Monthly Archives: March 2014

Christmas Opening Hours, Last Postal Dates and Possible Service Disruption

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With the holidays approaching, please be aware of Royal Mails official suggested cut off times to ensure delivery by the Christmas Holidays.</p>
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<u><strong>International Services</strong></u></p>
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Wednesday 3 – December<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Asia, Far East (including Japan), New Zealand</div>
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Thursday 4 – December<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Australia</div>
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Friday 5 – December<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Africa, Caribbean, Central &amp; South America, Middle East</div>
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Monday 8 – December<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Cyprus, Eastern Europe, Greece</div>
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Tuesday 9 – December<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Canada, Poland</div>
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Friday 12 – December<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>USA</div>
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Saturday 13 – December<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Western Europe (excluding Greece, Poland) International Standard HM Forces Mail -British Forces Post Office® (BFPO)</div>
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Friday 28 November<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-&nbsp;Operational BFPOs</div>
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Friday 12 December<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-&nbsp;Static BFPOs</div>
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<u><strong>UK Inland Services</strong></u></div>
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Thursday 18 December<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>2nd Class and Royal Mail Signed For®</div>
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Saturday 20 December<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1st Class and Royal Mail Signed For®</div>
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Tuesday 23 December<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Royal Mail Special Delivery Guaranteed®</div>
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<u><strong>Our Opening Hours Over the Holidays</strong></u></div>
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Monday 22 December – Normal service</div>
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Tuesday 23 December<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Normal service</div>
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Christmas Eve Wednesday 24 December – CLOSED</div>
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Christmas Day Thursday 25 December – CLOSED</div>
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Boxing Day Friday 26 December – CLOSED</div>
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Saturday 27 December<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- CLOSED</div>
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Sunday 28 December<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- CLOSED</div>
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Monday 29 December<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Normal service</div>
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Tuesday 30 December<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Normal service</div>
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New Year’s Eve Wednesday 31 – CLOSED</div>
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New Year’s Day Thursday 1 January – CLOSED</div>
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Friday 2 January – Normal service</div>
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<u><strong>Possible Service Disruption</strong></u></div>
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We’re very excited to be expecting our fourth child some time around the 4th of January, but as we all know, well everyone that knows knows, that date can vary quite considerably. So we’re unable to give an exact date, but at some point orders will be delayed by approx 48-72 hours while we welcome our new baby boy into the world and get him settled. We’ve taken steps to make sure that someone will post an announcement on the site, forums and social media to let all customers know that there are delays with orders and hope that we will have your understanding during this special time.</div>
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We hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year. We can all go easy on the New Year resolutions I guess with smoking a thing of the past for the majority of us.</p>
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Go easy on the mince Pies though</p>
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Lots of love</p>
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Rob and Emma xx</p>

BSCiTS are off

Professor Michael Siegel announced this week that his plans to carry out research into an aspect of electronic cigarettes have been cancelled. The Behavioral Study of Cigarette and Tobacco Substitution (BSCiTS) study was due to compare the effectiveness of e-cigs with NRT on smoking behavior. In itself, the announcement was pretty much predicted – it was the manner of its delivery that is interesting.