Sort then shuffle

United States Postal Ser­vice clerks Sherri Fry (fore­ground) and Cecilia Eas­ton sort daily mail in the USPS Sun­bury branch. Fry, who has been with the Sun­bury branch for 15 years, said that any clos­ings due to gov­ern­ment cut­backs would affect smaller offices in the area with­out clerks, car­ri­ers and rural deliv­ery. Eas­ton, a 31-year vet­eran of the postal ser­vice, said that the hol­i­days were incred­i­bly busy. “We had 2,000 extra pack­ages per day com­ing in that had to be sorted by us and dis­trib­uted to car­ri­ers due to online shop­ping. We also had Fed Ex, UPS and DHL drop­ping off pack­ages for deliv­ery. First-class mail is down due to peo­ple pay­ing bills online, but hol­i­day ship­ping from online pur­chases helped out a great deal.”

Posted by Staff Reports on Jan 3 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Comments can be made below.