All Post Offices are closed on Good Friday, April 3 and Easter Monday, April 6. Check the opening hours for your local Post Office.
Normal deliveries and collections should take place across most of the UK today. Please see the Royal Mail Deliveries section below. We're working hard to keep any delays to a minimum while keeping our people and customers safe. We're sorry for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience and understanding.
Please find below the key dates in 2020 for England, Scotland and Wales.
Delivery Schedule.
| Friday 10 April | Good Friday | Closed |
|---|
| Friday 25 December | Christmas Day | Closed |
| Saturday 26 December | Boxing Day | Closed |
| Monday 28 December | Boxing Day (substitute day) | Closed |
| Friday 1 January, 2021 | New Year's Day | Closed |
You can also call Royal Mail to find out the collection
times near you. Saturday collection
times are 7am to 1.30pm for all locations.
Post box collection times (Monday to Friday)
| Your location | Post box collection times |
|---|
| Areas with lots of businesses - known as commercial | 9am to 7:30pm |
But there will be a normal postal service on Saturday, April 11 - but not on Easter Sunday on April 12, as is usual every week, Birmingham Live reports. Royal Mail said: "We deliver and collect mail on most days of the year, including Saturdays.
"That terrible Friday has been called Good Friday because it led to the Resurrection of Jesus and his victory over death and sin and the celebration of Easter, the very pinnacle of Christian celebrations," the Huffington Post reported.
Good Friday is a Christian holiday commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus and his death at Calvary. It is observed during Holy Week as part of the Paschal Triduum on the Friday preceding Easter Sunday, and may coincide with the Jewish observance of Passover.
The date of Easter changes, because the Paschal full moon can fall on various days in different time zones. That's also why Easter and Christian holidays leading up to that day, such as Ash Wednesday, Palm Sunday and Good Friday, are referred to as “moveable feasts.”
Federal banks and post offices that are located in buildings that close for Good Friday and Easter will also be closed. Good Friday is also a holiday in Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
Boxing Day Observances
| Year | Weekday | Date |
|---|
| 2019 | Thu | Dec 26 |
| 2020 | Sat | Dec 26 |
| 2020 | Mon | Dec 28 |
| 2021 | Sun | Dec 26 |
Public LifeGuy Fawkes' Day is not a public holiday. Businesses, organizations and schools are open as usual. Public transport services run to their normal timetables. Some organizations, communities and municipalities may organize public bonfires or displays of fireworks on or around November 5.
**In 2020, as 12 July falls on a Sunday, the public holiday is given as the following Monday (13 July 2020). ***In 2020, as Boxing Day falls on a Saturday, the public holiday is given as the following Monday (28 December 2020).
If a
bank holiday is on a weekend, a 'substitute' weekday becomes a
bank holiday, normally the following
Monday.
Upcoming bank holidays in England and Wales.
| 1 January | Friday | New Year's Day |
|---|
| 2 April | Friday | Good Friday |
| 5 April | Monday | Easter Monday |
| 3 May | Monday | Early May bank holiday |
| 31 May | Monday | Spring bank holiday |
*As 26 January (Australia Day) falls on a Sunday in 2020, the following Monday is observed as the public holiday. ** Monday, 27 April 2020 has been declared a public holiday for all Canberrans by the Minister for Employment and Workplace Safety.
Anzac Day 2020 falls on a Saturday, which means for most Australians, there will be no extra public holiday this year. Even though Anzac Day is a national public holiday, when it falls on a Saturday or Sunday, it doesn't mean all Australians get the Monday after off work.
Easter. However, the states where that day is a public holiday use different terminology – it is officially gazetted as "Easter Saturday" in the ACT, New South Wales, and the Northern Territory; as "the day after Good Friday" in Queensland and South Australia; and as "Saturday before Easter Sunday" in Victoria.
2020. Declared public holiday Monday, 27 April 2020 has been declared a public holiday in the ACT and Western Australia.
There is no ANZAC Day 'long weekend' in NSW, Victoria, Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania and South Australia for 2020. As mentioned, ANZAC Day in 2020 will fall on a Saturday. Similarly, in Victoria, the Public Holidays Act 1993 stipulates the same — no public holiday on Monday this year.
Freedom Day is a public holiday in South Africa celebrated on 27 April. It celebrates freedom and commemorates the first post-apartheid elections held on that day in 1994. And so we assemble here today, and in other parts of the country, to mark a historic day in the life of our nation.
11 when Australia Day (26th of January) falls on a
Saturday or a Sunday, there will be no
public holiday on that day, as the following Monday will be declared a
public holiday.
NSW public holidays.
| Holiday | 2020 | 2021 |
|---|
| Easter Saturday (the Saturday following Good Friday) | Saturday 11 April 2020 | Saturday 3 April 2021 |
Canberrans will have 12 public holidays in 2020, with the ACT government announcing the territory will observe two public holidays for Anzac Day in 2020. The government on Friday declared that the Monday following Anzac Day - April 27 - will be recognised as a public holiday in 2020.
Today – 16 November 2020 – is not a holiday in Queensland. In Queensland, laws pertaining to public holidays are regulated by the Holiday Act 1983. Holiday dates are published annually in the Government Gazette in November or December for the following year.
When is the next bank holiday? This year, the next bank holiday for England, Wales and Northern Ireland falls on Monday 31 August – it always coincides with the final Monday of the month. Therefore last year's day off was on Monday 26 August, and the 2021 bank holiday falls on Monday 30 August.
Of all countries on the globe, Cambodia tops the list for the most public holidays with 28 public holidays observed annually. Sri Lanka follows with 25, India and Kazakhstan with 21, Colombia, the Philippines and Trinidad and Tobago with 18, China and Hong Kong with 17, and Thailand, Turkey, and Pakistan with 16.
An extra Bank Holiday will take place in the UK in June 2022, with a blockbuster weekend of celebrations to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. After 70 years on the throne, the longest period of time of any British monarch ever, it has been deemed cause for a special celebration.
Bank holidays are often assumed to be so called because they are days upon which banks are shut, but days that banks are shut aren't always bank holidays. In England and Wales a bank holiday tends automatically to be a public holiday, so the day is generally observed as a holiday.
This is to commemorate the 75th anniversary of VE Day, which falls on the second Friday of May. The Business Secretary Greg Clark said that the change will "ensure as many people as possible have the opportunity to remember and honour our heroes of the Second World War and reflect on the sacrifices of a generation."
National holidays have been called bank holidays in Britain since the late 19th century. The name originates because these were the days on which the banks were closed for trading. About the only thing that hasn't changed is that most banks are closed on bank holidays - but even that may not last much longer.
A bank holiday is a national public holiday in the United Kingdom and the Crown dependencies. The term refers to all public holidays in the United Kingdom be they set out in statute, declared by royal proclamation or held by convention under common law.
