CBS13 got a tour of the processing facility in Scarborough on Tuesday. This includes new package sorting machines and new facilities.
The Postal Service says it is modernizing and upgrading its network, especially as the number of packages in the mail has increased over the years with online shopping.
“Right now the facility is expected to do about 150,000 to 180,000 packages a day, processing, and without the technology, obviously, when it was all manual sortation, there was no way you could move that kind of volume,” said Steve Doherty, communications specialist for the United States Postal Service.
Doherty says if you want to make sure your package arrives by Christmas, here are some sending dates to remember:
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- Ground- 17th December
- Priority – 18th December
- Express – 20 December
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