{"id":9326,"date":"2014-12-09T11:15:18","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T16:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=9326"},"modified":"2014-12-09T11:15:18","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T16:15:18","slug":"cyber-monday-spending-surpasses-2-billion-sets-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2014\/12\/09\/cyber-monday-spending-surpasses-2-billion-sets-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber Monday spending surpasses $2 billion, sets record"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Cyber Monday spending surpasses $2 billion, sets record<\/h1>\n<figure>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/liteblue.usps.gov\/news\/link\/2014\/12dec\/images\/news09s3.jpg\" alt=\"Cyber Monday\" width=\"220\" \/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>USPS &#8211; 12.08.14 &#8211; Cyber Monday, Dec. 1, was the biggest online spending day ever, according to a<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/marketingland.com\/cyber-monday-2014-biggest-e-commerce-day-ever-desktop-spending-climbs-2-billion-comscore-109977\" target=\"_blank\"><em>report<\/em><\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>by comScore.<\/p>\n<p>The research firm found online spending exceeded $2 billion for the first time that day, up 17 percent over last year. Adobe<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20141201006599\/en\/Adobe-Data-Shows-Cyber-Monday-Sales-16#.VH8Uxb68ldo\" target=\"_blank\"><em>reported<\/em><\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>total online sales of $2.65 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Mobile purchases comprised more than 21 percent of orders, up from about 16 percent last year, according to e-commerce tracking site<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/liteblue.usps.gov\/news\/link\/2014\/11nov\/news18s1.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Custora<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Online shopping generally drives big increases in shipping, and the trend is expected to continue this year. USPS <em>expects<\/em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>to deliver between 450 million and 470 million packages during the holidays, up roughly 12 percent from last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Postal Service has shifted to a 7-day holiday delivery schedule to accommodate the surge in volume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyber Monday spending surpasses $2 billion, sets record USPS &#8211; 12.08.14 &#8211; Cyber Monday, Dec. 1, was the biggest online spending day ever, according to a\u00a0report\u00a0by comScore. The research firm found online spending exceeded $2 billion for the first time that day, up 17 percent over last year. Adobe\u00a0reported\u00a0total online sales of $2.65 billion. Mobile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9326","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=9326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9328,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9326\/revisions\/9328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}