{"id":27749,"date":"2019-12-06T11:13:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=27749"},"modified":"2019-12-06T11:13:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:13:42","slug":"a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-uspss-busiest-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2019\/12\/06\/a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-uspss-busiest-season\/","title":{"rendered":"A behind the scenes look at USPS&#8217;s busiest season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kwqc.com\/templates\/2015_Sub_Video_Share?contentObj=565871802\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"dateline\"><strong>MILAN, Ill. (KWQC) &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>Postal carriers are preparing for their busiest season! Nearly 13 billion pieces of mail are expected to be processed and delivered between Thanksgiving and New Year&#8217;s Day. Over the past five years, the USPS has seen the number of packages increase by more than 2 billion &#8211; from 4 billion to 6.1 billion. The Postal Service has nearly 229,000 vehicles, each carrier taking about 100-200 pieces of mail each day.<\/p>\n<div id=\"storyThumb\" class=\"pull-right col-xs-24 col-sm-10 col-md-12 col-lg-12\">\n<div class=\"img-wrapper\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy img img-responsive initial loaded alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/media.graytvinc.com\/images\/690*386\/MAIL+(1).JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"277\" data-src=\"https:\/\/media.graytvinc.com\/images\/690*386\/MAIL+(1).JPG\" data-was-processed=\"true\" \/><\/div>\n<h6 class=\"text-center\"><em>Over the past five years, the USPS has seen the number of packages increase by more than 2 billion &#8211; from 4 billion to 6.1 billion. The Postal Service has nearly 229,000 vehicles, each carrier taking about 100-200 pieces of mail each day.<\/em><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<p>Behind the scenes, there&#8217;s a warehouse full of various machines preparing mail for the carriers. On December 4, the Milan location saw over 2 million pieces of mail go through their location!<\/p>\n<p>The United States Postal Service took TV6&#8217;s Montse Ricossa for a tour at their Milan location, showing her behind closed doors and see what goes on during their busy season. &#8220;When it&#8217;s a normal day and you times it by 10, that&#8217;s our peak season every year,&#8221; said Bob Dodds, the General Manager.<\/p>\n<p>One of the machines scans each address and prepares it for the carrier. Dodds said, &#8220;they run at about 30-32,000 pieces an hour. It will be accurate. More accurate than the carrier themselves. This will run until about 4:30 this morning.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MILAN, Ill. (KWQC) &#8211;\u00a0Postal carriers are preparing for their busiest season! Nearly 13 billion pieces of mail are expected to be processed and delivered between Thanksgiving and New Year&#8217;s Day. Over the past five years, the USPS has seen the number of packages increase by more than 2 billion &#8211; from 4 billion to 6.1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27751,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27749\/revisions\/27751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}