Happy Thanksgiving!

Today the U.S. Postal Service begins to deliver 20 billion pieces of mail across the country and around the world between Thanksgiving and Christmas according to a USPS news release.

Staff at the National Operations Center report for “24-7 duty” on Dec. 1 to help navigate, literally, mail movement around the world.

With the busiest mailing day set for Monday, Dec. 17, the task will require more than 200,000 trucks, a 30 percent increase in air cargo transport, 37,000 Post Offices and 700,000 employees.

More than 275 million cards and letters are expected to be mailed that day - more than three times the average daily volume of 82 million.

The busiest delivery day is expected to be Wednesday, Dec. 19.

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