UPS holiday schedule in Canada

UPS holidays from October 2026 to January 2027

Boxing Day falls on a Saturday in 2026, so UPS runs no Saturday service that day and closes across Canada on the Monday after. Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve are business days, with a limit on air pickups. UPS marks some dates “subject to change” and notes that municipalities can declare local holidays that its list leaves out; it points to 1-800-PICK-UPS for those.

What closed and limited mean at UPS

UPS Express Critical, UPS’s urgent service booked by phone, runs every day of the year, holidays included. UPS’s holiday page also says its service guarantee is suspended for all services within Canada, with no end date given.

The UPS Store and Access Points on holidays

The UPS Store doesn’t always close on the same days as UPS. On Remembrance Day, UPS runs a normal service while The UPS Store locations are listed as closed. UPS’s 2026 operations schedule also listed them as closed on Family Day, Victoria Day, Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day, the Civic Holiday and Truth and Reconciliation Day, and on the Monday it observed Boxing Day, with a note that this varies by province and location.

UPS Access Point locations are independent businesses inside other stores, so they keep their own hours. UPS’s holiday page has a lookup for a location’s hours on other holidays, and each location’s page in the UPS location directory shows its hours. A parcel dropped off on a day UPS is closed moves on its next business day.

Is UPS open on Remembrance Day?

Yes. UPS lists November 11 as “normal service, subject to change,” and its operations schedule adds that some remote locations may be closed. The other carriers each close in at least part of the country:

UPS holidays in 2027

UPS hasn’t published its 2027 dates beyond January 2. Its 2026 schedule shows which holidays it keeps and where, so the table gives each 2027 holiday’s date with what UPS did on it in 2026. Treat it as a guide until UPS posts 2027.

In 2027, Christmas falls on a Saturday and Boxing Day on a Sunday. UPS hasn’t said which weekdays it will close for them. In 2026 it also closed in St. John’s for the Regatta, a date set by the weather.

Is UPS open on other holidays?

UPS holidays in ProtonShip delivery estimates

Where a carrier gives no delivery date of its own, ProtonShip counts its business days with that carrier’s published holidays, province by province. A UPS parcel in transit over Remembrance Day isn’t held back a day, and one heading for Quebec on Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day is. For dates UPS hasn’t published yet, the estimate uses Canada’s national holidays.