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The day changes the answer

Seven occasions, seven different problems.

The same gift is right for one of these and wrong for another. Christmas is decided by the delivery deadline. A birthday has no deadline at all, so it is decided by fit. A first Father’s Day is a milestone. Grandad has spent decades getting rid of things. These are not the same brief.

Pick the day

Each page orders its products by the constraint that actually binds on that day, and says so above the grid. None of them orders by commission.

Australian dates, not northern ones

Father’s Day in Australia is the first Sunday in September, which is spring and well clear of the Christmas freight crush. Christmas is the one where the post network is under real strain and the deadline decides what you can buy at all. The delivery clock on this site counts business days against both.