Christmas Posting Deadlines 2022

Christmas is fast approaching, and when you’re selling online it’s important to know when you can still post to your customers and expect their items to be delivered before Christmas. We’ve compiled a list of all the last posting dates so you can see what delivery options you have left, starting with UK last posting dates, and then a complete day-by-day list of Christmas post deadlines:

UK Last Posting Dates

Royal Mail
Monday 12th December: 2nd Class, 2nd Class Signed For & Royal Mail 48®

Wednesday 16st December: 1st Class, 1st Class Signed For, Royal Mail 24® & Royal Mail Tracked 48®

Thursday 19th December: Royal Mail Tracked 24®

Evri

20th December: Last day for courier collections

21st December (Midday): Last day for standard parcels from a ParcelShop

22nd December (Midday): Last day for next-day parcels from a ParcelShop

DPD

23rd December: Normal Service

24th December: Deliveries Only

25th - 28th December: Closed

Parcel Force

Wednesday 21st December: Express48, Express48large
Thursday 22nd December: express9, express10, expressAM, expressPM, express24

DHL
Tuesday 22nd December: Europe EU, United Kingdom

Christmas Post Deadlines

25th November

• Royal Mail International Economy: Cyprus, Eastern Europe, Greece, Iceland, Malta, Turkey

28th November

• Royal Mail International Economy: Western Europe

1st December

• Royal Mail International Standard & International tracked: Australia and New Zealand

2nd December

• Royal Mail International Standard & International tracked: China (People's Republic)

5th December

• Royal Mail International Standard & International tracked: All remaining Caribbean destinations

7th December

• Royal Mail International Standard & International tracked: Africa, Asia (except China, People's Republic), Central and South America, Far and Middle East

8th December

• Royal Mail International Standard & International tracked: Cyprus and Malta

9th December

• Royal Mail International Standard & International tracked: Greece, Eastern Europe (except Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia) and Turkey

10th December

• Royal Mail International Standard & International tracked: Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Italy, Poland, Sweden, USA

12th December

• Royal Mail International Standard & International tracked: Austria, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland

14th December

• Royal Mail International Standard & International tracked: Belgium, France, Luxembourg

16th December

• Royal Mail Bulk Mail Economy

19th December

• Royal Mail: 2nd Class, 2nd Class Signed For, 48®

20th December

• Evri: Last day for courier collections

21st December

• Royal Mail: 1st Class, 1st Class Signed For, 24®, Tracked 48®
• Parcelforce: Express48, Express48large
  
• Evri: Last day for standard parcels from a ParcelShop

22nd December

• Royal Mail: Special Delivery Guaranteed^®, Tracked 24^®
• Parcelforce: Express9, Express10, ExpressAM, ExpressPM, Express24
  
• Evri: Last day for next-day parcels from a ParcelShop
• DHL: Europe EU, United Kingdom

23rd December

• Royal Mail: Special Delivery Guaranteed^® with Saturday Guarantee 

For a full list of DPD Air Classic and DPD Air Express Christmas posting deadlines take a look here.