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USPS delays: 'Perfect storm' of high package volume, employees out with COVID slowing deliveries before Christmas CNN 12/24/2020 By Paul P. Murphy, CNN © APWU Philadelphia The backlog of packages on the floor of the Philadelphia Processing and Distribution Center. A historic amount of packages and rising employee Covid-19 rates are causing significant backlogs at US Postal Service processing facilities before Christmas. Popular Searches All the shopping and shipping Americans have done in the last few weeks has inundated the system with what the USPS says is a "historic ...

Santa might be late this year. An overwhelmed U.S. Postal Service has been struggling for weeks to deliver packages, veteran employees said, warning that holiday gifts might not arrive by Christmas as tens of thousands of packages pile up inside Philadelphia-area processing facilities. “Don’t be using the post office right now, because we can’t deliver the mail,” said Laurence Love, an assistant clerk craft director who operates mail-sorting machines at the Philadelphia Processing and Delivery Center. Facilities across the region are so full of packages, there is barely en...

Santa might be late this year. An overwhelmed U.S. Postal Service has been struggling for weeks to deliver packages, veteran employees said, warning that holiday gifts might not arrive by Christmas as tens of thousands of packages pile up inside Philadelphia-area processing facilities. “Don’t be using the post office right now, because we can’t deliver the mail,” said Laurence Love, an assistant clerk craft director who operates mail-sorting machines at the Philadelphia Processing and Delivery Center. Facilities across the region are so full of packages, there is barely en...