Deep in the bowels of the USPS site, I found access to the Postal Bulletin, a newsletter sent around internally for post office employee edification. For a mail nerd like me, this is fantastic fun, but I suspect you might not want to read through a lot of regulations, et cetera. Anyway, here's some neat information about what the USPS excepts this holiday season:
"We’re expecting nearly 15.2 billion cards, letters, and packages between Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve, and on average we will process 562 million pieces of mail every day this holiday season. And when the busiest day to mail holiday cards, letters, and packages rolls around on December 17, we will be ready to accept with a smile the 658 million pieces of mail expected to be processed on that day. Then we’ll deliver it all with a jingle bell in our step and a ho, ho, ho in our hearts on the busiest delivery days, which fall on December 19, for cards and letters and December 20, for packages, all in plenty of time to be home for the holidays."
{Poster from the fantastic British Postal Museum & Archive Flickr Stream}
If you click the "Stamp Services" page you will find PO's offering different postmark cancels... I love that section of the Postal Bulletin.
Posted by: Joe Geronimo | December 20, 2012 at 07:39 PM
I think this is the list you mean, yes? http://16sparrows.typepad.com/letterwritersalliance/2012/12/holiday-remailing-postmark-cities.html
Posted by: Donovan | December 21, 2012 at 09:14 AM