Between Black Friday on November 29 and the Christmas holidays, the Post Office expects to receive up to a million packages on certain days. To deal with this, it announced on Thursday the hiring of 500 temporary employees and the increase in distribution tours.
Last year, over the same period, 21.6 million parcels were processed, with a peak of 1.2 million on Monday December 18. For comparison, the 14 sorting centers process around 600,000 packages on usual days.
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To best manage the surplus of end-of-year packages, the yellow giant plans more than 350 additional distribution rounds per day, detailed the Post Office.
Sorting machines pushed to full capacity
The sorting machines will operate 22 hours a day instead of 18 normally in the largest sorting centers, and sometimes even on Saturdays. Employees will also be supported by 500 temporary workers.
As every year, La Poste points out in a press release, it maintains close collaboration with the largest e-commerce sites, organizes additional collection tours and determines the regions where parcel volumes are particularly high.
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