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If you thought August was early so that stores come out their Halloween displays , so you probably don't want to hear that Christmas decorations Already hit the shelves in early September. And it seems that the postal service of the United States (USPS) has obtained the memo because they have just published their dates of sending and vacation shipping in 2025.

In relation: Prices n ° 1 affect your mail, says the USPS .

Sending packages during the holidays will be more expensive this year.

As Best life recently reported, the USPS is Increase mail prices For the holidays. The changes will be in force from October 5, 2025 to January 18, 2026. Some of the most relevant retail price increases are:

• USPS Ground Advantage Service: Increase from 40 to 50 cents, depending on the publication area
• Priority email: increase from 40 to 90 cents
• Priority Mail Express: increase from $ 1.10 to $ 2.00

Here are the USPS vacation shipping times.

If you want your packages to arrive at this December 25 of this year, here is when you need to get them by post, according to a September USPS ::

• USPS Ground Service Advantage: December 17
• First class email: December 17
• Priority email: December 18
• Priority Mail Express: December 20

These dates apply to 48 American states. The only difference for Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the American territories is that the deadline for the USPS Ground Advantage service is December 16. For international and military deadlines, you can Visit this page .

It should be noted that this year's deadlines are all a day earlier than last year, partly partly to what the USPS gets rid of its guaranteed night delivery service, Priority Mail Express the next day, last April.

In relation: USPS Farm more than 20 post offices this month .

Holiday stamps are also there.

The USPS also reveals its Forever Stamps Nice and early holidays. Collection of four of this year Joy of vacation The stamps are inspired by the secular decoration tradition for the season with fruits, flowers and greenery.

Other recently published stamps include those who honor President Jimmy Carter and humanitarian Elie Wiesel .

And Operation Santa now accepts the letters.

Finally, the USPS also announced that its Santa operation accepts children's letters across the country on September 15.

Here is how the program works: families in need of mail in their vacation wishes, and generous participants can then "adopt" these letters and respond to anonymous requests. Here are the key dates of the program this year:

• November 3: registration opens for adopters
• November 17: the adoption of letters begins
• December 6: Last call to submit letters
• December 13: Last call for adopters to send gifts

"For more than a century, USPS Santa operation has gathered communities to make the holidays brighter," said Sheila Holman , USPS marketing vice-president, in a press release . "Each year, we receive much more letters than we have adopters, and this year, we want to change this - in particular by encouraging participants to adopt family letters, which makes it possible to achieve the wishes of an entire household at a time."