Christmas is the busiest season for Fedex. While billions of people around the world prepare for Christmas with their holiday shoppin, December 15 was the busiest day of the year for Fedex, which delivered 13 million packages around the world. The Postal service delivered 830 million postcards and letters on its busiest day.
Fedex, the largest courier company in the world, will try hard to manage the busiest season of the year as it already moved 13 million packages around the world on December 15, the Monday week before Christmas. The company sees more growth in the holiday gift buying and shipping despite the economic downturn.
Christmas is the most active time of the year, all the stores want to have their goods and many people take the opportunity to send Christmas gifts to family and friends. The number of shipments that the company operated on its busiest day of 2009 is 8 percent higher than the equivalent day in 2008, which also was a Monday, December 15.
FedEx moved that day about 12 million packages, a number also greater by six percent than the year earlier (on 17 December 2007), and far exceeds the approximately 7.5 million packages daily managed media company.
This strong increase in workload during the holidays is also recorded by other parcel delivery companies in the country and the national postal service itself. The USPS, in other times of the year, by contrast, suffer the progressive decline of shipments due to the generalization of email and other new technologies.
"This is not only our busiest day of the year, but our best time of year, acknowledged today in a statement Patrick Donahoe, chief operating officer of the United States Postal Service.
The post office also saw the last Monday as its busiest day of the year. It was expecting to deliver 830 million letters, postcards and other packages, representing a 40 percent higher than on a normal day, when moving an average of 583 million.
Written by Armen Hareyan
Source: Diario Las Americas
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