Season Brings Busiest Days For Postal Service, UPS, FedEx
12.14.09 |
If you think you're busy during the holiday season, consider these numbers from the U.S. Postal Service and two package delivery giants. The Postal Service expects to process 839-million pieces of mail on December 14th, its busiest mailing day of the year. In the month leading up to Christmas, America's postal workers get well over 16-billion cards, letters and packages delivered to friends and loved ones. That includes 30-million pounds of holiday mail destined for U.S. overseas military personnel in places like Iraq and Afghanistan.
FedEx plans to ship about 13-million holiday packages big and small on December 14th, which would be the biggest one-day volume in the company's history. By comparison, FedEx shipped 12-million packages on its busiest day of the holiday season in 2008. UPS projects December 21st will be its highest volume day of the year with more than 22-million package deliveries. That is 40-percent above what UPS delivers on an average day.
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