Royal Mail predict 'Take-back Tuesday'

Royal Mail predicts that ‘Take-back Tuesday', the first working day in the New Year (Tuesday 3rd January), will be the busiest day for online shopping returns through the post, as shoppers rush to send back unwanted Christmas gifts.

Returns of online purchases are predicted to jump by more than 50 per cent in a single day, versus the average number of return parcels per day in December.

The prediction is based on the number of returns parcels handled by Royal Mail through its Tracked Returns service, which is used by more than 1,000 e-retailers for the return of unwanted online purchases.