If you haven't mailed off your parcels for Christmas yet, you may have to pay a little extra to have them delivered by Christmas.
The deadline to have parcels delivered by Christmas was Thursday, but spokesman John Hamilton says if they are in the mail by the end of the day Friday, they still might make it. Otherwise, the deadline to have them delivered by Express Post is December 22, and December 23 by Priority Mail.
The deadline to send a Christmas card to the U.S. is Friday, but gift-givers still have until next week to send a card through regular mail delivery inside Canada. The deadline to send a card outside Ontario is next Tuesday, December 17. December 18 is the deadline to send a card to someone living in Ontario; and to send a card across town, it's December 19.
Hamilton says the parcel delivery business has grown every year as more and more Canadians purchase gifts online. "We're delivering much more than we have in the past," he says. "On any given day we deliver over the holidays about 900,000 parcels or more. We have broken through a million. We process over 1,200 parcels a minute."