Holiday Shipping

Get your gifts, cards and packages mailed early to make the most of the seasonal celebrations.

There’s a last minute rush going on to get gifts in time for Christmas. Here are your options:

With New York City’s popular outdoor Christmas markets underway, Exquisito Chocolates in Miami encounters some supply chain headaches as it prepares to participate in one outdoor market. Delays and high costs for construction materials force owner Carolina Quijano to change her booth’s design to make it more affordable.

The US postal service, FedEx and UPS have all released their deadlines for packages and holiday cards to arrive by December 25 and the theme is all the same: send them early.

Last year more than a third of Postal Service first-class mail was late by the time Christmas arrived. The shipping nightmare has both the U.S. Postal Service and private shippers like UPS and FedEx bringing on more help this year, hiring roughly 230,000 temporary workers. They are also taking other steps like installing new package sorting machines.

Postal workers who recall packages and letters piled up in distribution hubs a year ago are gearing up for another holiday crush

It was called “Ship-a-geddon” when pandemic online shopping collided with the holidays last year. The result was a lot of back-ups and package delays. As COVID lingers and supply chain issues mount, Patricia Falcao of Needham, Massachusetts, isn’t sure what her holiday shipping strategy is this year. “Because of supply chain issues one might not get the goods to...

UPS tells NBC10 Boston it can process packages faster than last year because of expanded air and ground fleets and that 88-percent of eligible packages will flow through automated facilities by the end of the year. The US Postal Service is investing about 40 billion dollars in new equipment, technology and personnel, including the addition of 118 new...

Time is running out to make sure your packages and holiday cards are mailed in time to arrive by Dec. 25

Starting Oct. 1, the US Postal Service will be implementing new service standards for first-class mail and periodicals, which could slow down delivery times. Here’s what you need to know.