Holiday shipping countdown panel 2026 (daily, USPS + FedEx)
Derived daily panel (2026-12-01..2026-12-24, per carrier, domestic): on each date, how many services are still open vs closed, the cheapest and fastest still-open service, the next closure and days to it, whether the standard-shipping window is still open (the date a shop can still promise Christmas at standard rates), and a documented 0-100 urgency_score = round(100*(0.5*closure_ratio + 0.5*(1-min(1,days_to_final_cutoff/24)))). A shop joins this on order date + carrier to set 'order by' promises and flag at-risk shipments. Derived deterministically in code from the curated cutoff table (USPS lower-48 scope + FedEx domestic); 48 rows. Annual snapshot, yearly cadence.
- Rows
- 48
- Columns
- 16
- Source cadence
- Yearly
- Last refreshed
- Sep 29, 2026
- Theme
- economy
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| panel_id | string | Deterministic primary key: <CARRIER>-<panel_date>. |
| panel_date | date | Calendar date the panel row describes (ISO date). Join key with order/ship date. |
| carrier | string | Carrier: USPS or FedEx. Join key. |
| year | integer | Holiday season year. (unit: year) |
| services_open | integer | Domestic services whose send-by date has not yet passed on panel_date. |
| services_closed | integer | Domestic services whose send-by date already passed on panel_date. |
| cheapest_open_service | string | Slowest (cheapest) still-open service on panel_date. |
| fastest_open_service | string | Fastest still-open service on panel_date. |
| next_closure_date | date | Earliest send-by date among still-open services (ISO date); equals panel_date when no services remain open. |
| next_closure_service | string | Service closing on next_closure_date. |
| days_to_next_closure | integer | Days from panel_date to next_closure_date. (unit: days) |
| days_to_final_cutoff | integer | Days from panel_date to the carrier's last cutoff. (unit: days) |
| standard_window_open | integer | 1 when at least one economy/standard-tier service is still open — the date a shop can still promise Christmas delivery at standard rates. |
| last_standard_date | date | Latest send-by date among still-open economy/standard services (ISO date); null when no standard-tier service is still open. |
| urgency_score | integer | 0-100 urgency = round(100*(0.5*closure_ratio + 0.5*(1-min(1,days_to_final_cutoff/24)))); closure_ratio = services_closed / total domestic services. |
| row_hash | string | Deterministic row key: first 16 hex chars of sha256 over canonical row values. |
First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.
| panel_id | panel_date | carrier | year | services_open | services_closed | cheapest_open_service | fastest_open_service | next_closure_date | next_closure_service | days_to_next_closure | days_to_final_cutoff | standard_window_open | last_standard_date | urgency_score | row_hash |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| USPS-2026-12-01 | 2026-12-01 | USPS | 2,026 | 4 | 0 | USPS Ground Advantage | Priority Mail Express | 2026-12-17 | USPS Ground Advantage | 16 | 18 | 1 | 2026-12-17 | 12 | bab2abc4b644b730 |
| FedEx-2026-12-01 | 2026-12-01 | FedEx | 2,026 | 10 | 0 | FedEx Ground Economy | FedEx SameDay | 2026-12-15 | FedEx Ground Economy | 14 | 23 | 1 | 2026-12-23 | 2 | 2a7fbc727ac3735d |
| USPS-2026-12-02 | 2026-12-02 | USPS | 2,026 | 4 | 0 | USPS Ground Advantage | Priority Mail Express | 2026-12-17 | USPS Ground Advantage | 15 | 17 | 1 | 2026-12-17 | 15 | c299db91176207bb |
| FedEx-2026-12-02 | 2026-12-02 | FedEx | 2,026 | 10 | 0 | FedEx Ground Economy | FedEx SameDay | 2026-12-15 | FedEx Ground Economy | 13 | 22 | 1 | 2026-12-23 | 4 | a25d3fa94b75cb35 |
| USPS-2026-12-03 | 2026-12-03 | USPS | 2,026 | 4 | 0 | USPS Ground Advantage | Priority Mail Express | 2026-12-17 | USPS Ground Advantage | 14 | 16 | 1 | 2026-12-17 | 17 | f036093f7e66e0c6 |
| FedEx-2026-12-03 | 2026-12-03 | FedEx | 2,026 | 10 | 0 | FedEx Ground Economy | FedEx SameDay | 2026-12-15 | FedEx Ground Economy | 12 | 21 | 1 | 2026-12-23 | 6 | c9db8aa6b0d3d897 |
| USPS-2026-12-04 | 2026-12-04 | USPS | 2,026 | 4 | 0 | USPS Ground Advantage | Priority Mail Express | 2026-12-17 | USPS Ground Advantage | 13 | 15 | 1 | 2026-12-17 | 19 | 67ba103bb81484bc |
| FedEx-2026-12-04 | 2026-12-04 | FedEx | 2,026 | 10 | 0 | FedEx Ground Economy | FedEx SameDay | 2026-12-15 | FedEx Ground Economy | 11 | 20 | 1 | 2026-12-23 | 8 | c0f762eb8908b9b4 |
| USPS-2026-12-05 | 2026-12-05 | USPS | 2,026 | 4 | 0 | USPS Ground Advantage | Priority Mail Express | 2026-12-17 | USPS Ground Advantage | 12 | 14 | 1 | 2026-12-17 | 21 | 80c763547c33cc74 |
| FedEx-2026-12-05 | 2026-12-05 | FedEx | 2,026 | 10 | 0 | FedEx Ground Economy | FedEx SameDay | 2026-12-15 | FedEx Ground Economy | 10 | 19 | 1 | 2026-12-23 | 10 | 31c1f7b5ce0f608d |
- Current
20260929T081311Z-b4bc17a9a883 · sha256 b4bc17a9a883…
48 rows · first snapshot
Point any LLM at the metadata endpoint — the documentation above is machine-readable too (JSON-LD + Croissant).
curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/carrier_holiday_cutoffs/us_carrier_holiday_shipping_countdown_daily" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/carrier_holiday_cutoffs/us_carrier_holiday_shipping_countdown_daily").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")
# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
print(row)API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/carrier_holiday_cutoffs/us_carrier_holiday_shipping_countdown_daily
Tip: fetch /llms.txt for the full machine-readable catalog.
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USPS + FedEx 2026 holiday shipping schedules (agent-curated). (2026). Holiday shipping countdown panel 2026 (daily, USPS + FedEx) [Data set, snapshot 20260929T081311Z-b4bc17a9a883, sha256 b4bc17a9a883]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-09-30, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/carrier_holiday_cutoffs/us_carrier_holiday_shipping_countdown_daily?snapshot=20260929T081311Z-b4bc17a9a883
@misc{dz_carrier_holiday_cutoffs_us_carrier_holid_b4bc17a9,
title = {{Holiday shipping countdown panel 2026 (daily, USPS + FedEx)}},
author = {{USPS + FedEx 2026 holiday shipping schedules (agent-curated)}},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Datazimuts},
howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/carrier_holiday_cutoffs/us_carrier_holiday_shipping_countdown_daily?snapshot=20260929T081311Z-b4bc17a9a883}},
note = {Snapshot 20260929T081311Z-b4bc17a9a883, sha256 b4bc17a9a8830232a5a4e9bdf00919ed04fc56d2ddaa17650f5c50cc7a626594; accessed 2026-09-30}
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