The Postal Service Survived the Election. But It Was Crushed by Holiday Packages.
The Postal Service Survived the Election. But It Was Crushed by Holiday Packages. 270 Early in the pandemic last spring, hard-hit parts of the U.S. Postal Service struggled to process mail on time. Then new leadership made changes in July that slowed the mail and raised fears of delays ahead of the election. Neither of those disruptions compared with what happened in December. Note: Includes three of the seven Postal Service regions. Region definitions can be found here. Source: United States Postal Service In December, amid a crush of packages and record numbers of coronavirus cases, serv...