Royal Mail issues last posting dates for Christmas 2020 - post packages ‘early’

Australia and New Zealand – December 4
Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Central and South America, Far and Middle East – December 9
Canada, Cyprus and Malta – December 10
Greece, Eastern Europe (except Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia) and Turkey – December 11
Czech Republic, Finland, Italy, Poland, Sweden and USA – December 12
Austria, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain and Switzerland – December 16
Belgium, France, Ireland and Luxembourg – December 18

Royal Mail also recently issued advice for customers over the festive period.

With December usually being such a busy month for everyone, it is easy to fall into the tracks of scams and identifying them can be extremely hard.

One scam email circulating sees fraudsters purporting to be from Royal Mail, and that they have an undelivered letter for customers, and in order to receive it, they must pay £1.99 extra.