As holiday season underway, the busiest shipping week of the year begins
Updated 10:20, 24-Dec-2018
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With the holiday season underway, this week is estimated as the busiest mailing week of the year with around three billion pieces of First-Class Mail, including greeting cards and packages waiting to be processed and delivered. /VCG Photo  

With the holiday season underway, this week is estimated as the busiest mailing week of the year with around three billion pieces of First-Class Mail, including greeting cards and packages waiting to be processed and delivered. /VCG Photo  

In the two weeks before the Christmas, 200 million packages went out from the United State Postal Service (USPS) each week, according to a press release of the USPS. /VCG Photo

In the two weeks before the Christmas, 200 million packages went out from the United State Postal Service (USPS) each week, according to a press release of the USPS. /VCG Photo

Letters with Christmas postage stamp were seen at a Merrifield Processing and Distribution Center in the U.S., December 19, 2018. /VCG Photo

Letters with Christmas postage stamp were seen at a Merrifield Processing and Distribution Center in the U.S., December 19, 2018. /VCG Photo

Postal employees were sorting packages at the Merrifield Processing and Distribution Center in Fairfax, Virginia. /VCG Photo

Postal employees were sorting packages at the Merrifield Processing and Distribution Center in Fairfax, Virginia. /VCG Photo