NS&I Guaranteed Income Bonds withdrawn

Franco_OK

From the NS&I announcement:

"Postal applications received for a reasonable period will be honoured."

Any idea what they might mean by that? What is a reasonable period?
Postal application they received today, Friday?
Next Monday? Next week? Two weeks?

eskbanker

I'd assume (without any evidence!) that they'd probably mean those postmarked before the announcement....

Eco_Miser

... or just after, as in 'already posted but not yet postmarked' at time of announcement.

Franco_OK

Thinking this through, the deadline might be a little more generous.  Imagine somebody posted their application second class on Wednesday night - there's a strong chance that's still on its way.  NS&I would have to be pretty hard to reject an application like that.   
Also bear in mind that a sizeable percentage of letters aren't postmarked for various reasons.  Even some printed postal labels don't have a date on them.  Maybe it's more likely NS&I look at the date the application was signed?

I think I'm answering my own question here!