2023 End-Year Shipping Deadlines

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Being an ecommerce brand comes with lots of benefits. But the ecommerce life is not without its hurdles to jump. One of them is a dependency on shipping companies (unless you have your own courier service).

In general, an ecommerce business owner doesn’t feel the strain of this partnership, but when an important milestone arises — like a global sales campaign — you have to be sure your shipping partner doesn’t let you down.

The end of 2023 is coming, and every major shipping company is feeling the effect of the holiday rush. Because of this, they are asking sellers to ship their goods by certain dates if they want them delivered before this year ends.

To ease your stress, and guarantee your customer’s purchases will arrive on time, we’ve done a round-up of deadlines from major shipping companies for domestic deliveries.

Let your customers know about these deadlines and make your shipping plans accordingly.

The United States Domestic Delivery Deadlines

USPS

First-Class Mail	Dec. 16
Priority Mail	Dec. 18*
Priority Mail Express	Dec. 20
USPS Ground Advantage	Dec. 16

* Dec. 16 for Hawaii and Dec. 18 for Alaska

UPS

UPS Ground	Calculate on the site
UPS 3 Day Select	Dec. 19
UPS 2nd Day Air	Dec. 20
UPS Next Day Air	Dec. 21

FedEx

FedEx SameDay	Dec. 22
FO, PO, SO, Extra Hours	Dec. 21
2Day & 2Day AM	Dec. 20
FedEx Express Saver	Dec. 19
FedEx Express® 1Day Freight	Dec. 21
FedEx Express® 2Day Freight	Dec. 20
FedEx Express® 3Day Freight	Dec. 19

Canada Domestic Delivery Deadlines

Canada Post

Regular Parcel	Dec. 8-18
Expedited Parcel or flat rate box	Dec. 12-19
Xpresspost	Dec. 20
Priority	Dec. 20

Australia Domestic Delivery Deadlines

Australia Post

Parcel Post	Dec. 15-19
Express Post	Dec. 20-22

Greate Britain Domestic Delivery Deadlines

Royal Mail

2nd Class and 2nd Class Signed For	Dec. 18
1st Class and 1st Class Signed For	Dec. 19
Royal Mail Tracked 48	Dec. 20
Royal Mail Tracked 24	Dec. 21
Special Delivery Guaranteed	Dec. 22

Germany Delivery Deadlines

Deutsche Post and DHL

DHL Domestic Express	Dec. 22
DHL Economy Select	Dec. 18
DSmartMail Expedited Max	Dec. 16
SmartMail Expedited	Dec. 14
SmartMail Ground	Dec. 9

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Nov 3, 2023

About the author

Max has been working in the ecommerce industry for the last six years helping brands to establish and level-up content marketing and SEO. Despite that, he has experience with entrepreneurship. He is a fiction writer in his free time.