After the  fantastic Olympics and Paralympic Games and the biggest medal overhaul for the last 100 years, all the British athletes will be taking part in a hero’s parade through London on Monday 10th September 2012.

The athletes, who brought home 150 medals between them, will travel on a series of floats from Mansion House to Trafalgar Square along Queen Victoria Street and Cannon Street, passing by St Paul's Cathedral, continuing along Fleet Street, past Aldwych and into The Strand.

The event will start at 13:30 and finish at around 16:00. Most roads required by the event will be closed from 11:00 with those around Guildhall closing from 06:00 to allow the coach convoy to assemble. Roads will reopen after the event as soon as it is safe to do so.

The event is expected to exceed any previous victory parades in respect of its size and crowd numbers, with over 200,000 spectators expected to attend. 850 Olympic and Paralympic athletes will be involved in the procession.

There will be some temporary road closures to facilitate the parade which in turn may cause disruptions to our delivery service. We assure our customers we will do our upmost to make sure our deliveries run as smoothly as possible during the parade.

For more information of road closures please see – Our Greatest Team Parade Map

Busy Times Ahead...

With 24 Olympic venues across London, we will certainly have a very busy few months which is bound to cause some traffic jams. But you don’t need to worry, here at ipostparcels.com we’ve been getting ourselves prepped and ready for The Games.

Our reliable next day delivery service will keep on going using our UK Mail overnight network. If you’ve chosen for collection/delivery by a certain time then we will make this our priority; however we can’t carry a guarantee during The Games. There are also a few postcodes that will probably see a heavy build-up of traffic, they are as follows:

Lockdown Postcodes:

For the duration of the Games, Official London 2012 Venues (often referred to as “lockdown venues”) will be subject to additional security and all final mile deliveries to these venues will be made by UPS. For additional information on UPS charges & affected addresses please read our guide to Olympic Venues.

The Olympics are literally a few days away and the excitement and buzz around the UK is mounting. Here at ipostparcels.com we’re truly getting into the spirit of things and have put together a competition for all of our customers.

Competition time

I’ve decided I am going to pick out a lucky winner at random for every Gold medal won by Team GB. For each Gold medal each winner will receive a £5 off their next shipment voucher available to use when booking in a parcel for next day delivery!

In it to win it

For you chance at getting £5 off your next shipment all you have to do is simply ‘follow’ @ipostparcels on twitter. Every time Team GB wins a Gold medal we’ll tweet out a message. If you retweet the message you’ll automatically be entered into the draw.

All the winners will be drawn at the end of the Olympics on August 12th 2012.

See the ipospracels.com press release online.

Great chance of winning

In the last Olympics held in Beijing in 2008, Team GB won a rather impressive 19 Gold medals! Judging by the athlete’s forming Team GB this time round I say we’re in for another impressive set of Gold medals coming our way.

So let’s all get together and support our team and follow @ipostparcels for your chance at winning.

You can also keep up to date on our delivery plans throughout The Games; take a look at our previous blog ‘Olympics’ for more information.