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Delivery date estimator

Estimate an arrival date from your dispatch date, accounting for collection cut-offs, weekends, public holidays in both countries and customs clearance time.

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When was it ordered?

After the collection cut-off, dispatch moves to the next working day.

days

Pick, pack and hand over.

days

Peak season, weather, a supplier you do not trust.

Service and lane

Door-to-door with customs clearance included in the service.

Expected delivery
Mon, 24 Aug 2026

Between Fri, 21 Aug 2026 and Tue, 25 Aug 2026

Dispatch date
Wed, 19 Aug 2026
Total days
6 calendar
2–4 in transit
  • 1 handling day before collection.
  • 1 day allowed for customs clearance on a cross-border shipment.
Cross-border estimates assume paperwork is correct and duties are paid on presentation. Held shipments are almost always a documentation problem, not a transport one.

National public holidays only, covering 2026-2027. Moon-dependent dates are marked approximate. Regional holidays and carrier-specific shutdowns are not included — confirm with your carrier before promising a date around a holiday.

Questions people ask about this

Why does my parcel take longer than the quoted transit time?

Quoted transit times start when the carrier collects, not when you click buy. Add your own handling time, then the collection cut-off — an order placed at 6pm usually ships the next day — then weekends and holidays in both countries, then customs. Those four together commonly double a two-day quote.

Do carriers deliver on weekends?

Some do and some do not, and it varies by service within one carrier. Express services generally do not move freight on Sundays. This calculator lets you set Saturday and Sunday operation per service rather than assuming.

How long does customs clearance take?

Hours if the paperwork is right, days if it is not. Clearance is the most variable part of an international transit, and the delays are nearly always documentation problems — a missing value, a vague description, a wrong commodity code — rather than anything to do with transport.

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Where these numbers come from

This calculator uses arithmetic rather than published rates — every figure comes from the values you enter. See the methodology page for the formulas behind it.

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