbean, Central & South America, Middle East
Monday 9 December Cyprus, Eastern Europe
Tuesday 10 December Canada, France, Greece, Poland
Friday 13 December USA
Saturday 14 December Western Europe (excluding France, Greece, Poland)

It's worth keeping the above mind when ordering ANYTHING from the UK up until new year (remember this is royal mail just trying to stop people posting all last minute)

Feel free to post your countries last posting dates so its all in one area

David

 

[jammyone]

Very useful info, cheers

 

[SimonLDT]

Some of those dates are ridiculous. Are they really saying it can take months for parcels posted in Sept/Oct to reach certain destinations?

 

[karl01]

Some of those dates are ridiculous. Are they really saying it can take months for parcels posted in Sept/Oct to reach certain destinations?

They are over estimating them dates on non tracked even at busy times at christmas its never that long normally a extra week or so

 

[SaberTooth]

kinda off topic but what do u guys recommend as the best tracked service to usa?

 

[SimonLDT]

Unless you're sending something worth a lot (hundreds $) the only real cheaper priced methods are either Airsure or International Tracked and it depends on what tracking you require. International tracked is scanned at more points and is easier to pinpoint on tracking but there is no confirmation of delivery. Airsure is only tracked in a few places but there is confirmation of delivery.

After that, its only the expensive options such as Parcelforce, Fedex, UPS, etc which for a few steels is not worth it considering the price difference, imo.