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Special delivery: For free shipping, order before the cut-off


With the holidays right around the corner, retailers are luring in e-buyers with ads for free shipping. But not all the deals are as stellar as they may seem. While some offer truly free shipping and short delivery times, others have high minimums to qualify for free shipping, or don't guarantee delivery by Christmas.

Battle of the boxes: FedEx vs. UPS and USPS


About this time of year, it's the big question: Which shipper can be trusted to safety deliver your holiday packages on time and undamaged? You'll find our assessment in our report on shipping companies, but Popular Mechanics recently took a high-tech approach: boxing up vibration sensors and batteries to measure jolts, jostles, drops and flips during a package's twelve trips around the country.

Fine print: Holiday free-shipping deals vary widely


December 20 is this year's drop-dead date for on-time holiday shipping, but if you want to take advantage of free shipping offered by some online retailers, you need to act faster than that. We've looked at this year's free-shipping offers and thrown them into a chart for your reference. In addition, hundreds of retailers are participating in Free Shipping Day on December 17, so if you order on that day, you can take advantage of free shipping and on-time standard delivery. The catch is that you have to order on that day.

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