Usps Facility On Its Busiest Mailing Day Of The Year
Melissa Campanelli
NEW YORK - DM News received an inside look at the inner working of the U.S. Postal Service at the Morgan Processing and Distribution Facility in Manhattan on Dec. 18, the agency's busiest mailing day of the year.
Americans placed more than 900 million pieces of mail with the USPS on Dec. 18 - an increase of about 230 million in volume over the average mailing day. Dec. 20 is the busiest delivery day of the year, according to the postal service.
The USPS also said it is seeing a dramatic increase in holiday mail to military installations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
For the first 14 days in December, there were 12 more 747cargo aircraft dispatched with mail to the Middle East than during the same period last year. That is almost a lift of the contents of a 747 every day.
Last year, the agency delivered more than 10.5 million pounds of mail to military installations overseas during the holiday period. This year, more than 16 million pounds of mail have......
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