DES MOINES, Iowa — Many of you order items on Prime Day from Amazon last Wednesday and the Des Moines’ Post Office was ready to get those new items to you on-time.
”It gets pretty busy, but you know, they usually get them done pretty quick,” said Anthony Perdue, a carrier for the USPS in Des Moines.
Cheryl Love is the Postmaster for the USPS Des Moines district and she says that the last couple days have been the busiest outside of the holiday season.
“Top 10 busiest for sure. Obviously, peak Christmas season it the busiest but with Amazon and some other e-commerce it increases the load over the last two days,” said Love. “As the volume increases, we shift our staff to keep up and we want to make sure it all gets out in the proper delivery window. ”
Perdue sees the same comparison about this being Christmas in July.
”It’s pretty comparable but it’s a little less because we don’t have as many first class or priority packages, just a lot more Amazon,” said Perdue. Read more
they ain’t added people in my office or gave me extra time to do all those amazon parcels because they use the average for the route not the piece count for the day and we only have 2 ccas left in my office because they all quit.