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Our CFH deadlines:

1. Christmas cards must be received by Nov 14th so we can get them packed up and out in time for them to be written on and sent back home by Christmas.
2. If you expect to be close to or past that date, or if you’re having a cardmaking party later on, you CAN make “wintery” cards that we can still send out to be used in January/February if they don’t arrive in time for Christmas. (Snow, winter wishes, warm thoughts, that kind of thing.) Any of the definitively Christmas ones that come to us too late will be stored for next year.
3. Christmas AnyHero cards can still be sent to us until Dec 1st. You can send just one if you like! PLEASE CONTACT THE SHIPPER FIRST so you can find out if there are more boxes going out from that shipper in time for Christmas; we’ll be slowing down shipping while we prepare for our own holiday celebrations with our families.
4. Valentine cards must be received by our shippers by January 9th. Generic “love you” type cards after that can still be sent to make it in time, so if you’re getting close to that date, you might consider “love” and not “valentine” cards.

For those who mail letters and packages to military contacts that need to be there for Christmas, but not in order to be mailed back (like CFH cards), here is the mailing deadline schedule from the PO:

For military mail addressed to APO/FPO AE zips 090-098 (except 093); AA zips 340; and AP zips 962-966:

1. Express Mail: Dec. 18
2. First-Class Mail (letters/cards and priority mail): Dec. 11
3. Parcel Airlift Mail: Dec. 4
4. Parcel Post: Nov. 13

For military mail addressed to APO/FPO AE ZIP 093:

1. Express mail Military Service: N/A
2. First-Class Letters/Cards/Priority Mail: Dec. 4
3. Parcel Airlift Mail: Dec. 1
4. Space Available Mail: Nov. 21
5. Parcel Post: Nov. 13