Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Busiest shipping day volume up from last year
Monday, December 15th, was the busiest shipping day of the year, as people across the U.S. got their holiday shipping off before the holiday shipping deadlines.
UPS projected that Monday would be the single busiest day in UPS history for its processing centers, in which it estimates 585 million packages will be processed, according to USA Today. Next Monday, the 22nd, is expected to be UPS' busiest delivery day with about 34 million packages moved globally.
FedEx expected to process around 22.6 million packages Monday, up from 22 million packages shipped on Dec. 16, 2013. Just seven years ago, only 11.5 million packages were shipped on the busiest day.
Between Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve, the shipping firm expects to handle 290 million packages, an 8.8 percent jump over last year.
The United States Postal Service is also seeing a jump in volume this year. USPS estimated it carried around 640 million pieces of mail Monday, up from 607 million on the busiest day in 2013.
For more of the Forbes story: fortune.com
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