Christmas Card List 2026: Free Printable Address Tracker and Mail-By Dates

The United States Postal Service (USPS) recommends mailing Christmas cards by Thursday, Dec. 17, 2026 with First-Class Mail in the lower 48 states, and by Wednesday, Dec. 9 for international and military mail, for delivery before Dec. 25. Our free printable Christmas card list puts a name and address tracker with sent and received boxes under a mail-by strip of those dates, plus the Canada Post and Royal Mail dates. The dates come from the USPS 2026 Holiday Shipping Deadlines page, read Nov. 4, 2026.

Christmas card list 2026 printable

Download the PDF or the PNG. The sheet has 18 rows with Name, Address, Sent, Received and Mail by columns. The strip below the table lists the mail-by dates in this story and two stamp prices. Pin it next to the December 2026 printable calendar, and see when is Christmas Day for the date itself.

What is the last day to mail Christmas cards in 2026?

The table below puts the three postal services side by side. Every date is a recommended date, not a guaranteed cutoff. Weekdays are computed from the dates in the sources.

Where the card is going	Last recommended mailing date	Source
USPS, lower 48 states, First-Class Mail	Thu., Dec. 17	USPS
USPS, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and territories, First-Class Mail	Thu., Dec. 17	USPS release, Sept. 22, 2026
USPS, international	Wed., Dec. 9	USPS
USPS, Army Post Office (APO), Fleet Post Office (FPO) and Diplomatic Post Office (DPO), First-Class Mail	Wed., Dec. 9	USPS
Canada Post, within Canada, local	Tue., Dec. 22	Canada Post
Canada Post, within Canada, regional	Mon., Dec. 21	Canada Post
Canada Post, within Canada, national	Fri., Dec. 18	Canada Post
Canada Post, to the United States	Fri., Dec. 11	Canada Post
Canada Post, to the United Kingdom	Fri., Dec. 11	Canada Post
Canada Post, to Europe	Wed., Dec. 9	Canada Post
Canada Post, to Asia, Australia, the Middle East and New Zealand	Wed., Dec. 9	Canada Post
Canada Post, to Africa, Central and South America and the Caribbean	Thu., Dec. 3	Canada Post
Royal Mail, 2nd Class	Fri., Dec. 18	Royal Mail
Royal Mail, 1st Class	Mon., Dec. 21	Royal Mail

The USPS international row on its page names First-Class Package International and Priority Mail International, and the page does not list First-Class Mail International letters separately. Royal Mail’s international airmail dates for 2026 are not confirmed: the Royal Mail site blocked our check, so we print no date for a card from the United Kingdom to the United States. For parcels, see our USPS holiday shipping deadlines story.

How much is a stamp for Christmas cards in 2026?

The USPS prices page lists a Forever letter stamp “From $0.82” and a Global Forever stamp “From $1.75”. Global Forever is the stamp for international mail. We found no Canada Post or Royal Mail stamp price in the sources we read, so none is printed.

Canada Post and Royal Mail card dates

Canada Post’s holiday sending guidelines, dated Oct. 2026, give the card dates in the table above. Our Canada Post holiday shipping deadlines story covers its parcels. Royal Mail announced its last recommended posting dates on Oct. 27, 2026: “For 2nd Class mail, the last recommended posting date is Friday 18 December.” “For 1st Class mail, it’s Monday 21 December.” The details are in our Royal Mail last posting dates story.

How do you use the Christmas card address tracker?

1. Write each name and address once in the Name and Address columns.
2. Find where the card is going in the table and write its mail-by date in the Mail by column.
3. Tick Sent when the card is in the mailbox, and Received when a card comes back from that household.

If you also have gifts to ship, our Christmas gift list and budget planner has the carrier dates for parcels.

What this card list leaves out

Royal Mail’s international 2026 posting dates and any Canada Post or Royal Mail stamp prices are not in the sources we could read, so neither appears in the story or on the sheet.