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Have an important package to send off? While United Parcel Service (UPS) is one of the country’s largest shipping companies, even they need to take a day off from time to time. Make sure you’re familiar with their hours and the UPS holiday schedule to ensure your packages arrive in time.

UPS Holiday Schedule 2019

Everyone needs a break for the holiday. The UPS holiday schedule for the rest of 2019 includes:

May 27th (Memorial Day)
July 4th (Independence Day)
September 2nd (Labor Day)
November 28 (Thanksgiving Day)
December 25th (Christmas Day)
January 1st, 2020 (New Year’s Day)

UPS does not deliver on any of the days above unless you have sent an emergency shipment by UPS Express Critical. Otherwise, deliveries resume the day after the holiday.

Consumers have asked about a number of other holidays and how shipping is impacted. Keep these in mind throughout this and every year:

Martin Luther King Jr, Day – no schedule changes.
Valentine’s Day (Feb 14th) – no schedule changes. The company also offers extra tips and advice to ensure your sweetheart’s package arrives on time.
Presidents Day – no schedule changes.
Mother’s Day – no schedule changes, but be mindful of the fact that Mother’s Day is always on a Sunday, so there are already limited delivery options and hours.
Columbus Day – no schedule changes.
Veterans Day – no schedule changes for UPS pickup and delivery, but some UPS stores may have altered hours.
Day After Thanksgiving – regular pickup and delivery continues as per the normal schedule, but UPS Freight and UPS Forwarding services are not available.
Christmas Eve – UPS delivers in all areas on Christmas Eve, but some services are limited or must be arranged for in advance. Pickup services are not available.
New Year’s Eve – The only packages delivered on New Year’s Eve are UPS Air and International Air.

UPS Regular Hours

The standard hours of operation for UPS vary from location to location. You can search the website for the location nearest you here. You’ll find there are a number of drop box locations, usually within local businesses. You can also do business with UPS in retail stores like Staples, at UPS Customer Service locations, and at The UPS Store.

UPS offers an easy-to-read schedule of holiday operations, for both major and minor days, on their website. You can check out the full 2019 schedule to see which services and stores are available.

UPS Shipping Options

UPS offers a wide variety of shipping services designed to meet residential consumer and business needs, domestic and international. Their global network is one of the most complex in the world, with integrated technology solutions designed to make sure customers can track their packages from door to door, no matter what services they’ve chosen.

UPS Domestic Shipping Options

UPS Express Critical
Coyote Truckload and Coyote Intermodal
UPS Ground
UPS Hundredweight Service
UPS Next Day Air Early
UPS Next Day Air Freight NGS and UPS Next Day Air Freight
UPS Next Day Air, UPS Next Day Air Saver, and UPS 2nd Day Air AM
UPS 2nd Day Air Freight and UPS 2nd Day Air Freight NGS
UPS 2nd Day Air
UPS 3 Day Freight NGS and UPS 3 Day Freight
UPS Standard LTL
UPS 3 Day Select
UPS Ground with Freight Pricing
UPS Air Freight Consolidated
UPS Standard

UPS International Shipping Options

UPS Express Critical – International
UPS Worldwide Express Plus and UPS Worldwide Express Shipping
UPS Worldwide Express Freight Midday
UPS Air Freight Premium Direct
UPS Freight LTL Transportation
UPS Air Freight Direct
UPS Worldwide Express Freight and UPS Worldwide Saver
UPS Worldwide Express NA1
UPS Worldwide Expedited Ground Freight and UPS Worldwide Expedited
UPS Worldwide Expedited Air Freight
UPS 3 Day Select from Canada

There are tons of options, whether your package needs to be there the next day or in a week. UPS caters to businesses of all types, too; even offering refrigerated shipping options for flowers, candies, and other edibles or products that require temperature control. They also offer a number of options for insuring packages, to protect you in case of an accident or loss while in transit. While UPS strives to get all packages from point A to point B, accidents can happen with any carrier.

Don’t forget, UPS offers a litany of services for consumers and business owners alike. You can use the website to track your packages (sometimes with a real-time map), make changes to your home delivery schedule, and work directly with representatives to better understand the inbound and outbound needs of your business.

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Amazon is a premiere online shopping destination. Many people, when they are searching for the perfect gift this season, will take a close look at the prices on Amazon and compare them to prices through other online stores. However, the company recently teased its consumers with a new possibility.

Amazon.com Drone

The company released a video of a new drone design that takes off and lands like a helicopter, but flies like a plane, and it will be delivering your Amazon Prime items. The drone is called Amazon Prime Air.

Videos of the drone were released nearly two years after the company made the announcement that it was going to use drones to deliver parcels to its customers. However, the drone that the company showcased in the video released on Sunday is far different from the one the company showed previously.

Amazon Prime Air will be carrying parcels fuselage rather than below the drone as they had previously discussed. The drone will rise about 400 feet then it will become a streamlined airplane. When it is ready to land, it does just that. It drops vertically, delivers the package, and then it rises vertically to return to its location.

While these things are a bit different from the first drone design, many speculate that the previous drone design will also probably continue. There will probably be a whole variety of designs for different environments.

Currently, the drones are only able to fly up to 15 miles. However, the drone is able to sense any obstacles in its way and may come in handy (in its current state) in a town-to-town basis.

When will the drones be up and running?

Now that Amazon has released designs and has proven its drone to be able to fly, there are still a few things that need to happen before the company is able to use tis drone. The United States Federal Aviation Administration is still deciding on whether or not they will allow commercial use of drones.

U.S. Federal Aviation Administration officials have yet to finalize any rules when it comes to commercial drones. However, proposed rules have said that retailers like Amazon.com would eb allowed to use the drones for deliveries if they followed certain limitations like a weight limit of 55 pounds and only daytime flights.

Amazon said that it had expected rules from the U.S. FAA by this year. However, the administration has still not been able to provide guidelines for this unprecedented delivery service.

“We will deploy when and where we have the regulatory support needed to safely realize our vision,” Amazon officials said. “We’re excited about this technology and one day using it to deliver packages to customers around the world in 30 minutes or less.”

Amazon will be providing free shipping for a majority of its items this holiday season. However, your packages won’t be delivered by drone (sorry). It won’t likely be too long before you’ll see a drone stop by your house to drop off your orders though.

UPS Holiday Schedule, Hours and Shipping Options 2019