The holiday season is here and with an increase of online shopping, porch pirates are at the ready.The U.S. Postal Service offered some pointers on getting packages to loved ones safely and important deadlines for shipping packages.Latanya Degraffenreed is the manager of post office operations in Modesto and surrounding areas.”Check it early and check daily,” she said. “If you have a lockbox, just make sure you check it. Pick up your packages if there’s someone home. If not, have a designated area where you can communicate to your carrier where those packages should go.”There are also other steps people can take to prevent theft or other issues. “We also have a program or something you can sign up for called informed delivery. This allows you to see your packages your mail that are coming to you in advance,” Degraffenreed said. Said Said owns an online store that ships products. “We do a lot of customer messages. We let them know that, ‘Hey, your package might be delayed.’ That isn’t due to our fault. We ship the packages same day, but maybe there’s a lot of efforts on the USPS and or a lot of packages that slows it down,” Said said. While shipping early is recommended, here are some deadlines to get packages delivered in time for Christmas: USPS Ground Advantage service: Dec. 18Priority mail service: Dec. 19 Priority mail express service: Dec. 21 For those not using the U.S. Postal Service, the holiday deadline for FedEx is Dec. 17 and the deadline for UPS is Dec. 19.See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter
The holiday season is here and with an increase of online shopping, porch pirates are at the ready.
The U.S. Postal Service offered some pointers on getting packages to loved ones safely and important deadlines for shipping packages.
Latanya Degraffenreed is the manager of post office operations in Modesto and surrounding areas.
“Check it early and check daily,” she said. “If you have a lockbox, just make sure you check it. Pick up your packages if there’s someone home. If not, have a designated area where you can communicate to your carrier where those packages should go.”
There are also other steps people can take to prevent theft or other issues.
“We also have a program or something you can sign up for called informed delivery. This allows you to see your packages [and] your mail that are coming to you in advance,” Degraffenreed said.
Said Said owns an online store that ships products.
“We do a lot of customer messages. We let them know that, ‘Hey, your package might be delayed.’ That isn’t due to our fault. We ship the packages same day, but maybe there’s a lot of efforts on the USPS and or a lot of packages that slows it down,” Said said.
While shipping early is recommended, here are some deadlines to get packages delivered in time for Christmas:
- USPS Ground Advantage service: Dec. 18
- Priority mail service: Dec. 19
- Priority mail express service: Dec. 21
For those not using the U.S. Postal Service, the holiday deadline for FedEx is Dec. 17 and the deadline for UPS is Dec. 19.
See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter