Christmas Eve package rush worse than ever for USPS

BUFFALO, N.Y. — We may all at times feel the stress of the holiday season but Christmas Eve is really “the game day” for postal workers around this area. Then toss COVID in on top of it for the perfect storm, as they say.

National Association of Letter Carriers Association Branch 3 President David Grosskopf, Jr. puts it this way: “We take great pride obviously as carriers and postal employees in everything we do, and we want to make sure that all of these packages are delivered to our customers by Christmas. But unfortunately it appears that that’s not going to happen.”

Grosskopf says here and around the country numerous trucks are filled with packages and the loading docks are jammed at mail processing facilities such as Buffalo’s William Street plant.

“Right now I’m getting reports that the Buffalo plant and the Rochester plant in the Western New York District, there’s literally hundreds of tractor trailers waiting to be unloaded with packages in those vehicles, number one,” Grosskopf said.

“Number two, the docks in the plants themselves are loaded again with packages It’s not just Western New York. We’re seeing this all across the country.” Read more at WGRZ