{"id":32473,"date":"2021-10-08T12:19:26","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T18:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=32473"},"modified":"2021-10-08T12:19:26","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T18:19:26","slug":"shipping-deadlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/shipping-deadlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Shipping Deadlines Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shipping deadlines for the 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> season have been announced by the United States Postal Service and major carriers of holiday freight.<\/p>\n<p>The topic has come under scrutiny with recently announced <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mail-delivery-slower-usps-october-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">changes to USPS delivery policy<\/a><\/strong> which is rumored to account for up to 30 percent longer delays in the delivery of first class mail.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the announced deadlines:<\/p>\n<h3>USPS Delivery Schedule<\/h3>\n<p>Dec. 17 \u2014 First-Class Mail service (including greeting cards)<br \/>\nDec. 17 \u2014 First-class packages (up to 15.99 ounces)<br \/>\nDec. 18 \u2014 Priority Mail service<br \/>\nDec. 23 \u2014 Priority Mail Express service<\/p>\n<h3>FedEx Delivery Schedule<\/h3>\n<p>FedEx Ground Economy &#8211; Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021<br \/>\nFedEx Ground &#8211; Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021<br \/>\nHome Delivery &#8211; Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021<br \/>\nExpress Saver &#8211; Tuesday, Dec. 21, 20212<br \/>\n2Day &amp; 2Day AM \u00a0&#8211; Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2021<br \/>\nOvernight Services &#8211; Thursday, Dec. 23, 2021<br \/>\nFedEx Same Day &#8211; Friday, Dec. 24, 2021<\/p>\n<h3>UPS Delivery Schedule<\/h3>\n<p>Ground &#8211; Wednesday, December 15th, 2021<br \/>\n3 Day Select &#8211; Tuesday, December 21st, 2021<br \/>\n2nd Day Air Services &#8211; Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021<br \/>\nNext Day Air Services &#8211; Thursday, December 23rd, 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shipping deadlines for the 2021 Christmas season have been announced by the United States Postal Service and major carriers of holiday freight. The topic has come under scrutiny with recently announced changes to USPS delivery policy which is rumored to account for up to 30 percent longer delays in the delivery of first class mail. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":32474,"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":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[899,115,898],"class_list":["post-32473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-news","tag-fedex","tag-ups","tag-usps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32473","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}