Check out last days to send out holiday gifts
With Christmas and New Year’s Day around the corner, there’s no better time to send out those cards and packages then now. Here are deadlines for holiday goodies to be posted through three primary delivery services.
- United States Postal Service
Plant City Post Office
2501 Walden Woods Dr.
Plant City, FL 33566
813-719-6733.
Dover Post Office
14170 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Dover, FL 33527
813-707-0929
*Christmas Deadlines*
Domestic Service
• Retail Ground Service:
Wednesday, Dec. 15
• First-Class Mail: Friday, Dec. 17
• Priority Mail: Saturday, Dec. 18
• Priority Mail Express: Thursday, Dec. 23
On Christmas Eve – Friday, Dec. 24, the post office will be open from 8:30 a.m. to noon. This is the same time frame for all mail in the blue collection boxes to be accepted.
Mail will be delivered as usual on Christmas Eve – Friday, Dec. 24.
Post offices will be closed on Christmas Day – Saturday, Dec. 25.
*New Year’s Deadlines*
Mail will be picked up and delivered as usual on New Year’s Eve- Friday, Dec. 31. Post Offices will also be open on that day.
On New Year’s Day – Saturday, Jan. 1, Post Offices will be closed and mail will not be picked up or delivered.
2. UPS
Plant City Office
1808 James L. Redman Pkwy.
Plant City, FL 33563
(813) 754-5533
*Christmas Deadlines*
Domestic Service
• Ground Shipping: calculated by
cost, visit www.ups.com/ctc.
• 3-Day Select: Tuesday, Dec. 21.
• 2nd Day Air Service:
Wednesday, Dec. 22.
• Next Day Air Service: Thursday, Dec. 23.
All U.S. delivery services available on Christmas Eve – Friday, Dec. 24.
On Christmas- Saturday, Dec. 25, there will be no deliveries or pickups, and offices will be closed.
*New Year’s Deadlines*
• Normal pickup and delivery:
Monday, Dec. 27 to Thursday, Dec. 30
• Next Day Air: Thursday, Dec. 30
• Air Pickup: Friday, Dec. 31
3. FedEx.
PLANT CITY LOCATIONS
Dollar General
4709 W. Trapnell Rd.
Plant City, FL 33566
FedEx Ship Center
302 S. Collins St.
Plant City, FL 33563
Walgreens
1802 James L. Redman Pkwy.
Plant City, FL 33563
(800) 463-3339
Walgreens
2102 W. Baker St.
Plant City, FL 33563
(800) 463-3339
Dollar General
2410 Medulla Rd.
Plant City, FL 33566
(800) 463-3339
*Christmas Deadlines*
Domestic Service
• Ground Service: Wednesday, Dec. 15
• 3-Day Express: Tuesday, Dec. 21
• 2-Day Freight: Wednesday, Dec. 22
• 1-Day Freight: Thursday, Dec. 23
• Same Day: Friday, Dec. 24
*New Year’s Day Deadlines*
• Thursday, Dec. 29 will be the last
day for packages to be sent out.
