Loading... Please wait...Posted on 17th Dec 2011 @ 5:20 PM
To help you work out which service you need to use to get your order to you before Christmas we've put together some information on the different services available and the last dates we can use them.
Royal Mail
Our last Royal Mail Collection before Christmas is 9am on Friday 23rd December 2011 for all you last minute shoppers but please bear in mind that the only service guranteed to arrive before Christmas if you order on Thursday 22nd or Friday 23rd is Special Delivery with Saturday Guarantee which costs from £9.24 up to over £30 so we'd recommend you order before then if possible.
We've produced a full table of service cut off times for Royal Mail below.
Couriers
We will also be dispatching our last courier items at 9am Friday 23rd December 2011, we'll try and offer a range of competitive services for you to chose from but one of our couriers (CityLink) has already stopped accepting new deliveries until the new year due to the large volume of parcels going thought their network.
As we use a wide range of couriers, especially at this time of year, some services that are available may not be shown on our site.
If you have any questions, or if you need an urgent last minute Christmas delivery anywhere in the world, please call our team on 08000 588 466 or e-mail us at shop@papercrafts.tv and we'll do all we can to help you.
| Last recommended posting services | Service |
|---|---|
| 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 express48 |
| Thu 22nd December | Parcelforce express24 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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