2011 holiday news »
- 1.1 million people visit usps.com each day on an average day during the year. More than 1.5 million visit between Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve.
- The Postal Service will increase air cargo lift of mail by nearly 31 percent during the holiday season.
- The busiest mailing day of the year will be Dec. 20. The Postal Service will process about 800 million letters, cards and packages that day.
- By Dec. 6, the National Operations Center at Postal Service Headquarters will be staffed 24/7 to monitor and coordinate mail transportation nationwide.
- Postage stamps and stamp products are Cradle to Cradle certified.
- The 2011 “holiday contemporary” stamp, Holiday Baubles, is a Forever stamp. Buy it this year and use it, well, forever.
- Customers can save fuel this Yule by going online at usps.com and creating shipping labels with postage and scheduling free package pickup without ever leaving their homes.
- Many holiday-named cities, such as Santa Claus, IN; Bethlehem, PA; Garland, TX, or Evergreen, CO, have special postmarks for holiday greeting cards.
- To get holiday greeting cards postmarked from the North Pole this year, send addressed cards with proper postage in a larger envelope or box to:
NORTH POLE POSTMARK
POSTMASTER
4141 POSTMARK DR
ANCHORAGE AK 99530-9998
The envelope or box containing the greeting cards should be mailed to Anchorage no later than Dec. 10, 2011.