{"id":9381,"date":"2014-12-12T16:18:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T21:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=9381"},"modified":"2014-12-12T16:18:59","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T21:18:59","slug":"were-ready-for-the-rush-pmg-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2014\/12\/12\/were-ready-for-the-rush-pmg-says\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re ready for the rush,\u2019 PMG says"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\u2018We\u2019re ready for the rush,\u2019 PMG says<\/h2>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/liteblue.usps.gov\/news\/link\/2014\/12dec\/images\/news15s1.jpg\" alt=\"Busiest mailing\/delivery week\" width=\"220\" \/><\/div>\n<h6>Miami International Service Center<br \/>\nParcel Post Distribution Operator<br \/>\nPamela Brantley gears up for the holiday rush.<\/h6>\n<p>12.12.14 &#8211; The Postal Service is gearing up for the year\u2019s busiest mailing, shipping and delivery days next week.<\/p>\n<p>The busiest mailing day will be Monday, Dec. 15, when employees will process an expected 640 million cards, letters and packages. On the busiest mailing day last year, 607 million pieces were processed.<\/p>\n<p>The busiest delivery day for cards will be Wednesday, Dec. 17, and the busiest delivery day for packages will be Thursday, Dec. 18.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re ready for the rush and ready to deliver,\u201d said Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe. \u201cThis isn\u2019t just our busiest time of year \u2014 it\u2019s our season. Customers can count on the Postal Service to deliver their holiday gifts in time for Christmas as we have for the past 239 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This year, the Postal Service is expecting to process and deliver more than 12.7 billion greeting cards and 470 million packages between Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve \u2014 up about 12 percent from 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018We\u2019re ready for the rush,\u2019 PMG says Miami International Service Center Parcel Post Distribution Operator Pamela Brantley gears up for the holiday rush. 12.12.14 &#8211; The Postal Service is gearing up for the year\u2019s busiest mailing, shipping and delivery days next week. The busiest mailing day will be Monday, Dec. 15, when employees will process [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9381","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\/9381","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=9381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9383,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9381\/revisions\/9383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}