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Christmas' Packages, Cards, & Letters * USA - "The busiest day of the year"
FedEx Man Takes Holiday Rush in StrideNew York,NY,USA -AP, by SAMANTHA BOMKAMP -15 Dec 2007: -- FedEx driver Vito Randazzo works long hours this time of year, but the smile never seems to stop. Working out of one of two FedEx Corp. warehouses in Brooklyn, this day is much like any other, but Randazzo, 48, is noticeably aware of the ramp up to the busiest day of the year... Packages crowd the conveyor belt that snakes around the warehouse. Air cargo containers loom like massive steel igloos at the start of the belt, as couriers stretch and chat before the belt starts moving and streams boxes filled with everything from Christmas presents to medical supplies. The packages are scanned, sorted and directed onto separate belts according to their destination... FedEx said it expects slowing overall economic growth and slumping U.S. retail sales to be buoyed by surging e-commerce growth... United Parcel Service Inc., FedEx's chief competitor, expects to ship 22 million packages on its peak day — Dec. 19. The projection represents less than one percent growth from last year's busiest day, and marks the smallest growth prediction in four years. UPS will add more than 60,000 employees to help with the seasonal rush... DHL International GmbH expects to ship 14.5 million packages across the globe on its busiest day, Dec. 17, according to a company spokesman. The company, owned by the German-based mail and shipping company Deutsche Post AG, predicts U.S. business will account for between 2.4 million and 2.5 million of those shipments. The company declined to report 2006 figures... The U.S. Postal Service expects nearly 1 billion pieces — including packages and those last-minute letters to Santa — to be mailed on Monday, its busiest mailing day of the year. USPS expects 275 million cards and letters to be tossed into a mailbox that day. Wednesday is expected to be the busiest delivery day for the USPS... (Photo by Mark Lennihan/AP: FedEx drivers pick packages for their delivery routes from a conveyor belt in a distribution facility on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2007 in New York. FedEx expects Monday to be the busiest day of the year. Excluding a partnership with the U.S. Postal Service, it expects to haul 10.4 million packages through express and ground service on that day, the last chance to ship via FedEx Ground for Christmas delivery. The prediction represents a 6 percent increase over the 9.8 million shipped on last year's busiest day)
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