http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/BeyondTheBag/17643 Have loved ones out of town you're shopping for? If you're like me, always running a bit late as I'm searching around town for the perfect gift and stressing if it will arrive on time.   According to the USPS(http://www.usps.com/holiday/mailing-holiday-deadlines.htm), you need to mail it by December 15th if it's a parcel post package or by December 20th if it's a card or priority mail to make if by Christmas within the US. If you are mailing to a millitary base or internationally, deadlines are December 4th or 11th. Check the guidelines on the USPS site.   The Postal Service expects to deliver about 20 billion cards, packages and letters between Thanksgiving and Christmas. It predicts that the volume processes each day will reach a peak of about 1 billion on the busiest day, December 17th. (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/5317123.html) Yikes!!!   Happy Thanksgiving! --Mary Russo Have loved ones out of town you're shopping for? If you're like me, always running a bit late as I'm searching around town for the perfect gift and stressing if it will arrive on time.   According to the USPS(http://www.usps.com/holiday/mailing-holiday-deadlines.htm), you need to mail it by December 15th if it's a parcel post package or by December 20th if it's a card or priority mail to make if by Christmas within the US. If you are mailing to a millitary base or internationally, deadlines are December 4th or 11th. Check the guidelines on the USPS site.   The Postal Service expects to deliver about 20 billion cards, packages and letters between Thanksgiving and Christmas. It predicts that the volume processes each day will reach a peak of about 1 billion on the busiest day, December 17th. (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/5317123.html) Yikes!!!   Happy Thanksgiving! --Mary Russo en-us Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:23:57 PST