{"id":9390,"date":"2014-12-12T16:37:14","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T21:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=9390"},"modified":"2014-12-12T16:38:49","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T21:38:49","slug":"postal-service-ready-for-busiest-mailing-day-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2014\/12\/12\/postal-service-ready-for-busiest-mailing-day-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Postal Service Ready for Busiest Mailing Day of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>More than 640 Million Pieces of Mail Expected Monday<\/h3>\n<p><strong>WASHINGTON<\/strong><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0&#8211; 12.12.14\u00a0&#8211;<\/span> Monday, Dec. 15, will mark the Postal Service\u2019s busiest mailing day of the year with more than 640 million cards, letters and packages expected to be processed. Last year, 607 million pieces of mail were processed on the busiest day, reflecting an increase due to growth in advertising and mail package volume.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1aa-USPS-small.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7270\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1aa-USPS-small.gif\" alt=\"1aa-USPS-small\" width=\"250\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Postal Service is delivering seven days a week in major cities and high volume areas including Christmas Day.\u00a0 Dec. 20 is the deadline to send greeting cards, packages and letters to ensure delivery in time for Christmas. For the last-minute shoppers, Dec. 23 is the deadline for sending packages using Priority Mail Express.<\/p>\n<p>Customers can skip the trip to the Post Office altogether and ship online using the Postal Service\u2019s website,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usps.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>usps.com<\/em><\/a>. Using<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usps.com\/ship\/print-a-label.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Click-N-Ship<\/a>,<\/em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>customers can print shipping labels for postage. The popular Priority Mail Flat Rate Holiday Boxes virtually eliminate the need to weigh packages.<\/p>\n<p>Customers also may request<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/tools.usps.com\/go\/ScheduleAPickupAction!input.action\" target=\"_blank\"><em>free package pickup<\/em><\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>online, The Postal Service will pick up packages as part of regular mail delivery the next business day and, unlike with other shipping companies, there is no fee for this service.<\/p>\n<p>The Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 640 Million Pieces of Mail Expected Monday WASHINGTON\u00a0&#8211; 12.12.14\u00a0&#8211; Monday, Dec. 15, will mark the Postal Service\u2019s busiest mailing day of the year with more than 640 million cards, letters and packages expected to be processed. Last year, 607 million pieces of mail were processed on the busiest day, reflecting an increase due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9390","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\/9390","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=9390"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9393,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9390\/revisions\/9393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}