Postal deadlines for gifts and holiday cards are rapidly approaching for people who want their mail delivered in time for Christmas, Dec. 25, Kwanzaa, Dec. 26-Jan. 1, and Hanukkah, Dec. 25-Jan. 2.

For shipping to military members in Europe and the Atlantic, those on ships in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, the Middle East and Africa, Central and South America, Korea, the Philippines, and people on ships in the Pacific and Indian oceans –  ground shipping…

Rashah McChesney is a multimedia journalist and editor who has reported and edited newsrooms from the Deep South to the Midwest to Alaska. For the past decade, she has worked in collaborative news as the...