Delivery statistics

These figures cover 620 AliExpress orders delivered to the UK. Future versions will accept anonymous tracking histories so we can build country-specific estimates for more destinations.

Destination
United Kingdom
Data period: Aug 2025 → Aug 2026
Updated 13 Aug 2026, 23:19 UTC
620
parcels
7.9 days
median delivery time
8.8 days
average delivery time
28.5
tracking events per parcel

Delivery times

The overall split, with long deliveries expanded below

620 parcels
3.6-7.7 days25040.3%
7.7-11.7 days32852.9%
11.7-15.8 days264.2%
15.8+ days162.6%
Long-delivery detailTail ranges share an expanded count scale
16 parcels
15.8-19.8 days
2
19.8-23.9 days
3
23.9-27.9 days
2
27.9-31.9 days
0
31.9-36 days
0
36-40 days
0
40-44.1 days
9

Percentiles

Time taken by the fastest 25% through 95%

P25
6.8 days
P50
7.9 days
P75
9.7 days
P90
10.7 days
P95
12.7 days
96.6%of completed parcels arrived within 14 days

Last-mile carriers

Parcel count and average delivery time

ServiceParcels / shareAverage time
EVRI 326 8.2 days
Yodel 143 9.2 days
Royal Mail 44 9.1 days
OtherOther 29 9.9 days

Carrier handoffs

Routes follow the carrier order stored in each tracking record

Yodel Evri
26parcels
11.1 daysaverage
8.3 daysmedian
+2.9 days slower than direct Evri (34.7%)
Evri Yodel
24parcels
8.6 daysaverage
8.4 daysmedian
−0.6 days faster than direct Yodel (6.5%)
Evri Royal Mail
17parcels
9.2 daysaverage
9.7 daysmedian
+0.1 days slower than direct Royal Mail (0.7%)
Royal Mail Evri
9parcels
7.7 daysaverage
6.8 daysmedian
−0.5 days faster than direct Evri (6.6%)
Royal Mail Yodel Evri
1parcels
8.7 daysaverage
8.7 daysmedian
+0.4 days slower than direct Evri (5.3%)
Evri Yodel Royal Mail
1parcels
10.7 daysaverage
10.7 daysmedian
+1.6 days slower than direct Royal Mail (17.1%)

We use parcels handled by the final carrier alone as the baseline. Other route differences may affect the result.

Average delivery time by month

Delivery month, with major holidays and retail peaks marked

Deliveries by weekday

Day of the final delivery scan

7
Sun
99
Mon
98
Tue
111
Wed
127
Thu
86
Fri
92
Sat

Weekly delivery-time drill-down

Choose a delivery month to see how its completed parcels were distributed across calendar weeks

Parcels62
Monthly average13.7 days
Monthly median7.7 days
Over 14 days24.2%
Delivery weekParcelsAverageMedianP90Over 14 days
2 Mar–8 Mar199.3 days6.8 days19.8 days21.1%
9 Mar–15 Mar3617.1 days8.8 days40.7 days27.8%
16 Mar–22 Mar66.9 days6.9 days6.9 days0.0%
23 Mar–29 Mar114.8 days14.8 days14.8 days100.0%

Weeks run Monday to Sunday. A week can cross a month boundary, but each view includes only parcels delivered in the selected month. Treat weeks with fewer than 10 parcels as directional.

Holiday and peak-season signals

Delivery-month averages compared with nearby non-event months

Aug 2025–Aug 2026
Slowest monthMarch 2026

13.7 days average from 62 parcels.

Fastest monthMay 2026

7.0 days average from 47 parcels.

What stands outSpring Festival spillover

March’s mean rose much more than its median, so a smaller group of very long deliveries drove most of the peak.

National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival

1–8 Oct 2025

1.2 days fasterno slowdown visible in Nov 2025
Parcels
66
Median change
−1.9 days
Over 14 days
3.0%

An eight-day public holiday in China. The following delivery month shows whether a backlog reached UK recipients.

Singles’ Day to Christmas

11 Nov–26 Dec 2025

+0.4 dayslittle change in Dec 2025
Parcels
55
Median change
+0.8 days
Over 14 days
0.0%

Singles’ Day, Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Christmas concentrate retail demand across international and UK delivery networks.

Spring Festival

15–23 Feb 2026

+6.0 dayshigher average in Mar 2026
Parcels
62
Median change
+0.8 days
Over 14 days
24.2%

Factory closures and the post-holiday backlog can carry into deliveries completed several weeks later.

Qingming Festival

4–6 Apr 2026

+0.0 dayslittle change in Apr 2026
Parcels
30
Median change
−0.6 days
Over 14 days
0.0%

A three-day public holiday in China. Its short duration makes a sustained effect less likely than Spring Festival.

Labour Day

1–5 May 2026

1.0 days fasterno slowdown visible in May 2026
Parcels
47
Median change
−1.1 days
Over 14 days
0.0%

A five-day public holiday in China with adjusted working days around the break.

Dragon Boat Festival

19–21 Jun 2026

+1.0 dayshigher average in Jul 2026
Parcels
24
Median change
+1.2 days
Over 14 days
8.3%

A three-day public holiday. July is shown as the possible spillover month.

China’s official calendars confirm the factory and public-sector holiday windows shown here. DHL describes October to December as the global retail peak and reported roughly 20% more Express shipments than an average day between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday in 2025. Royal Mail also warns that international networks carry much higher Christmas volumes.

China 2025 holidays ↗China 2026 holidays ↗DHL peak data ↗Royal Mail Christmas guidance ↗US Thanksgiving date ↗

This dataset covers one annual cycle and UK destinations only. Nearby months are a comparison, not a control group. Carrier mix, order timing and small weekly samples can also move the result, so the cards show association rather than causation.

Chinese New Year and March deliveries

2026 Spring Festival holiday: 15 to 23 February

🧧

March deliveries averaged 13.7 days, which was 6.0 days longer than the January and April baseline.

March’s average rose 77.7%. Its median stayed at 7.7 days. 15 of 62 deliveries took more than 14 days and pulled the average up.

14 of 15long deliveries started in January or February.
Delivery monthParcelsAverageMedianOver 14 days
Jan 2026 28 7.8 days 7.5 days 0.0%
Feb 2026 🧧 CNY 43 9.4 days 8.9 days 0.0%
Mar 2026 Backlog peak 62 13.7 days 7.7 days 24.2%
Apr 2026 30 7.6 days 7.0 days 0.0%

China scheduled the 2026 Spring Festival break for 15 to 23 February. FedEx reports that factories can slow before the holiday and carriers may spend one to four weeks clearing backlogs after it.

Official 2026 holiday notice ↗FedEx logistics guidance ↗

Timing alone cannot establish cause. We group parcels by delivery month, so delayed February parcels can appear in March.

Common tracking updates

Status text repeated across parcels

01Package received by sorting center of origin.1,402×
02In transit - Package left sorting center of origin.779×
03Package arrived at regional carrier facility779×
04Delivered - Package delivered.774×
05Import customs clearance started771×
06Awaiting flight768×
07Package out for delivery761×
08Package leaving origin country/region.754×

Longest gaps between updates

Average gap before the next scan, with at least 3 examples

Tracking eventAverage waitSeen
Package transit at airport11.2 days3×
The seller has shipped your package.1.9 days110×
Package arrived at transit country/region.1.7 days3×
Package out for delivery1.5 days161×
Your package has left from the sorting center1.2 days4×
Collected by destination carrier - Package arrived at regional carrier facility1.1 days4×
Your package is being prepared1.1 days620×

Method

Delivery time

We measure from the first stored event to the delivery scan and exclude incomplete parcels.

Percentiles

P50 is the median. P75 and P90 show the slower end of the distribution.

Carrier data

We read carrier names from each tracking record. The results cover this dataset.