192651 Resource 165493 94146 94146 1197908277298 1201285403729 Controlled Parcel and letter carriers reach peak days of 2007

United States postal service, FedEx, and UPS will handle the highest daily volume of the year this week. Their transportation networks are complex and have the capability of expanding and shrinking depending on the volume.

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;"><font color="#000000">Today will be the busiest day of the year for the United States Postal Service which will process over 1 billion pieces of mail worldwide.<span>&nbsp;</span>FedEx is saying that today will also be their busiest day of the year, handling over 11 million packages.<span>&nbsp;</span>UPS says that Wednesday will be their peak day, handling over 22 million packages.<span>&nbsp;</span></font></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;"></span></p><p /><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;"><font color="#000000">The transportation networks of these carriers is complex and has the capability to grow with the increased demand during the holiday season and shrink with the lower demand during the summer and especially the week after Christmas.<span>&nbsp;</span></font></span></p><p /> 9 application/xml false FedEx holiday season Logistics peak season Transportation United States Postal Service UPS WTOP News http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=25&sid=1311713 CNBC http://www.cnbc.com/id/22295375 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 Establish 208.105.4.154 false true false false true 187565 false false true false false false true 165493 blog blogsite/ChinaSupplyChain/web