With Christmas just a week away, the United States Postal Service (USPS) is preparing for a busy holiday season, expecting to surpass last year's 188 billion pieces of mail and packages processed.

Here’s a list of 2025 holiday mailing and shipping deadlines for USPS, FedEx and UPS. See the last days to send Christmas mail and packages.

The U.S. Postal Service's new postmark process could lead to late fees and penalties when mailing time-sensitive documents.

The United States Postal Service has changed the postmark process going into 2026, which potentially could add late fees and penalties to parcels.