Hands and feet are going nonstop, and truck wheels are spinning all over Inland Southern California – aka The Land of Logistics – to ensure that packages meant to delight friends or family on Christmas morning will arrive on time.
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Here are four things you need to know before shipping those packages this year.
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Automation plays a key role-packages are shuttled throughout the facility on sophisticated networks of conveyor belts, with employees handling the parcels only during the shipping container loading process. On a typical night, 1.6 million packages pass through Worldport. Just before Christmas, there can be 4million, with the peak expected Monday night. In fact, this year was the first time online sales have trumped physical sales on Black Friday, marking a shift in the way consumers get their endless gadgets and gizmos.
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Porter is like millions of Americans, counting on either the United States Postal Service, FedEx or UPS this week to make Christmas miracles. Walton said they’ve been doing Sunday deliveries since the end of November, and they’ll even be delivering on Christmas day in Knoxville.
Shipping companies are in the midst of their busiest week of the year. Post offices are, however, closed on both Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.
“I work all day, I work in the evenings, I work weekends”, said Cesano, a Ukiah, Calif., resident and the executive director of the Anderson Valley Winegrowers Assn.
The statement said that the company was committed to attempting to deliver gifts on time and before Christmas by but can no longer guarantee delivery by the 25 for items that are not flagged with a 2-day delivery stamp. All deliveries however, had returned to normal at the start of this week, said the spokesperson.
Delivery times vary by location but Rosenberg said workers will work well into the night Christmas Eve to make sure that every package is delivered.
“I ” m hoping we can get it. I hoping that when I get home it will be there”, says Nazareth Terrazas. “People like the gifts to not arrive too soon, so they wait”.
“They may be taking a day or two before they give it to a UPS or FedEx, and the consumer thinks it’s the carrier”.
Top U.S. package delivery service UPS and archrival FedEx (NYSE:FDX) are also getting competition from a resurgent U.S. Postal Service, which said Monday that it expected to deliver more than 30 million packages across the country on Wednesday, the busiest delivery day of the year. Moreover, ShipMatrix data shows a greater retardation in UPS’s performance during this year’s holiday season, compared to largest rival, FedEx.
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“We really want to provide exceptional service to the customers”, he said.
