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

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

Employees at the United States Postal Service have their game faces on

With 88 million packages expected this holiday season, the art of the package delivery has become a team sport

If you're going to ship something in a repurposed box, make sure you take all the markings and labels and decals off that are not ours

so that those barcodes don't mix with our system and cause your package to loop around the facility

That includes markings like hazardous or fragile. You take that off because if we can't identify that it has clear our over-the-window process

then we're going to have to pull that out too. Once they pass the test, everything shuffles through high-output package sorters

which push the packages along conveyor belts. Building processes around 30,000 packages an hour

Each machine is capable of processing about 10,000 packages an hour. With so many packages, it's no surprise that postal officials continue the familiar holiday plea

Ship early, ship early, ship early. I can't say that enough. For Straight Arrow News, I'm Diane Duenas