By James Tozer
Last updated at 10: 20 pm on the 13th December 2010
Families face an anxious wait to see whether Christmas gifts online bought in time for the big day, with another band of heavy snow set strike arrive later this week.
Treacherous roads and cancelled trains have Internet retailers sales boosted, how many buyers had to stay at home but the record a race meant snowfall, gifts delivered.
Lagging, caused by the first wave of winter weather already force Sunday to make postal deliveries confirmed forecasters yesterday is an another bout of cold weather on the way.
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Race against time: a huge backlog of the by the first wave of winter weather caused has already forced postman Sunday to make deliveries to hit the Christmas period. Above a Postie doing the rounds in Bingham, Nottinghamshire
An icy bitter cold air is down from the North Pole by Wednesday night, sweep with it brings a fresh dumping snow for much of the country, especially in the West.
'We will see, a real Arctic explosion come almost directly from the North Pole' met Office forecaster Tim Thorne said.
' It is an area of low pressure coming from the South again freeze Iceland that really plunge us conditions at least brought this weekend.
' While Thursday is the band of cold weather probably as rain and sleet distributed scheduled to begin on the country, but starting to turn to snow.
Winter Wonderland: Lumberjacks face a race against time Christmas trees on a plantation in Croft, North Yorkshire fell 
chilly conditions: skaters enjoy Edinburgh's ice skating rink in Princes Street Gardens after a few weeks of bad weather in Scotland"It will be other important meeting again will bring almost certainly quite a bit more disruption."
Some areas are blizzards and serious about night Frost strike and fight much above the freezing point, with biting temperatures Northwest winds make it so how 10 c (14f) feel low rise.
Before then, apart from a few snow showers in the coastal areas of South-East and East Anglia and overnight Frost almost everywhere is the first half of the week, something like a breathing space.
See a frantic catch effort with interruptions for postal services has seen the worst-affected parts of the country with snow covered for more than two weeks.
Many Internet retailers have alerts on your websites that normal delivery booked meets deadlines because of the weather.
Postman in parts made deliveries yesterday, and Royal Mail bosses today have predicted Yorkshire which will prove your busiest day of the year.
Big freeze: Frosterley that Moore was Durham of snow that would not melt as temperatures this week were taken 
Arctic Europe: Paris and were hit by heavy snowfall in GermanyDuring the Royal Mail's guarantee for the next day special delivery items has been withdrawn because of bad weather last Christmas post 15 standard remains 18 for the second class and December parcels December December 21 for first class.
A spokesman said: "we work very hard, but as always we humans post mail or online orders, encourage as early as possible."
With the met Office warning of icy roads even before remain snow grit deliveries under pressure.
Last night passed Department for transport stocks were closely monitored but remained higher than last winter, when chaos causes bottlenecks for many Councils.
And bookmaker reports a wave of betting on a White Christmas. Edinburgh, Glasgow and Newcastle are in 3 / 1 William Hill snow on Christmas day have prices.
In a video online snow thunders a thick layer of snow from the roof of a House as a man it taps with a stick.
A hanging cable is from the window of the first floor rooms is tapped, when suddenly all slips the white stuff. It was now unclear when and where the YouTube video was shot.
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