FedEx holidays 2026: closed days and modified service days
Three closed days. Four modified ones. Plan handoffs around both.
FedEx holidays at year end are Thanksgiving, Christmas Day and New Year's Day, when FedEx is closed; the day before Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve run modified service, and GoatLabels does not change that schedule: it prices FedEx beside USPS and UPS, one price per rate shown before you buy.
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Which days is FedEx closed for the 2026 holidays?
FedEx is closed on Thanksgiving (Thursday, November 26, 2026), Christmas Day (Friday, December 25, 2026) and New Year's Day (Friday, January 1, 2027), and it runs modified service on November 25, Black Friday (November 27), Christmas Eve (December 24) and New Year's Eve (December 31). Every other day FedEx names in the season is listed as open.
FedEx facts, read on FedEx's pages
- FedEx is closed on Thursday, November 26, 2026 (Thanksgiving), Friday, December 25, 2026 (Christmas Day) and Friday, January 1, 2027 (New Year's Day). FedEx Custom Critical is listed as open on each of those days. (FedEx holiday schedule page)
- FedEx lists modified service on Wednesday, November 25, Friday, November 27 (Black Friday), Thursday, December 24 (Christmas Eve) and Thursday, December 31 (New Year's Eve). Veterans Day, Wednesday, November 11, was also a modified service day and has passed. (FedEx holiday schedule page)
- Modified service is FedEx's term for early on-call pickups and early drop box pickups, including drop box closures, in some areas. On December 24 and December 31 it also covers modified Ground pickups. (FedEx holiday schedule page)
- FedEx Office is closed on November 26, December 25 and January 1 and keeps modified hours the day before each, with some locations closing early. The schedule covers FedEx's U.S. and international parcel and freight services except LTL freight. (FedEx holiday schedule page)
- Every FedEx holiday in this season falls inside FedEx's demand surcharge period: on Ground residential and Home Delivery residential packages the charge is $0.80 per package from November 23 to December 27, 2026 and $0.50 per package from December 28, 2026 to January 17, 2027. (FedEx demand surcharges page)
Page reviewed . We could not open FedEx's site that day, so each FedEx page cited here keeps its October 26, 2026 read date. The closed and modified days were matched against published summaries of FedEx's 2026 holiday schedule, and none differed. The FedEx Office column and the open days of December 23, December 28 and January 2 rest on the October 26 reading alone. Confirm on FedEx's page before you plan a handoff.
Published FedEx prices, fees and service windows are a benchmark, not what a GoatLabels label costs: a GoatLabels quote is one price per rate for your packed parcel, shown before you buy.
| Day | FedEx status | FedEx Office | What it means for a handoff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, Nov. 25 | Modified service | Modified hours | Pickups can run early in some areas. |
| Thursday, Nov. 26 (Thanksgiving) | Closed | Closed | No handoff. |
| Friday, Nov. 27 (Black Friday) | Modified service | Open | Pickups can run early in some areas. |
| Wednesday, Dec. 23 | Open | No note | Last listed Ground day on a 1-day lane for arrival by Dec. 24. |
| Thursday, Dec. 24 (Christmas Eve) | Modified service, including modified Ground pickups | Modified hours | Confirm the Ground pickup or drop off early. |
| Friday, Dec. 25 (Christmas Day) | Closed | Closed | No handoff. |
| Saturday, Dec. 26 | Open | No note | Check that your pickup runs on Saturday. |
| Monday, Dec. 28 | Open | No note | A regular day on FedEx's list. |
| Thursday, Dec. 31 (New Year's Eve) | Modified service, including modified Ground pickups | Modified hours | Confirm the Ground pickup or drop off early. |
| Friday, Jan. 1, 2027 (New Year's Day) | Closed | Closed | No handoff. |
| Saturday, Jan. 2, 2027 | Open | No note | Check that your pickup runs on Saturday. |
Status and FedEx Office columns from FedEx's Holiday Schedule and Last Days to Ship page, read ; the December 23 Ground note from the FedEx 2026 last days to ship PDF. The handoff column is our reading, not FedEx wording. Days not shown have no specific FedEx note.
Each closed day has a modified day in front of it, and Thanksgiving has one behind it as well. This page covers the year-end season only; for FedEx holidays in the rest of the year, read FedEx's own schedule.
Does FedEx deliver on Black Friday?
FedEx is open on Black Friday, November 27, 2026, with modified service, so it is a working day for FedEx and not a holiday closure. The same status applies to Wednesday, November 25, the day before Thanksgiving.
What changes is the pickup side. FedEx's footnote for those two days names early on-call pickups and early drop box pickups, including drop box closures, in some areas. It names no change to delivery and gives no clock time for an early pickup.
For a shop running a Black Friday sale, the risk is a driver who arrives before the day's orders are packed. Print labels early, and if you rely on a drop box, use a staffed FedEx location instead. Published FedEx Ground prices by weight and zone are on FedEx Ground rates.
Does FedEx deliver on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve?
FedEx runs on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve: it lists Thursday, December 24, 2026 and Thursday, December 31, 2026 as modified service days, and neither is a closed day. On these two days the modification is wider than on Black Friday: FedEx adds modified Ground pickups to the early on-call and drop box pickups.
FedEx's 2026 last days to ship are set so a package is scheduled to arrive by December 24, and FedEx says those dates can change. For FedEx Ground and FedEx Home Delivery the last day runs from Thursday, December 17 at 5 days in transit to Wednesday, December 23 at 1. Each is the last day the carrier lists, a recommendation and not a promise.
The full list by service, with Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico, is on FedEx holiday shipping deadlines, and USPS, UPS and FedEx sit in one table on holiday shipping deadlines for every carrier. A late arrival is not refunded on every service: FedEx's money-back policy covers only some of them, and the deadlines page sets out which.
Is FedEx open on Thanksgiving, Christmas Day or New Year's Day?
No: FedEx is closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas Day and New Year's Day, and FedEx Office is closed on the same three days. The one service FedEx lists as open on each of them is FedEx Custom Critical.
All three closed days fall late in the week: Thanksgiving on a Thursday, Christmas Day and New Year's Day on Fridays. FedEx lists Saturday, December 26 and Saturday, January 2, 2027 as open, but an open FedEx is not the same as a pickup at your door, so check your own pickup schedule or the hours of your drop-off point.
FedEx Office keeps modified hours on the day before each holiday, and FedEx says some locations close early, so hand over in the morning on November 25, December 24 and December 31.
What does a FedEx closed day do to handling time and transit days?
A FedEx closed day pushes the handoff of any order that was due to leave that day to the next day FedEx is open, and it cannot be a delivery day for a parcel already in transit.
FedEx counts Ground transit in business days: typically 1 to 5 within the contiguous U.S., and 3 to 7 to and from Alaska and Hawaii. Its holiday chart shows the counting: five days in transit from Thursday, December 17 reaches Thursday, December 24 only when Saturday and Sunday are skipped. So a Ground lane that crosses a closed day needs at least one more calendar day in your plan. For the date on a given ZIP pair, use the FedEx Ground transit map rather than a count of your own.
Example: a shop with one business day of handling hands each order to FedEx on the next day FedEx is not closed.
| Order placed | Handed to FedEx | FedEx status | What the shop does |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, Nov. 25 | Friday, Nov. 27 | Closed Nov. 26, modified service Nov. 27 | Loses one day to Thanksgiving; packs early on Friday. |
| Wednesday, Dec. 23 | Thursday, Dec. 24 | Modified service, modified Ground pickups | Confirms the Ground pickup the day before. |
| Thursday, Dec. 24 | Saturday, Dec. 26 or Monday, Dec. 28 | Closed Dec. 25; Dec. 26 and Dec. 28 listed as open | Saturday only if its pickup runs that day. |
| Thursday, Dec. 31 | Saturday, Jan. 2 or the shop's next pickup day | Closed Jan. 1; Jan. 2 listed as open | Tells buyers the order leaves after New Year's Day. |
FedEx status from FedEx's Holiday Schedule and Last Days to Ship page, read ; the order days and the one-day handling time are the shop's own plan.
If your store shows a handling time, lengthen it for the order days that run into a closure, or say in the cart that the order leaves after the holiday. The math for turning a carrier date into a last order day is on holiday order cutoff dates by processing time.
How do the FedEx holidays compare with USPS and UPS?
All three carriers stop on Thanksgiving, Christmas Day and New Year's Day; they differ on the days around them, where FedEx runs modified service, UPS limits pickups and USPS has no holiday.
| Day | FedEx | UPS | USPS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday, Nov. 26 (Thanksgiving) | Closed | No pickup or delivery | Postal holiday |
| Friday, Nov. 27 (Black Friday) | Modified service | Normal pickup and delivery | Not a postal holiday |
| Thursday, Dec. 24 (Christmas Eve) | Modified service, including modified Ground pickups | Normal delivery; pickup for Air and International Air only, prearranged by Dec. 18 | Not a postal holiday |
| Friday, Dec. 25 (Christmas Day) | Closed | No pickup or delivery | Postal holiday |
| Thursday, Dec. 31 (New Year's Eve) | Modified service, including modified Ground pickups | Air and International Air only; pickup prearranged by Dec. 28 | Not a postal holiday |
| Friday, Jan. 1, 2027 (New Year's Day) | Closed | No pickup or delivery | Postal holiday |
FedEx from its holiday schedule page; UPS from the UPS holiday schedule page and its 2026 year-end schedule; USPS from the USPS 2026 and 2027 holidays lists. FedEx and UPS pages read ; USPS page fetched .
Each carrier has its own page here: USPS holidays 2026 and UPS holidays 2026, with all three day by day in carrier holiday schedules 2026, day by day.
Do FedEx fees change around the holidays?
Yes: FedEx charges demand surcharges through the whole holiday stretch, with the higher tier from November 23 to December 27, 2026 and a lower tier from December 28, 2026 to January 17, 2027.
So every FedEx holiday on this page sits inside a surcharge period. Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day fall in the higher tier, and New Year's Eve and New Year's Day in the lower one. The residential Ground and Home Delivery amount is in the dated block at the top of this page; the other rows, and what a shop under 20,000 packages a week pays, are on FedEx demand surcharges 2026, and every carrier is compared on peak season surcharges for 2026. When a closure removes a transit day and an order needs an air service instead, see when to pay for faster shipping.
How does GoatLabels fit around the FedEx holiday schedule?
GoatLabels does not change the FedEx schedule or promise a delivery day; it prices each service for your packed parcel before you buy, so you can see what is still open on another carrier.
What GoatLabels does and does not do. GoatLabels rate-shops USPS, UPS and FedEx on every domestic parcel, and DHL on international lanes, from one account, with one price per rate shown before you buy. Its FedEx services are Ground, Home Delivery, Express Saver, 2Day, Standard Overnight, Priority Overnight and First Overnight; which appear depends on the lane and the parcel. Set a ship date up to 14 days ahead, so a label for the day after a closure can be bought before it, and schedule a carrier pickup from the dashboard or the API for labels already bought, where the carrier offers one; drop-off is the default.
GoatLabels cannot make FedEx collect on a closed day, and FedEx Ground Economy is not sold on GoatLabels. Void an unused label and, after the carrier accepts the void, the credit posts back to your prepaid wallet as spendable balance, not a card refund. GoatLabels does not offer hazmat, freight or LTL, and it cannot use your own negotiated carrier accounts; perishables ship at the shipper's risk on a 2-day or overnight service and live animals only on a next-day service, under each carrier's rules.
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FedEx holidays, answered
- Is FedEx closed on Black Friday 2026?
- No. FedEx lists Friday, November 27, 2026 as a modified service day, not a closed day. Modified service means early on-call pickups and early drop box pickups, including drop box closures, in some areas (fedex.com, read October 26, 2026).
- Does FedEx deliver on Christmas Eve 2026?
- Yes, FedEx runs on Christmas Eve: it lists Thursday, December 24, 2026 as a modified service day, not a closed day, and its 2026 last days to ship are set for packages scheduled to arrive by December 24. The changes FedEx publishes for the day are to pickups and drop boxes, including modified Ground pickups (fedex.com, read October 26, 2026). Treat any arrival on December 24 as scheduled, not promised.
- Is FedEx open the day after Christmas?
- FedEx's holiday schedule lists Saturday, December 26, 2026 and Monday, December 28, 2026 as open (fedex.com, read October 26, 2026). Whether your own pickup runs on a Saturday depends on your pickup schedule or drop-off point.
- Is FedEx Office open on the holidays?
- FedEx Office is closed on November 26, December 25 and January 1, and FedEx says its locations keep modified hours the day before each, with some closing early.
- Does GoatLabels change the FedEx holiday schedule?
- No. The schedule is FedEx's, and GoatLabels makes no delivery promise. It rate-shops USPS, UPS and FedEx on every domestic parcel, and DHL on international lanes, with one price per rate shown before you buy.
Related reading: FedEx holiday shipping deadlines, holiday shipping deadlines for every carrier, FedEx demand surcharges 2026, FedEx Ground rates, USPS holidays 2026, UPS holidays 2026, holiday order cutoff dates by processing time, carrier holiday schedules 2026, day by day.
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