USPS Gearing Up For Christmas

The U.S. Postal Service is gearing up for another busy holiday season.

Officials with the Postal Service said they expect to deliver a total of about 15.5 billion cards, letters, flats, and packages during this holiday season.

Also, the Postal Service is projecting that about 600 million packages will be delivered between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve.

That represents an increase of 10.5 percent of last year’s volume.

The Postal Service did say that there are a number of deadlines for making sure mail or packages get to their destination by Christmas Day.

They are:

December 8 – Priority Mail Express International
December 15 – Standard Post
December 19 – First Class Mail and Global Express Guaranteed
December 21 – Priority Mail
December 23 – Priority Mail Express

The Postal Service predicted that Monday, December 14 will be the busiest mailing and shipping day for holiday packages, letters and cards.

Postal Service officials said December 14 is also expected to be the busiest day online with more than 7 million customers visiting usps.com.

Meanwhile, Monday, December 21 is expected to be the busiest delivery day for holiday packages, cards, and letters with an estimate of more than 30 million packages to be delivered on that day alone.