Here are your Christmas shipping deadlines

Holiday shipping deadlines With less than two weeks before Christmas, the holiday shipping deadlines are quickly approaching. CTV's Peter Szperling reports.

With less than two weeks before Christmas, time is running out to ship packages and greetings cards to make sure they're under the tree on Christmas morning.

It's a busy time for Canada Post and couriers. At the Ottawa Purolator sorting facility on Hawthorne Road, an average of 30,000 packages are expected to go through each day throughout the holiday season.

"All the sorting takes place here and gets shuttled out to other locations within the city," says Jason Belgrave, Purolator Director of Operations for Northeast Ontario.

Packages, ranging from things you buy online to those special gifts all come through the facility.

"Christmas packages, food, cakes made by grandma and grandpa, they come through all the time," he says.

Santa might be able to deliver all of his presents on Christmas Eve, but for anything you're sending, couriers need a head start. If you want that gift to be under the tree on time, Belgrave says to ship your package earlier than later. "

The key date for people to keep in mind, if you're shipping Purolator Express, is December 21st," he says.

Dec. 21 is Purolator's deadline for next-day deliver to destinations in Canada or United States. If shipping by Purolator Ground to the U.S., the deadline is Dec. 13.

Other international deadlines for Purolator:

Canada Post

Here are the deadlines to send cards and packages within Canada to arrive in time for Christmas.

Packages:

Priority and Xpresspost:

Regular Parcel:

Sending Cards:

Shipping deadlines for sending cards internationally have passed.

When to send international packages to popular destinations via Xpresspost

FedEx

Within Canada to most metropolitan areas:

Canada to U.S.

UPS

Canada Domestic:

Shipments to certain destinations may require an earlier ship date

Canada to the U.S.