2019 US Holiday Shipping Deadlines
The Holidays are fast approaching bringing with them the challenge of ensuring that packages arrive to your customers in time for the celebrations. To add to the challenge, as many as 40% of all shoppers do their shopping within the last 10 days of the season. Offering last-minute shoppers an option for express services can help ensure that packages arrive on time.
To help, we’ve put together a list of deadlines for USPS, UPS, and FedEx.
USPS US HOLIDAY DEADLINES
| SERVICE | SHIPPING CUTOFF DATE |
| Retail Ground | Saturday, December 14th |
| first class mail® | Friday, December 20th |
| Priority mail® | Saturday, December 21st |
| priority mail express® | Monday, December 23rd |
For USPS international shipping deadlines, click here.
FEDEX US HOLIDAY DEADLINES
| SERVICE | SHIPPING CUTOFF DATE |
| fedex smartpost® | Monday, December 19th |
| fedex ground® | Monday, December 16th |
| home delivery® | Monday, December 16th |
| express saver® | Thursday, December 19th |
| 2Day® services | Friday, December 20th |
| overnight services® | Monday, December 23rd |
UPS US HOLIDAY DEADLINES
| SERVICE | SHIPPING CUTOFF DATE |
| Ground® | Friday, December 13th |
| 3 Day Select® | Thursday, December 19th |
| 2nd Day Air® Services | Friday, December 20th |
| Next day air® Services | Monday, December 23rd |
See the full UPS Holiday Shipping Schedule here.
2019 HOLIDAY SHIPPING DEADLINES CALENDAR
Here is a calendar that will help you to visualize what services are best to use and when to use them. It will also assist you with deciding when to cut over to express services and which services are best to use when.
Be sure to let customers know when they should upgrade their shipping service in order to ensure that packages arrive on time.
