Christmas is quickly approaching, and many people are making those holiday purchases and preparing to send them out to family and friends.
This makes for a busy time of year for the United States Postal Service. USPS has been delivering the holidays for 257 years, and this year is no different.
WSFA 12 News got a tour inside the mail processing facility in Montgomery. Inside, employees were hard at work postmarking letters and cards and processing packages. At the beginning of October, USPS brought on 28,000 peak holiday season hires and deployed more than 130 new package processing machines throughout the country to meet the demand.
But just as the holidays are quickly approaching, so are the mailing deadlines to send presents to your friends and loved ones. Fetterly said it’s always best to go to your local post office early in the day and avoid reusing boxes if you can.
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