Wednesday, November 9, 2011

UPS expects huge holiday rush, thanks to online

By Patrick Rizzo

UPS is predicting its biggest holiday delivery rush ever this year, thanks to shoppers who wait until the last minute to order online.

"Before the explosion of e-commerce, the holiday peak season stretched from Thanksgiving to Christmas; now, it's been compressed to the last two weeks before Christmas," UPS said in a statement?Monday.??

The delivery company said?it expects to handle 120 million packages globally in?the 10 days before Christmas. That's up more than 6 percent from the 113 million packages it delivered at the same time in 2010.

Within those 10 days, it?predicted five days in which?deliveries will exceed 25 million packages a day, versus only one day last?year when that occurred.

The delivery frenzy will peak on Dec. 22,?UPS projected,?when it will handle 26 million?packages in one day.

Beat that, Santa.?

Source: http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/07/8683155-ups-expects-huge-holiday-rush-thanks-to-online

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