Here’s How Soon Hoosiers Should Ship Packages Before Christmas

If you plan on shipping packages for the holiday season this year, be sure you know about the Christmas mailing deadlines.

Many people around the country will be mailing gifts to loved ones this holiday season. If you're one of them, you might want to know about the deadlines in order for the gifts to arrive by Christmas. The Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping deals are going to be coming up before you know it. It's time to start getting those Christmas lists together so that you can get ready to order gifts for the holiday season. Remember, the sooner, the better!

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Shipping Deadlines For The 2022 Holiday Season

As you know, it takes some time to send off your packages and for them to arrive at their final destination. With many people sending packages during the holiday season, you are going to want to get those packages wrapped and shipped off rather quickly if you want them to arrive before Christmas. But how quickly do you need to ship them off to ensure that they arrive before December 25th? Well, the U.S. Postal Service, FedEx, and UPS have released their shipping and mailing deadlines for the 2023 holiday season.

Here are the major deadlines for delivery in time for Monday, December 25th:

U.S. Postal Service

• USPS Ground Advantage: December 16th
• First-Class Mail (including greeting cards): December 16th
• Priority Mail: December 18th
• Priority Mail Express: December 20th

UPS

• UPS® Ground shipping: Check ups.com/ctc for details
• UPS 3 Day Select shipping: December 20th
• UPS 2nd Day Air shipping: December 21st
• UPS Next Day Air shipping: December 22nd

FedEx

• Ground Economy: December 13th
• Express Saver: December 19th
• Express 2 Day: December 20th
• Express Same Day: December 22nd

Granted, we still have plenty of time to get these gifts ordered, wrapped, and shipped off. It still goes without saying that the sooner you can ship these packages off, the better the chance they arrive before Christmas. However, if you send them off by the dates listed above, they should (if everything goes as planned) arrive at your loved ones' front porch just in time for Christmas.