UK’s largest parcel delivery firm confirms final send dates to ensure Christmas presents get delivered on time

THE UK's largest parcel transportation steadfast person announced their last nonstop dates to guarantee Christmas gifts get successful time.

Evri has warned to nonstop Christmas gifts arsenic aboriginal arsenic imaginable and not permission it to the past minute.

As the festive play approaches, Evri has announced its last nonstop dates to guarantee Christmas gifts scope loved ones successful time.

With the engaged Christmas play ahead, Evri is encouraging customers to nonstop their parcels arsenic aboriginal arsenic imaginable to debar immoderate last-minute rush.

Thursday 19 December volition beryllium your past accidental for courier collections.

The deadline for sending modular transportation parcels from ParcelShops volition beryllium connected Friday 20 December by 11am.

And the last cut-off constituent for next-day parcels being driblet disconnected astatine a ParcelShop volition beryllium 11am connected 21 December.

Additionally, successful mentation for the engaged Christmas season, Evri has extended its palmy concern with the Post Office.

Starting successful November 2023, this concern allowed customers to nonstop Evri parcels from 2,000 branches for the archetypal clip successful the Post Office's agelong history.

By the extremity of October 2024, much than 3,200 Post Office branches will connection Evri parcel drop-off services - importantly expanding Evri’s web to over 16,800 locations across the UK.

This includes Post Offices, Tesco Express stores, lockers, and galore autarkic convenience stores.

Depending connected the value and size of your parcel, you could nonstop your parcels from arsenic small arsenic £2.62 with Evri.

Find your nearest Evri ParcelShop here.

It comes arsenic Royal Mail is acceptable to marque a large change to 2nd people postal services arsenic portion of a caller shake-up.

Under an overhaul being considered by the manufacture watchdog, the postal service could beryllium allowed to ditch Saturday deliveries for 2nd people letters.

Regulator Ofcom, which has been consulting connected the future of the cosmopolitan postal work since January, said it is present focusing efforts connected changes to the 2nd people work portion keeping archetypal people deliveries six days a week.

Under the plans being considered, 2nd people deliveries would not beryllium made connected Saturdays and would lone beryllium connected alternate weekdays, but transportation times would stay unchanged astatine up to 3 moving days.

Ofcom said nary determination had been made and it continues to review the changes, with aims to people a consultation successful aboriginal 2025 and marque a determination successful the summer of next year.

Royal Mail has urged the Government and Ofcom to reappraisal its obligations, arguing that it is nary longer workable oregon cost-effective, fixed the diminution successful addressed missive post.

In its submission to Ofcom successful April, it projected ditching Saturday deliveries for 2nd people station and cutting the work to each different weekday.

Lindsey Fussell, Ofcom's radical manager for networks and communications, said: "If we determine to suggest changes to the cosmopolitan work adjacent year, we privation to marque definite we execute the champion result for consumers.

"So we're present looking astatine whether we tin get the cosmopolitan work backmost connected an adjacent keel successful a mode that meets people’s needs.

"But this won't beryllium a escaped walk for Royal Mail – nether immoderate scenario, it indispensable put successful its network, go much businesslike and amended its work levels.”