FedEx holiday schedule

FedEx holidays for the rest of 2026

Boxing Day falls on Saturday, December 26 in 2026. FedEx lists that day as closed and also closes on Monday, December 28 in its place, so a parcel in transit over Christmas loses two weekdays, December 25 and December 28. FedEx says its dates are subject to change and that it posts any update on its holiday page.

FedEx on Remembrance Day

Remembrance Day, Wednesday, November 11, is the holiday where the carriers differ most. FedEx closes in Nova Scotia only and works as usual everywhere else, so a FedEx parcel to Ontario, Quebec or the West keeps moving that day. Each carrier’s own schedule for the day:

The Canada Post holiday schedule and each carrier page have the rest of their dates.

Last days to ship FedEx for Christmas 2026

FedEx’s ship-by dates for arrival by December 24, 2026, within Canada to most metropolitan areas:

The dates leave out parcels from the western provinces, Thunder Bay included, to Atlantic Canada, and FedEx asks for extra days outside major cities. The Ground dates assume a regular scheduled pickup, or a drop-off at a staffed FedEx location. Every carrier’s deadlines are in our 2026 holiday shipping dates.

FedEx holidays in 2027

FedEx’s schedule lists New Year’s Day 2027 and nothing after it yet. Until it adds the rest, the closest guide is what FedEx did on each holiday in 2026:

In 2027 Christmas falls on a Saturday and Boxing Day on a Sunday. When Boxing Day fell on a Saturday in 2026, FedEx closed the following Monday as well; it hasn’t said which weekdays it will close at the end of 2027.

How a FedEx holiday moves a delivery date

FedEx counts transit in business days, Monday to Friday except its holidays, and a delivery that would land on a holiday is rescheduled for the next business day. A provincial holiday only counts where FedEx closes for it: at the origin it delays the pickup, and at the destination it delays the delivery. Worked out with FedEx’s published dates:

FedEx Ground also delivers to homes on some Saturdays in six provinces, which can bring a parcel in earlier than the business-day count. Our FedEx weekend delivery guide explains where, and the delivery time calculator counts each carrier’s holidays for any two postal codes.

Are FedEx locations open on holidays?

FedEx Ship Centres close on statutory holidays, lieu days included. FedEx Authorized ShipCentre and FedEx OnSite counters, such as those inside Staples, Kent and Super C stores, keep their store’s own hours and closures, which FedEx says to check on the store’s website or in its location finder. FedEx doesn’t publish separate holiday hours.

On a day FedEx is closed, its operations don’t run, so a parcel left at an open store counter or in a drop box goes out on the next day FedEx works there. See FedEx drop-off and pickup for the location types and their cut-off times.

Shipping around FedEx’s holidays with ProtonShip

ProtonShip quotes cover UniUni, Purolator, UPS and FedEx, and each keeps its own holidays. Every quote’s delivery estimate counts each carrier’s published closures in the provinces it ships from and to, and a live FedEx quote shows FedEx’s own date for your addresses. On Remembrance Day, for example, a FedEx or UPS service can be the one that still arrives on time.

Questions about FedEx holidays