Who Ships Those 300 Million Holiday Packages, Visualized [Mail]

It’s probably the most wonderful time of the year! Or least, whenever you’re within the parcel delivery business. But who exactly is doing the brunt of the shipping this holiday season? Here’s how it breaks down.

Volume is de facto a boon to the large Three mailers inside the US: UPS, FedEx, and the Postal Service all rake in millions through mid-December. FedEx leads the charge, moving 16 million packages on its busiest day, UPS hires a different 37,500 workers for the holiday crush, according to the WSJ . As for the USPS, on December 20th they sort through a whopping 800 million pieces of mail on December 20th alone. A lot of which, hopefully, contain gift cards addressed to me. [ ZenDesk via Laughing Squid ]

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