Here are the shipping deadlines to get your holiday gifts on time

Amazon Prime members whitethorn beryllium eligible for escaped same-day delivery. | Photo: Justin Sullivan / Getty Images

Let’s look it, the aforesaid happening happens twelvemonth aft year. Things get engaged with work, school, and beingness successful wide until you’re abruptly up against the timepiece arsenic you contention your gifts to your section station office, FedEx store, oregon UPS location. We’ve each been there, but we’d similar to assistance arsenic you program your adjacent determination and statesman sending retired your vacation packages.

If you mean to nonstop your gifts via accepted message this year, we’ve compiled the home shipping deadlines for assorted carriers and large retailers, truthful you tin program up and guarantee your packages get earlier the holidays. Hopefully, it volition assistance you debar immoderate unwanted accent — well, assuming that’s adjacent imaginable this clip of year.

With UPS, you person until Tuesday, December 23rd, to vessel via Next Day Air and person your bundle get by Wednesday, December 24th. Packages shipped via Next Day Air aft the 23rd won’t get until aft Christmas. Monday, December 22nd, is the past time to vessel via 2nd Day Air if you privation your bundle to get by December 24th. You tin opt for UPS’s 3 Day Select enactment until Friday, December 19th, to person it get by the 22nd. If you program to vessel your packages earlier then, you should beryllium good opting for the modular pickup and transportation service.

See much details regarding UPS shipping deadlines here.

FedEx says the cutoff for its SameDay transportation is Wednesday, December 24th, but it’s risky to vessel packages that late, arsenic adjacent the slightest hold could effect successful them arriving aft Christmas. However, if you vessel it by Monday, December 22nd, you tin take either of the two-day shipping methods. And if you negociate to get it to FedEx by Saturday, December 20th, you tin spell with the Express Saver enactment for a much tenable shipping fee.

See much details regarding FedEx shipping deadlines here.

Saturday, December 20th, is the last time to nonstop packages (to get by Christmas Eve) via USPS Priority Mail Express, portion the cutoff day for packages to be delivered earlier Christmas via modular Priority Mail is Thursday, December 18th. First-Class Mail packages and those you mean to nonstop via USPS Ground Advantage, meanwhile, indispensable beryllium sent by Wednesday, December 17th, if you privation them to get successful clip for Christmas.

See much details regarding USPS shipping deadlines here.

Amazon vacation shipping deadlines

• If you subscribe to Amazon Prime and unrecorded successful an eligible ZIP code successful the US, you tin get Same-Day Delivery connected definite items done December 24th. You’ll request to conscionable the “minimum threshold” of eligible items successful your cart; however, the nonstop threshold varies by determination (see present for much details). Same-Day Delivery costs up to $2.99 per bid for Prime members whose orders autumn nether the threshold, oregon up to $12.99 for non-Prime customers.
• Prime members tin get One-Day Delivery for eligible products done December 23rd with nary minimum acquisition magnitude oregon Two-Day Delivery done December 22nd.
• If you’re a Prime subordinate successful prime US cities, you tin instrumentality vantage of two-hour market transportation done December 24th.

Shipping times and prices whitethorn alteration depending connected the merchandise type, size, and whether it’s shipping straight from Amazon oregon a third-party seller, truthful marque definite to cheque the expected accomplishment day astatine checkout, past take accordingly.

Best Buy vacation shipping deadlines

• If you’re a My Best Buy Plus oregon Total subscriber, you tin get escaped two-day shipping with nary minimum bid size. However, those without a premium subscription indispensable conscionable the $35 bid threshold (before taxes but aft coupons), and lone definite items are disposable for next-day and modular shipping.
• Free next-day transportation is disposable connected prime items done December 23rd if you bid by 10:30AM section time.
• You tin get free same-day delivery if you bid your bundle connected December 24th, arsenic agelong arsenic you spot your bid by 12PM section time.
• If you bid online by 5PM section clip connected Christmas Eve, you’ll besides beryllium eligible for in-store pickup until 7PM.

Keep successful caput that Best Buy’s shipment and accomplishment dates alteration depending connected the benignant of point you’re purchasing. Major appliances, for instance, whitethorn instrumentality longer to beryllium delivered than smaller, much accepted electronics.

Walmart vacation shipping deadlines

• Walmart offers escaped modular shipping connected orders of $35 sold straight from Walmart. You indispensable spot orders by 12:30PM section clip connected December 23rd to person the bundle successful clip for Christmas, however. Next-day shipping is besides disposable successful immoderate areas.
• Walmart besides offers escaped next-day and two-day shipping to Walmart Plus subscribers with nary bid minimum. However, the accomplishment day of your bundle whitethorn alteration depending connected whether Walmart oregon a third-party seller is shipping your item.
• The retailer offers same-day pickup and transportation connected orders placed by 12PM section clip connected December 24th.
• You tin besides person the bundle delivered to you successful arsenic small arsenic 1 hr connected Christmas Eve if you bid by 5PM section clip and wage a $10 Express Delivery fee.

Target vacation shipping deadlines

• Target stores volition beryllium unfastened until midnight done December 23rd and 8PM section clip connected Christmas Eve, though it’s omniscient to get pickup orders and same-day shipping orders successful by December 23rd to beryllium connected the harmless side.
• Orders placed by 6PM section clip connected Christmas Eve are eligible for in-store pickup until 8PM.
• Those with a Target Circle card tin person escaped two-day shipping connected galore items from the retailer’s website, and same-day transportation connected orders placed by 3PM section clip connected Christmas Eve. Next-day transportation is disposable successful 35 cities, too, but the bid cutoff clip varies by location.
• Many (but not all) orders implicit $35 are eligible for escaped shipping, adjacent if you don’t person a Target Circle paper oregon Circle 360 membership. It’s determined by the item’s determination and your ZIP code.

As with Walmart and Amazon, beryllium alert that items shipped oregon sold by third-party retailers astatine Target whitethorn effect successful longer pb times. Product listings usually spell retired your options for pickup, same-day delivery, and modular shipping — implicit with estimated availability times — earlier you adhd them to your cart.

Update, December 13th: Updated shipping deadlines and different related accusation pertaining to the 2025 vacation season.