Postal Service making plans to get jump on holiday season
The U.S. Postal Service will begin collecting mail from its blue collection boxes in Uniontown after 2 p.m. Sunday to get a head start on what is expected to be a busy mailing day on Monday. Blue boxes in Uniontown will be among those in western Pennsylvania where collections will be made on Sunday, according to the Postal Service.
“We anticipate a very busy weekend for our customers who will be out shopping and preparing their greeting cards to mail,” said postal service spokesman Tad Kelley. “We are asking that customers deposit their mail in their local collection boxes Sunday before 2 p.m. This will allow our operations to get a jump on processing and transporting holiday mail.”
The Pittsburgh mail plant, where the postal service normally processes 750,000 letters a day, expects to receive more than 2.5 million pieces of mail on Monday, Kelley said.
To make sure cards and packages arrive by Christmas, the postal service recommends mailing greeting cards through first-class mail by Tuesday.
Packages should be shipped through Priority Mail, a two-to-three-day service, also by Tuesday.
Packages should be sent through the overnight service Express Mail by Wednesday.
Express Mail and Priority Mail boxes are available for free at post offices.