Use This 2017 Holiday Shipping Guide to Ensure Your Gifts Arrive on Time
Everyone knows that when it comes to shipping packages, the holidays are huge. Shopping online makes it easy to have gifts for everyone on your list delivered right to your doorstep, and all those Amazon boxes will definitely come in handy again when you need to send gifts to friends and family across the country.
If you are mailing these packages, you have to remember not only the date of the holiday itself, but also the deadline when you need to mail this gift in order to ensure that it arrives on time. Delivery on holidays is also particularly challenging as limited hours and days are available. If you wait too long, you may end up paying more to deliver this gift than you originally paid for it.
It is also important to remember that for convenience and reliability of shipping on holidays, not all carriers are created equal.
For example, you might think you’re good to go with a Christmas present shipped via FedEx 2-Day on the 21st, but starting on the 22nd FedEx has limited shipping hours and doesn’t arrive at all on the 24th or 25th. Your package may not go there. In this particular case, you should have used the Priority Mail Express USPS to get it to arrive on the 25th.
ShipStation created this infographic to show the difference between the various options on the market. Take a look below and create an appropriate attack plan.