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Christmas Shipping Deadline: When you need to mail your gifts for delivery by Christmas day

These are the holiday shipping deadlines for this season
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INDIANAPOLIS — With only two weeks left until Christmas, the crunch-time has begun and if you haven't started shipping out your packages to family and friends across the country, your time is running out!

Some companies will let you ship up until just two days before Christmas, but unless you want to pay those high prices you may want to think about getting your mail in before the deadlines.

To help you out, we've created a list of those deadlines below.

Holiday Shipping Deadlines:

U.S. Postal Service
December 14: Ground Shipping
December 20: First Class Shipping
December 21: Priority Mail
December 23: Priority Mail Express

FedEx
December 16: Ground Shipping
December 19: Express Saver
December 20: Two-Day Shipping
December 23: Overnight Shipping

UPS
December 13: UPS Ground Shipping
December 19: UPS 3-Day Select
December 20: UPS 2nd Day Air
December 23: UPS Next Day Air

Amazon
December 14: Last day for free delivery on orders over $25
December 18: Last day to order standard shipping (Free Prime Shipping)
December 23: Last day to order items eligible for One-Day Delivery
December 24: Last day to order items eligible for Same-Day Delivery