It’s no secret that the holidays are the busiest time of the year for the US Postal service. According to preliminary estimates, in the period from thanksgiving of 2017 until the New year (01 January 2018), mail will send about 850 million parcels. Congestion was observed before. Parcels, letters, cards, Americans have always sent, in order to congratulate the holidays to their family and friends. But with the development of online shopping, the load on the mail has increased significantly. For comparison: in 2012 year, the holiday season was sent to all 365 million packages. Adds complexity and the lack of personnel over the last 5 years the number of employees of the Postal service declined by 20,000 people, so during the holidays, used the labor of temporary employees (about 35,000-40,000 people annually).
The above forecasts for the number of packages this year – very approximate. And this is in the Postal service have seen. So, according to them, Sunday, December 17, mail was send about 6 million parcels, and has actually sent 10.5 million. 19 Dec time to wait in line for customer service was more than 3 hours, phone numbers addresses were in the truest sense of the word «hot». So if you’re not bothered about buying gifts online beforehand and decided to order now – be prepared for the fact that your parcel may not reach on time. In addition, any problems arising in connection with sending you, probably until the end of the holidays will have to decide for himself.
