Last Recommended Christmas Postage Dates for UK Royal Mail – 2011
If you have cards or presents to send either within the United Kingdom or further afield, these are the 2011 postage dates you need to know to for a pre-Christmas delivery using the Royal Mail.
These dates can never be 100% guaranteed so we recommend to not leave your Christmas posting to the last minute, where possible!
Don’t forget to also check out our list of all the major retailers’ last Christmas posting dates.
Last recommended posting services | Service |
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UK | |
Wed 14th December | Standard Parcels |
Sat 17th December | Second Class and Recorded Signed For™ |
Tue 20th December | First Class and Recorded Signed For™ |
Wed 21st December | Parcelforce express 48 |
Thu 22nd December | Parcelforce express 24 |
Special Delivery™ | |
Thu 22nd December | Special Delivery™ |
Fri 23rd December | Special Delivery™ with Saturday Guarantee |
International Surface Mail | |
Fri 30th September | Non-European destinations except Middle East, South Africa, Far East, USA and Canada |
Tue 4th October | Middle and Far East (except Hong Kong and Singapore) |
Tue 18th October | South Africa, Hong Kong, Singapore, the USA and Canada |
Tue 8th November | Eastern Europe, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Malta and Iceland |
Tue 22nd November | Western Europe |
International Airmail | |
Mon 5th December | South & Central America, Caribbean, Africa, Middle East, Asia, Far East (including Japan), Australia and New Zealand |
Fri 9th December | Eastern Europe, USA and Canada |
Mon 12th December | Western Europe |
British Forces Post Office (BFPO) | |
Fri 2nd December | Airmail to Operational BFPOs |
Thu 15th December | Airmail to Static BFPOs |
Inland Standard Tariff Mail and Mail Order Return Parcels | |
Wed 14th December | Standard Parcels |
Sat 17th December | Second Class and Recorded Signed For™ |
Tue 20th December | First Class and Recorded Signed For™ |
Thu 22th December | Special Delivery™ |
Fri 23rd December | Special Delivery™ Saturday Guaranteed |
Royal Mail Tracked® | |
Mon 19th December | RM Tracked |
Tue 20th December | RM Tracked High Volume |
Wed 21st December | RM Tracked Next Day |
PacketPost/Packetsort | |
Sat 17th December | Second Class |
Tue 20th December | First Class |
Inland Presorted Traffic | |
Thu 15th December | Mailsort 3 |
Sat 17th December | Mailsort 2, Presstream 2, Walksort 2 and Mail Order Return Parcels |
Tue 20th December | Mailsort 1, Presstream 1 and Walksort 1 |
Hi I just wanted to know what are the last dates on which I can post Christmas cards to the PRC and to Taiwan. The website seems to deal with parcels generally, or cards to destinations nearer the UK.
Please give me a quick email on this. Cheers Milo
Hi Milo,
I reckon that’s covered by the Far East, so for airmail, you’ll need to send your Christmas cards by Monday 5th December – best get your skates on!
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