Holiday Shipping, Mailing Deadlines For Bronxville, Eastchester

BRONXVILLE, NY — One of the more stressful things during the holiday season is wondering whether packages and cards will arrive for your friends and relatives on time. To help alleviate some of that worry, gift-givers in and around the Hudson Valley will want to pay attention to holiday shipping deadlines by the U.S. Postal Service, Federal Express and UPS.

A couple of early deadlines for military or international shipping have passed, but you still have options.

The Post Office expects to deliver nearly 15 billion pieces of mail and 900 million packages through New Year’s Day and is expanding its Sunday delivery service in most major cities. About 8 million packages will be delivered on Sundays this December.

If you’re shipping from a post office in New York, the busiest time for holiday shipping is now two weeks before Christmas. Starting the week of Dec. 10, customer traffic is expected to increase, and the Postal Service expects to deliver nearly 200 million packages per week during these two weeks. The week of Dec. 17-23 is predicted to be the busiest mailing, shipping and delivery week, when nearly 3 billion pieces of First-Class Mail, including greeting cards, will be processed and delivered.

A new service, Informed Delivery, is also available in most metropolitan areas. It provides a digital preview of what’s coming to your mailbox, and allows you to manage your packages, peek at the cards that are headed your way and see the exterior images of magazines and catalogs, all from a mobile app, dashboard, tablet or computer.

Here are all the deadlines you need to keep in mind (and ones that have passed):

U.S. Postal Service
Domestic
Friday, Dec. 14: USPS Retail Ground
Thursday, Dec. 20: First Class Mail, Priority Mail
Saturday, Dec. 22: Priority Mail Express

International
Saturday, Dec. 1: First-Class Package International Service and Priority Mail International
Saturday, Dec. 8: Priority Mail Express International
Wednesday, Dec. 19: Global Express Guaranteed

Military
Tuesday, Dec. 4: Parcel Airlift Mail
Tuesday, Dec. 11: Priority Mail; First Class Mail (cards and letters)
Tuesday, Dec. 18: Priority Mail Express Military Service

For more information on mailing cards and packages to the troops, go here. You can also order flat-rate boxes featuring the “America Supports You” logo here.

FedEx
Monday, Dec. 10: SmartPost Services
Friday, Dec. 14: Ground
Monday, Dec.17: Home Delivery
Wednesday, Dec. 19: Express Saver
Thursday, Dec 20: Two-Day Service
Friday, Dec. 21: Overnight Service

UPS
Friday, Dec. 14: Ground
Tuesday, Dec. 18: 3 Day Select
Thursday, Dec.20: 2nd Day Air Service
Saturday, Dec. 22: NextDay Air Services

For more information and to find a shipping location, go the USPS, FedEx and UPS websites.

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