Christmas 2025: Amazon, Fnac, Darty… what are the deadlines for ordering your gifts and receiving them on time ?

Plus qu’une semaine avant Noël.

You are late for the holidays and you are used to ordering your Christmas presents online? If you want to find your presents under the tree for the big day, it is not too late. Find out until when you can order and receive your products.

The Christmas holidays are fast approaching. If you still have gifts to buy, it's not too late to make some last-minute orders online and get them delivered on time.

Here are the deadlines to make your purchases and receive your gifts for the big day.

Amazon

On Amazon, the delivery date is specified under each item sold. For standard delivery in metropolitan France, Amazon indicates that you will receive your package within three working days between 8 a.m. and 9 p.m.

If you have an Amazon Prime subscription, you can benefit from free delivery within 24 hours, or 1 working day, unless the order contains books destined for France. Sometimes Amazon delivery people deliver your package on the same day as the order.

Fnac

On the Fnac website, several delivery methods are possible:

for standard delivery in 2 or 3 working days: you have until December 19 at 11:59 p.m. in the provinces and until December 20at 11:59 p.m. in the Paris region for express delivery in 1 business day: you have until December 21 at 6 p.m. in the provinces and until December 23 at 11:59 p.m. in the Paris region for 1-day collection in store, you have until December 21 at 6 p.m. in the provinces and until December 23 at 11:59 p.m. in the Paris region for 1-hour collection in store: you have until December 24 at 5 p.m. For evening delivery between 7 p.m. and 10 p.m., you have until December 24 at 12 p.m. For 2-hour delivery or by appointment: you have until December 24 at 12 p.m.

At Darty, Cdiscount and King Jouet

The order deadlines are the same as those of Fnac for express home delivery and 2-hour delivery. Other delivery methods are specified on the Chez Darty website.

On the Cdiscount website, products that can be delivered on time are identified by a “Guaranteed delivery before Christmas” sticker. The website also indicates that delivery is “guaranteed before Christmas for any order placed until Monday, December 23 12 noon”.

At King Jouet, delivery “is guaranteed before Christmas by Chronopost for orders placed (and paid) before midnight on December 20th”.

La Redoute

For all orders placed before December 20that 12 noon, La Redoute guarantees its customers that they will be delivered by December 24 at the latest to parcel relay points.

This only concerns “small items (fashion, household linen, decoration and small household appliances) available” with the acronym “sold and shipped by La Redoute”.

Marketplace products, deferred items and bulky items are not affected, according to the decoration and ready-to-wear website.

La Post

If you want to send a parcel (Colissimo shipment) by La Poste for Christmas, you will have to send it from a post office no later than Friday, December 20th.

For international shipments in Europe, you have until Monday, December 16th, Tuesday, December 17th, or Wednesday, December 18th depending on the destination. For shipments to the United States, Canada, China, or Japan, you had to do so before December 13th. Concerning the overseas territories, the date has also passed.

Chronopost and DPD

For all express deliveries, “Chronopost undertakes to deliver by Tuesday, December 24, parcels collected no later than Saturday, December 21″.

For DPD France, “parcels collected no later than Friday, December 20 will be delivered for New Year's Eve”, La Poste specified in a press release.