Postal Service ramps up for holiday rush as officials urge customers to ship early

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00:00This is our Super Bowl. We're ready to go and we're happy to serve the people during peak season.

00:06Employees at the United States Postal Service have their game faces on. With 88 million packages

00:12expected this holiday season, the art of the package delivery has become a team sport.

00:17If you're going to ship something in a repurposed box, make sure you take all the markings and labels

00:24and decals off that are not ours so that those barcodes don't mix with our system and cause your

00:30package to loop around the facility. That includes markings like hazardous or fragile. You take that

00:37off because if we can't identify that it has clear art over the window process, then we're going to

00:44have to pull that out too. Once they pass the test, everything shuffles through high output package

00:49sorters, which pushed the packages along conveyor belts. Building processes around 30,000 packages

00:55an hour. Each machine is capable of processing about 10,000 packages an hour. With so many packages,

01:02it's no surprise that postal officials continue the familiar holiday plea. Ship early, ship early, ship

01:08early. I can't say that enough. For Straight Arrow News, I'm Diane Duenas.