Missed Royal Mail's last posting date 1st class: WWYD?

[Wauden]

For various reasons, we haven't posted our cards yet or even written them and the last recommended date has gone.
It would take three hours or so but we don't have time tonight for the 9am collection anyway so the next collection would be Tuesday 9am. We have the 1st class stamps.

Would you take a risk and post them tomorrow or would you email an image instead?

I'm where you were last year, mum been ill since November - very stressed, just keeping head above water with work/life. I've abandoned it and I think it may set the standard from now on.

I’m sending mine on Monday. I did a first batch last week, but ran out of cards and we’ve all been ill this week so I’ve only just got round to it. They will get there eventually. I send to older relatives, taking up the mantle from my mum now my parents have gone.

Post them anyway. They may get there on time. If they're a bit late, then most people keep their cards up into January anyway.

I haven’t sent cards for about 8 years. They’re waning in popularity, are terrible for the environment, and cost more to post than they’re actually worth. Does anyone you’re sending a card to actually need one?

I agree, just post them. I get most of my cards from overseas, and they often don't arrive until after Christmas - it's still nice to receive them.

I would just post them now and they get there when they get there. Maybe cut back on the number and send an email to everyone else, or do a FB post or whatever.

I stopped sending cards about 10 years ago now and I only send one that goes to Scotland, we talk by email anyway so not too worried when it gets there.

I'd post and hope for the best. Royal Mail usually pull out all the stops to get things to people on time but even without any strikes, there is often the odd card that arrives late. Nobody minds and it's better to make the effort than not.

Do people still send Christmas cards? I must have been living under a rock

I was told the second class date was tomorrow!

Send them and risk it, the post is all over the place..
I have sent first class on 3rd to a few people and they are still not there but then I sent some on 12th and they got there the next day!!
They are on strike Friday and Saturday so they still have the 3 days to arrive, if not people will understand with the strikes.

That was last Monday!

They brought last recommended dates forward to allow for strike days.

2nd class date was the 12th

Pmsl the bloke in the post office was way off! Well mine are going out tomorrow abd I guess they’ll arrive when they arrive.

Post them anyway. Or save them for next year! Are the stamps the new ones, with the barcodes? They'll keep too.

🎵On the fourth day of Christmas my postman delivered to me.... all the Christmas cards that missed the deadline.

Christmas only starts on Christmas day. I'd still be pleased to receive a card any time between Christmas and New Year.

I've also missed the deadline OP and am planning to stick the cards in the postbox whenever I can manager to.

I would send anyhow.

Sometimes cards posted on time arrive late, sometimes those posted late just fly through and arrive on time.

As long as they're there before the end of Christmas on Twelfth Night, it's worth it

Seems like we are not the only ones! 🤓 I think that we should write them tomorrow and post them, hopefully in a post office that collects in the afternoon, rather in for the next local post box where collection won't be until Tuesday 9am.
Its a good point that Christmas ends at Epiphany. 🎅
Also, I could blame any lateness on the backlog. ⏲

All guarantees are suspended due to the strikes.

There is a high chance they wouldn’t have been delivered. I’d just post them anyway and blame it on that.

I wouldn't bother with them at all, but then I gave up sending Christmas cards some years ago and have not missed them at all. In fact, it has been very liberating.

I think it is a slowly dying tradition. I wonder if the postal strikes this year might finally knock it on the head for many.

I don’t feel this way at all. I keep them up until January 6th, and I’m happy to receive a seasonal greeting at any time.

It’s the risk you take. Personally, I really wouldn’t bother and I certainly would not send cards with cash in right now via RM.
The backlog that RM will have to process, I really doubt that they will clear through the backlog in 6 days. You could send an e-card via email if you really wanted to. Failing that, send a message. I know some people prefer sending/receiving a card but it just isn’t practical this year.
Also, the cost of actual cards and stamps have increased drastically- soon it will be that no one sends cards…

I love sending Christmas cards. It’s one of the things that gets me into the Christmas spirit, I sit down a weekend late in November with a film, and happily wrote them all - usually around 30-40.

have done for years and years. I know it’s not about sending to receive, but I do always get a bit hurt each year when friends ring me and say how lovely it was to receive a card, “so nice to get something through the post” but then never reciprocate. Ah well. I do it because I think it’s lovely to get post. But would be nice if sometimes people sent them back!

I posted my cards third week of November. We’ve had 4 in return through the post!! So that’s the end of that tradition. I couldn’t believe it cost 95p per stamp!! I’m only going to send cards to those 4 next year (older relatives).

I’d prefer a text to an email. I get endless corporate e-cards and they’re a bit pointless, like automated junk mail.

I always receive a few cards late. Never really thought much of it.

just send them when they are ready.