{"id":9468,"date":"2014-12-19T09:17:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T14:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=9468"},"modified":"2014-12-19T09:19:25","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T14:19:25","slug":"usps-network-operations-in-full-force-for-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2014\/12\/19\/usps-network-operations-in-full-force-for-the-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS network operations in full force for the holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>USPS network operations in full force for the holidays<\/h2>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/liteblue.usps.gov\/news\/link\/2014\/12dec\/images\/news19s4.jpg\" alt=\"Operations wrap story\" width=\"220\" \/><\/div>\n<h5>Miami Letter Carrier Milaina Cruz loads<br \/>\npackages into a new cargo van.<\/h5>\n<p>USPS &#8211; 12.18.14 &#8211; Postal facilities across the nation are working hard to keep the mail moving during the peak holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta District is having its biggest season ever. One example: Package volume at the Peachtree P&amp;DC has surged 23 percent this month compared to last year, with 735,000 packages processed Dec. 15 alone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe outstanding leadership in the Atlanta District put an excellent plan in place and is executing the plan flawlessly,\u201d said Network Operations VP Dave Williams.<\/p>\n<p>In the Midwest, the Michigan Metroplex has been working around the clock to cancel millions of holiday cards and letters. The Pontiac center expects to cancel 58 million mailpieces, more than any other facility in December.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Miami International Service Center (ISC), one of four in the United States, will sort about 1 million packages during the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>The Miami ISC \u2014 open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year \u2014 processes all mail heading to the Caribbean and South America. The facility has 300 regular employees and added 110 temporary employees for the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is our season, and we are more than ready to handle the increase in package volume for our customers,\u201d said Distribution Operations Supervisor Marina Santos.<\/p>\n<p>Processing centers aren\u2019t the only facilities in holiday crunch mode, though. At the Milam Dairy Post Office in Miami, carriers are using new cargo vans that are specifically designed to deliver packages from other countries.<\/p>\n<p>The Postal Service is expected to deliver about 15.5 billion pieces of mail during the holidays, including as many as 470 million packages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1aa-USPS-small.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USPS network operations in full force for the holidays Miami Letter Carrier Milaina Cruz loads packages into a new cargo van. USPS &#8211; 12.18.14 &#8211; Postal facilities across the nation are working hard to keep the mail moving during the peak holiday season. Atlanta District is having its biggest season ever. One example: Package volume [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9469,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9468","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\/9468","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=9468"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9472,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9468\/revisions\/9472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}