Turnaround times for postal PCR?

[beechie12]

I have covid I'm pretty sure. LFTs positive and symptoms. I need a PCR for work. I felt too sick to drive to do a PCR test so ordered and did a home PCR one Tuesday, posted around 2pm...still no word. Anyone know typical turnaround time?

Most recieve the result within 48 hours.

I ordered a pcr by post Monday it came Tue I posted it @ 15.00 Tue and got the result wed 20.30

Did you track it so you could see when it arrived at the lab? All of the mine have given a result within about 8 hours of being received.

Oh I didn't know you could track it. Will go do that now. Thanks.

Saturday am - Son 1 and me tested and posted.
Mon pm - Son 2 tested and posted.
Tue am - son 2 positive result.
Tue 9pm - son 1 positive, me negative.

I posted mine back last Sat at 12, results were back before I woke up on Sunday morning. Hope yours are back soon.

Update: I rang customer care and it turned out I never registered the pack when I got it so the guy registered me over the phone....just in case anyone else doesn't read instructions like me.

Mine took a week from ordering and 5 days from posting back. By which time I was better. My partner's test took a day longer than that.