Need it there by Christmas? Here are the shipping deadlines

The busiest shipping season of the year is underway, and the US Postal Service is issuing a reminder about shipping deadlines.

Officials say you’ll need to send off your packages and letters three days earlier than last year to meet the service’s ground shipping delivery cutoff date of December 17.

The date for Priority Mail is December 19, but they say you can ship via Priority Mail Express service as late as the 23rd.