People with friends and relatives abroad need to start thinking about those Christmas cards and gifts.
The deadline for sending first-class mail and priority mail to Africa and South and Central America to assure delivery for the holiday is Dec. 4, the U.S. Postal Service said Monday.
The deadline for first-class and priority mail sent to other [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc will be introducing new rounds of price cuts every week until Christmas as the world’s largest retailer reaches out and appeals to cash-strapped shoppers looking to stretch their holiday budgets.
As part of what it is calling “Operation Main Street,” Wal-Mart will be slashing prices on thousands of items that it says are [...]

Only the modern Christmas could present such a dilemma: should one use a completely recyclable resource (real Christmas trees) once a year or use the same landfill-unfriendly resource (artificial trees) for many years in the celebration of the season?
Every year, some 20 million real fir trees are harvested in the name of Christmas celebration [...]

As Christmas approaches, a prominent South Orange County pastor reminds the world about the holiday’s real meaning.
Pastor Rick Warren this week unveils the message in his third book – “The Purpose of Christmas” hitting bookstores Tuesday. Simply written, the book details the true meaning of Christmas – the birth of Jesus Christ and its [...]

Council leaders in Oxford have decided to ban the word Christmas from this year’s festive celebrations to make them more ‘inclusive’. But the decision to rename the series of events the ‘Winter Light Festival’ has been criticised by religious leaders and locals said it was ‘ludicrous’.
Sabir Hussain Mirza, chairman of the Muslim Council of Oxford, [...]

Whatever your holiday budget, you won’t feel Scrooge-like for long when shopping in Michigan’s most over-the-top holiday destinations.
Just be prepared for the unexpected when exploring the towns of Christmas and Holly on streets such as Jingle Bell Lane. Jokester street actors may haul you off to pick-pocket school. Or snow might fall on your head [...]

One in four people who ran up debt last Christmas are still repaying the bill, a survey has shown.
Four out of 10 people used credit cards or other forms of borrowing to meet festive costs last year, according to price website Savebuckets.com.
But only 29% of these people had managed to clear their debt during January, [...]

Nintendo says that Wii production is at an all-time high, but that massive consumer demand means it still might not be able to satisfy all punters hoping to get their hands on one this holiday.
“Nintendo has continually raised the production levels of the Wii hardware,” said Reggie Fils-Aime, the company’s US president.
“We’re now producing 2.4 [...]