Royal Mail status
Royal Mail uptime & performance at a glance
- Current status
- Operational
- Uptime · 24h
- 100%
- Uptime · 7 days
- 100%
- Uptime · 30 days
- 100%
- Response time
- 173 ms
- Tracked incidents
- 0
- SSL certificate
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Is Royal Mail down, or is it just you?
Multiple independent check rounds from rimetry's monitoring infrastructure, run seconds apart.
Our checks reached Royal Mail successfully in every round of the last check cycle.
| Check round | Last check | Success rate (24h) | Avg response |
|---|---|---|---|
| Round 1 | Reachable | 100% | 460 ms |
| Round 2 | Reachable | 100% | 437 ms |
| Round 3 | Reachable | 100% | 396 ms |
| Round 4 | Reachable | 100% | 412 ms |
Based on 360 automated checks in the last 24 hours. Each round is an independent pass over the same endpoint, seconds apart — a single failing round is not an outage; repeated failures across rounds are.
What can be affected on Royal Mail?
These are the main Royal Mail functions that can experience separate issues.
- Parcel trackingParcel scans can lag physical movement — check again later
- WebsiteOpen the site in another browser to rule out a local cache issue
- NotificationsCheck notification permissions before reporting missing alerts
- Account & settingsCheck account settings from the website if the app looks wrong
This list shows which parts can fail on their own. It does not mean any of them is failing right now — the live status above is the only claim we make about the current state.
Incident timeline
No incidents reported. Everything is green.
Royal Mail appears stable across all monitored regions. Community reports in the last hour are within normal noise levels.
Monitoring live signals…
No disruptions detected
No regional issues yet
About Royal Mail
Royal Mail is the primary postal service in the United Kingdom, handling letter delivery and parcel logistics through its Track and Trace system. Customers use the online portal to purchase postage, schedule collections, and monitor the transit status of their shipments. When the digital service fails, users often cannot access tracking updates, print shipping labels, or use the mobile app for delivery preferences. Database errors can also lead to incorrect parcel status information being displayed. Rimetry keeps a constant watch on the availability of these logistics tools and verifies that the public-facing tracking APIs remain functional for senders and recipients.
Problems with Royal Mail can affect parcel tracking, website, notifications independently.
Royal Mail (royalmail.com) is a delivery & logistics service monitored continuously by rimetry's automated checks. We probe its public endpoints every 60 seconds in repeated independent rounds to detect outages and latency spikes the moment they happen.
Right now Royal Mail is reporting as operational across our probes, with an average response time of 173 ms and 100.00% uptime over the last 24 hours. Most users connecting to royalmail.com are seeing it work normally.
Common causes of disruption for services like Royal Mail include backend API failures, region-specific routing problems at the CDN or ISP layer, expired TLS certificates, DNS misconfigurations, and capacity spikes during major events. rimetry combines automated probes, vendor status feeds, and verified community reports to give you a single high-confidence answer instead of guessing.
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What is Royal Mail?
UK national postal operator and parcel delivery.
Royal Mail is part of our Delivery & Logistics category. You can also review current trending outages across the internet.
Common issues
- · Tracking not updating
- · Tracking number not recognised
- · Portal or label creation failing
- · Missed delivery notifications
Similar patterns often surface across other delivery & logistics providers — cross-check against the global outage map.
Troubleshooting
- · Parcel scans can lag physical movement — check again later
- · Open the site in another browser to rule out a local cache issue
- · Check notification permissions before reporting missing alerts
- · Check account settings from the website if the app looks wrong
- · Tracking often lags physical movement — check again after a few hours
- · Search by both tracking number and reference number
- · Try the carrier's own site rather than a retailer's embedded tracker
- · Confirm the number was entered without spaces
- · Use the app if the website is unreachable
- · Check Royal Mail's official social channels
Not sure whether it's you or the service? Run a live speed test, check what your IP looks like from the edge, or watch for regional trouble on the worldwide outage map. For the wider picture, browse recent incidents or filter down to delivery & logistics.
FAQ
- Is Royal Mail down for everyone?
Use the live status above — green means it's likely just you. - How often is the status updated?
Every minute from four global regions. - Is Royal Mail Parcel tracking down?
Parcel tracking can fail on its own, separately from the rest of Royal Mail. Compare the live status above with your own test of that specific function. - Where can I see past Royal Mail incidents?
Every event we've recorded lives in the live incident feed, and older ones are grouped in the monthly incident archive. - What else is broken right now?
See the trending outages page or narrow it to delivery & logistics.