How ready will USPS be this year for the holiday season this year?
We got an early look at how the Postal Service plans to manage peak season this year from a presentation it shared with its mailing partners during a technical advisory meeting this week.
USPS Peak Season Network
In time for peak season, USPS plans to have 46 additional package processing machines online.
The Postal Service has been adding these new machines since the start of the year as well as additional material handling equipment to increase its efficiencies.
These new deployments will expand the Postal Service’s package processing capacity from about 50 million packages per day last year to about 53 million per day this year.
In 2021, USPS added 48 parcel support annexes (PSAs) and 49 temporary peak annexes to support its holiday rush.
The 48 PSAs were generally deployed in higher volume areas and remained