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The Post Office’s Busiest Week: ‘We Plan All Year for This’
New York Times
Pity the poor letter carrier: this week will be a long one.
Monday is the busiest day of the year for the United States Postal Service, which expects to process 611 million cards, letters and packages by the end of the day — an average of almost two pieces of mail for every American.
Sue Brennan, a spokeswoman for the post office, said the holidays did not exactly catch the organization unaware.
“We plan all year for this,” she said. “This is something that we’ve done for 240 years-ish, so we’re pretty good at doing it.”
The turnaround for Monday’s mailings means Thursday is expected to be the busiest delivery day of the year, with an estimated 30 million packages brought from house to house by diligent, dog-avoiding mail carriers in all 50 states.
During the entire holiday season, from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Eve, the Postal Service estimates that it will process 16 billion items — 750 million of those will be packages.