{"id":14105,"date":"2014-10-30T17:17:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T23:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/u-s-postal-service-announces-holiday-shipping-deadlines\/"},"modified":"2014-11-15T19:48:41","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T02:48:41","slug":"u-s-postal-service-announces-holiday-shipping-deadlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/u-s-postal-service-announces-holiday-shipping-deadlines\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Postal Service Announces Holiday Shipping Deadlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Postal Service is gearing up to help customers ship 15.5 billion cards, letters and packages in time for <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also aiming to cash in on the holiday by offering festive stamps, packaging and even gift cards.<\/p>\n<p>To make sure your package is delivered on time, the agency suggests sending gifts a little early.<\/p>\n<p>Taking advantage of the Postal Service\u2019s online postage and free package pick-up may help as well.<\/p>\n<p>To ensure that holiday mail and packages are delivered in time for <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a>, the Postal Service recommends the following mailing and shipping deadlines:<\/p>\n<p>Dec. 2 \u2013 First-Class Mail International<\/p>\n<p>Dec. 2 \u2013 Priority Mail International<\/p>\n<p>Dec. 10 \u2013 Priority Mail Express International<\/p>\n<p>Dec. 15 \u2013 Standard Post<\/p>\n<p>Dec. 17 \u2013 Global Express Guaranteed<\/p>\n<p>Dec. 20 \u2013 First-Class Mail<\/p>\n<p>Dec. 20 \u2013 Priority Mail<\/p>\n<p>Dec. 23 \u2013 Priority Mail Express<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mmc-220a5.kxcdn.com\/x\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/e5lenpo19xg.gif\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Postal Service is gearing up to help customers ship 15.5 billion cards, letters and packages in time for Christmas. It\u2019s also aiming to cash in on the holiday by offering festive stamps, packaging and even gift cards. To make sure your package is delivered on time, the agency suggests sending gifts a little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","iawp_total_views":10,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-14105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-news","tag-external-christmas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}