for its part, amazon relies heavily on the postal service for the last mile to home. two-thirds of its packages are sorted by the company in its warehouses and handed off to the quasi governmental agency for fi delivery. it's less expensive option for amazon, as well as, at times, ups and fedex. >> there's clearly a need for a participant beyon fedex and ups which arguably operate a duopoly. i think what we're talking about here is getting amazon to pay a fair rate for the service from the postal service and then generally speaking, getting the volume of sales in the postal service to be enough for them to offset their cost. >> reporter: critics say those e-commerce deliveries by the usps, which isn't funded by taxpayer money, are being subsidized by the universal service obligation, which makes the usps maintain requirements under congressional edict to ensure all users receive a reasonable level of service a reasonable price. unless congress passes new legislation, little will likely change. especially since package delivery is how the postal service is reinventing

richard reeve is live to explain what the postal service is doing. rich? >> a take on the bait and switch. you know where the packages are going but the bad guys won't and hopefully they will arrive safely. >> with 15 billion pieces of holiday mail out there, the porch pirates are scoping your neighborhood. >> steal boxes and the gifts from people. yeah. this guy hitting 13 street northeast. look at this woman. dressed in a u.s. postal service shirt. >> it's kind of sad. >> awful. >> irma ellis stewart who lives on nearby 13 place has the surveillance cameras that point everywhere. including the front porch. she bought them house was robbed. no porch pirate worries now. >> some of them have dependencies so they take what belong to others. >> the police branch, the postal service tracking the mail thieves and taking advantage of the holidays. >> they keep us busy. we are investigating them. >> the postal service has new delivery tips including the intercept program where a package can be rerouted, route in transit if you are not home. they suggest to have p

the united states postal service has set up something really cool. year, alex, a lot of people really feel motivated to do something good, to do something extra for their community, for people that may not have as good a christmas or as good a holiday as other folks. tell me about operation çsanta >> well, erika, our operation santa program is 105 years this year in operation. so it allows members of the community to help local children have and maybe their family doesn't have the means or resources -- >> right. so if you have never heard of this before, it is comparable to angel çtree. >> yes. >> this is an opportunity to maybe give back to kids in the community. do the gifts stay here? >> yes, we do them locally. we onlyç accept gifts for loca children in washington, d.c. and we make sure they're delivered in time for christmas. >> i'm watching this at home this morning, where can i find information about operation santa and a child that's in need this holiday season? >> they can come see us at 900 brentwood road, washington, d.c., 20018. they c

well, we will do the postal service, postal service is predicting its bus years week of the year.agency is betting it will deliver or predicting it will deliver nearly 3 billion pieces of mail this week, ranking from greeting cards, to packages, and almost 200 million packages are expected to be dropped off between today and christmas eve, and again, that's just by the postal service, jim, rahel >> one of ourrs, diane , pat gallen, actually at the post offers this cherry hill, so he's supposed to be giving us a behind the scenes look what it is like today. >> crate. >> i'm real excited to so. i'm sure it is madness. >> madness, exactly. you'll see just, you know, greeting cards, you know, packages, just everything you can think of going through the system this week. >> ho-ho-ho. well, we will check in with you in the next hour, thanks, diane, appreciate it. >> thank you. >> after several days every chilly temperatures, we're getting a break. >> yes, matt, talking about again mild this week, very mild for december. >> very mild is right. i said it before, dairy say, could it feel s

would loosen the reins on the postal service a little bit.igher rates for some services. let them stop delivering to the front door of every business in the country. that legislation has not advanced very far despite republican support. no, the president cannot order the postal service to raise the rates it is charging amazon. if the postal service did that, amazon would likely look to alternatives for delivery services. they are known to be building their own new delivery system, including drones and door-to-door service. david: let me pull back to a broader sense of is going on in the tech sector. i was struck today. this analyst came out with a report that said apple alphabet, amazon, facebook, tencent, all could build up to a $1 trillion market cap. with these tech companies really going so big and so powerful, they are affecting every asset -- aspect of life. can the regulators be far behind? and not just in washington, play europe and asia? cory: the president talking about restrictions on amazon's business, one person's regulation is a

postal service center in our area in the busiest week of the year. jay: u.s. postal service workers with the help of state-of-the-art technology. >> it processes 31,000 letters omitted. jay: working around the clock at the distribution center in gaithersburg. >> jay: to make sure that your holiday card gets to its destination on time. this is a rare look inside of the process center. >> this is our busiest week of the year, by far. jay: this week the postal service will process some 3,000,001st-class letters. on this night alone, workers will handle 1.2 million letters in this facility. -- the postal service will process some 3 million first-class letters. >> it means a lot to help people celebrate the holidays. jay: to get your letter to its destination by christmas day, it has to go priority mail by wednesday. jay korff, abc 7 news. busyhan: while it is a week for shipping companies, it is also a busy week for shipping scams. fedex is warning against people using their brand to steal your delivery problems, notification, and uses the fedex logo. when you cli

i think they could deliver a different method if the postal service upped their rates. is the postal service losing money and is that a de facto government subsidy to amazon? they could launch their own thing, but they would have, you know, they would have to spend money developing that. two different questions. they are charging enough to cover their costs, but whether it's a subsidy to amazon is a different question. amazon would probably have to pay more if the postal service did not exist, but at the postal charged rates closer to fedex and ups, amazon might very well find a cheaper method, doing it itself or some other -- knows? i don't know if it is fair to call it a subsidy. julie: and if they raised rates on amazon they would have to raise rates on everyone, and there would be other consequences of that. this tweet does not mean the postal service is going to raise rates, we will know the animosity the president appears bezos andwards jeff amazon as a result. are there other realistic ways the government can make life difficult for the company? alex: in an earli

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three wheelers will soon be delivering letters in norway so why the special interest from the postal service is. important for commuting we can help them cut costs for the vehicles accelerate much faster and they also start much faster than conventional vehicles. but each postal worker can save eight seconds per stop off. that doesn't sound like much but if you think they make six hundred to a thousand stops a day then it soon adds up to a considerable amount all for people and then there's that the all electric roadster that keyboard has developed to have fun with but it comes at a price. i'm trying to function quote if it costs thirty six thousand swiss francs you could but you can also buy it as a kid and assemble it yourself in your living room. then it costs just twenty seven thousand dollars. and with you know the wall out of my living room to get the car out. all the individual components will be easy to take in but afterwards you will need to build again yes. i've been building electric cars for twenty five years and most have been practical oneself but i just long to build one that'

postal service recently sent out 150 letters like this to customers letting them know their mail mayen stolen from a postal truck parked on 5th street near downtown. >> check the credit card statements or bank statements. if there is any activity you did not make, contact us. because that's the information that will help us identify the

because you can you can save a lot of time by using electric cars and for example the german postal service the dutch opposed they are already using two thousand five hundred electric cars and they're saving money by using those cars and it works there they just announced they want to build even bigger delivery cars and buyers from the outside they want to use those cars too we're going to have another in a moment what was the next destination we went to. austria next ok and then a small company is taking on one of the biggest problems facing the electro mobility sector a limited range a firm of the city of lens has been making big leaps and terms of battery capacity . our electric adventure continues we were in linz austria where there's a revolution going on in the battery industry. innovator converted into an electric car by the kaiser. and it's not just a pleasure to drive it has tremendous range that's because the firm gets much more out of the batteries than a manufacturer let's take a look at this one. guys will build their battery factory from the ground up the firm's just three yea

. >>> the postal service expects to process and deliver nearly three billion pieces of first-class mail this week alone. officials also predict that today will be the busiest day of the week for online shoppers. we talked to a spokesperson for the postal service who has good advice for last-minute mailers. >> when you're packaging an item, put a duplicate of the to and from address inside the box. if something happens while we're handling it, our employees will know where it's going so it won't get delayed. use a good, strong box. don't guess at a zip code. a wrong zip code is worse than no zip code. >> if you ship by priority mail express by friday's deadline, the postal service says it will have workers on duty to deliver it on or before christmas day. the emphasis on "on. ". >>> twitter is enforcing stricter policies on social media symbols. the accounts of well-known white nationalists were suspended yesterday. groups are praising the policies. twitter says users may not use hateful imagery and header images. in a user posts hateful images, they must be marked "sensitive media." >>>

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postal service? >> no.irect taxpayer funding. >> who makes up for the losses that the usps earns? or doesn't earn every year >> well, that's exactly why there's been such a debate about reforming and fixing the postal service right now up they have been racking up tens of billions in losses. a lot of it is tied to the obligatory funding for retiree benefits but if you exclude that, the fact that they have been doubling down on packages, they have been able to grow those revenues, grow those volumes and even though the profits are not as strong as is more traditional businesses, their numbers aren't quite as bad as they look when you see the headline numbers. >> i don't think it should be privatized. >> this has been a conversation since i got into the business in the 1980s. everybody is talking about privatizing the postal service the question is, what would a private company do with a large customer base like amazon if it was giving this much bulk activity, would they lower the price to goal them volume di

postal service. the president attacks the world's lanchest online, the precushions they are taking set for sunday night. . morning lows in the sipg l dimgts and lower teens, why these temperatures will seem ip vieting. i have that cold and frigid top day forecast coming up. >>> a gunman opened fire. it happened in the suburb of cairo, egypt. islamic militants have targeted the group several times. christians make up about 10% of the population aptd have complained of discrimination. the gunman was killed in a shootout. >> president trump criticizing the u.s. postal service and asking why it doesn't charge amazon and others more to deliverpackages. they said the postal service is losing tens of millions. the growth in online increased the package delivery business they have not offset declines in first class mail. >>> we are not the only part of the country that is in a deep freeze. hundreds of millions of americans are experiencing bitterly cold temperatures. if you thought it has been cold here this

. >> during the holiday season the us postal service estimates on average it will process 553 milliontness news" reporter pat gallen, live in cherry hill more on how it all gets done. good morning, pat. >> good morning jim rahel. yes, billions and billions of pieces of mail are going out this holiday season, and of course we know that christmas is just a week away, santa is really good at what he does, but, he needs a little bit of help this holiday season, so that's why we're at the us postal service here in cherry hill this is ray good morning, my friends. >> good morning pat. >> so ray works for the usps. ray what are we seeing happen behind just this building? >> the same kind of activity that is taking place in post offices all across the country you have early morning crew coming in getting all of the packages all of the mail, for delivery today the next couple of days, you know, being a week away from christmas there is will be our heaviest mailing week, probably deliver more than 3 billion pieces of mail this week and an office like this generally they might do about 5,000 pac

postal service. so i do think there's an opportunity if they charge a fairer rate, there still be lots of volume from amazon for them to take care of. >> all right i think we should ask what would benjamin franklin do right? >> as long as the price of stamps doesn't go up anymore. >> wouldn't necessarily use legislation to make it fair. you made an interesting point earlier, kelly, when you said that -- the rules on postal -- the rules on postal have actually led to some very strange pricing. so that -- disparity in long haul, if you were to gofrom ne york to los angeles, is 30%-plus cheaper via the post office, but if you're going to go from, say, you know, new york to new jersey, you're going to find actually the services are very competitive, in fact, u.p.s. and fedex in some cases may be cheaper because the post office charges a flat rate. >> well, we'll see if that ends up changing the dynamic. guys, thank you, again, very much appreciate it. donald and tom forte. >>> let's take another quick ch

. >>> postal service, pricing problem.vernment wants to change postage. >>> plan to make some riders. >>> as the sun sets, in store for windy night. talk about when the winds ease after the forecast. >>> sneak peek outside. san mateo bridge. lovely sunset along with all the drivers moving around pretty normal p >>> a vote expected tomorrow on a plan supporters say will make riders safer on muni line. sfmta will vote on a plan for islands. vote after a pilot program to improve safety failed. added road stripping and signage to warn drivers about passengers getting on and off trains to streets. business leaders oppose the plans saying will hurt business in the area. >>> small fortune to buy bay area home. always getting larger. >> it's scary. michael finney joining us with how much money you need to make and rising cost of stamps of all things. >> start with stamps and next one can whine together. mailing by way of the u.s. postal service is cheap. 49 cents. not going to last. federal regulators allowing postal service to ra

the postal service expects to handle 400 million packages in the two weeks before christmas and today is the busiest of the weeks. we have more now from san jose. >> my mother, in arizona, son in new hampshire. >> christmas presents to my sister and husband in boise idaho. >> my older sister? louisville. >> holiday packages heading to all corners of the country for christmas, hopefully. >> we will see. so it's kind of like, be grateful, it's christmas, i will try to get it there by the 25th. >> the united states postal service is operating in overdrive, it will handle 400 million packages in the two weeks before christmas. 10% more than last year. >> just this facility alone will be processing 700 million total pieces of mail. of that, $169,000 will be packages like this behind me. >> there was a line and customers were in good spirits. >> the line was out of the door. and we had an appointment and other errands to run, we came back more sdplimpt an emergency last week, i had to go out of town. so kind of put a crink in my plans here i am. >> reporter: thes custome custot in under the

postal service recently sent out 150 letters like this to customers letting them know their mail may have been stolen from a postal truck parked on 5th street near downtown. >> check the credit card statements or bank statements. if there is any activity you did not make, contact us. because that's the information that will help us identify the individuals. >> a number of postal truck break ins san jose jumped from 5 last year to 16 so far this year. many of the crimes happened within a one-mile radius of this station near st. james park downtown. the thieves are breaking into the back of locked trucks while the carrier is out delivering mail. >> it's surprising. i mean maybe it needs security to follow them around. there needs to be better locks on the mail trucks. maybe an alarm or something. >> reporter: the postal service says both packages and letters were stolen. and so far they have had no reports of identity theft. but again we just had another break in last thursday. and now the postal service is looking at doing some type of security upgrade to make it more difficult for cr

(clapping) and the united states postal service delivers more of those purchases to homes than anyone the country. ( ♪ ) because we know, are sometimes the biggest. >>> welcome back. as you heard, we discussed with senator cardin high-profile democrats are saying senator franken should not leave congress after all. >> i definitely think he should not resign. i think he should submit himself, which he has willingly done, offered to do and go through this complete process of an extensive ethics review, and whatever the outcome is i will live with it. i can live with that. i've seen a person that, that his own caucus has turned on. it just made me sick. it really reporting at least four senators are urging franken to reconsider resigning including two who issued statements calling for the resignation two weeks ago. go figure. senator franken didn't announce an official date for when he would resign, and in his good-bye speech earlier in the month but since thin, minnesota's governor selectsed the state senator to fill the seat. it is working with smith's team to if a sifacilitate the tra

postal service helping you fight back against porch pirates this holiday season. they have introduced a service called a package intercept, allowing them to reroute your package to a new location while in transit. officials say lesson is no matter where they are delivered, don't let packages sit there all day. >> pick up your mail as soon as possible. you do not want your package is sitting out because it makes them more vulnerable. nancy: usps says if you fall victim, call the postal inspectors directly instead of the police. there is a link to do so on your shipping receipt. jonathan: an important reminder about the metro red line. there will be no trains between silver spring and fort totten this weekend as crews fix signal problems linked with a 40-year-old communications cable. if all goes as planned, normal service will resume sometime monday morning, hopefully before the commute. this is aptly a can happen, a man and a tractor-trailer collided, called on the police camera. police officer aims for the snowbank instead of the truck. fortunately in all of this,

. >> friday is the deadline for the postal service priority mail express delivery and monday, which istmas day, of course, fedex will drieliver th same day. >>> we saw some angry santas. >> union organizers are holding similar protests saying walmart workers are not being paid fairly during the holidays. the angry santas tried to present the manager at this store in walmart with a petition but they were turned away at the door. >> the union organizers say walmart stopped paying holiday pay last year. the santas and helpers handed out flyers to walmart customers today. >> we want them to be aware of how walmart treats treat them very well as much as they say they do with their fancy commercials on tv. >> walmart released a statement to news4 saying its paid time off program is designed to give associates more stability in their lives. the company adds that both full and part-time workers get paid leave for each walmart holiday. >>> a permanent honor for a young woman from virginia. how charlottesville was just given the victim of that city's deadly protest a lasting legacy. >> plus, we'

postal service says today is the besidest week of the holiday shipping season. close to 3 billion pieces of first class mail will be processed and delivered. more than 15 billion pieces of mail. and 850 million packages are september between thanksgiving and new year's day. that's 10% more than last year. today will be the postal service's busiest day online with 7 million customers logging on to the usps website. >> you'll be happy to know i finished shopping. trying to impress you. >> you did -- early. >>> twitter has new rules it's enforcing on hate speech. straight ahead, the campaign by twitter two combat harassment and abuse. >>> and a tribute to a fallen firefighter. the show of respect and affection for an engineer. >>> traffic is off to a good start on 101 in san francisco. >>> and it's been a very dry -- not the driest -- december, maybe some this week. we'll take a look coming up. >>> welcome back to mornings on 2. it's 4:14. president trump has promised america a great christmas present and says he's just days away from giving it. referring to a majo

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the postal service said deliveries will get underway as early as 5:00 a.m. they are projecting a more than 10% increase in package volume this holiday season, and that's more than 850 million packages to be delivered between thanksgiving and new year's day, which is 100 million more than last year. >>> a winter storm making its way up the northeast tonight has left at least three people dead, and hundreds of others without power. the storm named winter storm pengy has affected the eastern seaboard and the most northeast. it left about a foot of snow in the house south before hitting this region. that snow is causing problems for air travelers. almost 800 flights have been canceled at airports across the country. more than 2,000 are delayed. atlanta's airport has been hardest hit. 20% of the flights in and out of that airport have been canceled. >>> now we're going to take a look at our weather. of course, mark, not anything like we're seeing in georgia and other areas. >> yeah, we can't shake awful august or september kind of weather pattern like that here.

postal service for that last-mile delivery to homes.imates, two thirds of its packages it makes sense usps already goes to every residential address so it's a less expensive option for amazon, and at times fedex and ups who also used the postal service, but unlike the private carriers, the postal service is in financial trouble, even excluding the 10s of billions in unrefunded retiree benefits, they have plunged. package delivery has become the answer they have been expanding that. keep in mind, even in fiscal 2017, it wasn't enough to stop the overall declines which brings us back to rates. regulators dictate what the usps charges and those charges are capped even megan brennan wants to see those caps removed partial rates are low. artificially low, according to fedex and ups which has testified and lobbied about this on the hill. but unless congress passes legislation, that's not going to change the post office would like to be smarter rather than say dumber about package pricing and shipping, but the question is will congress let the

make sure you check with the postal service and make sure what you're shipping doesn't have any specialequirements. to get your packages delivered by christmas day, here are four have first class packages to the post office by december 16th. december 19th for first class mail, including greeting cards. december 20th is the cutoff for priority mail and december 22nd for priority mail express. don't forget the post office is offering extra options, including christmas day and sunday delivery. in northwest, i'm justin finch, news 4. >>> just to remind us, if you're sending packages to alaska, hawaii, you may need to ship them earlier. double-check the dates with the post office. >>> holocaust survivor turned 101 years old. the museum threw her a party to celebrate. she's been volunteering at the museum for more than 20 years. part of the first person program. it allows people to speak with survivors. us -- >> i hope and i think i have -- >> she has such an amazing emotional story to tell. she's not letting anyone slow her down. when someone said she was too old to volunteer, that made her

the postal service expects to handle 400 million packages in the two weeks before christmas and todays the busiest of the weeks. we have more now from san jose. >> my mother, in arizona, son in new hampshire. >> christmas presents to my sister and husband in boise idaho. >> my older sister? louisville. >> holiday packages heading to all corners of the country for christmas, hopefully. >> we will see. so it's kind grateful, it's christmas, i will try to get it there by the 25th. >> the united states postal service is operating in overdrive, it will handle 400 million packages in the two weeks before christmas. 10% more than last year. >> just this facility alone will be processing 700 million total pieces of mail. of that, $169,000 will be packages like this behind me. >> there was a line and customers were in good spirits. >> the line was out of the door. and we had an appointment and other errands to run, we came back more sdplimpt an emergency last week, i had to go out of town. so kind of put a plans here i am. >> reporter: thes custome custot in under the wire. on wednesday, you w

. >>> it is the pre-christmas rush for the postal service. this week is expected to be the busiest of the holiday season for the package delivery companies, the postal service expects to exceed its initial forecast of nearly $8 lly 850 m packages. >>> and the increase in package deliveries is directly tied to the rise in online shopping. so it might seem odd that an old-school, more traditional way of browsing for items is making a comeback. the snail mail catalog. courtney reagan has our story. >>> catalogs may seem outdated, but you again you may see the surge this time of year. retailers are getting better. catalogs are good at piquing interest. that combination could lead to more sales, which is why the push to send them spikes during the holidays than other big spending events like moving or having children. liken it it to deliver inspiration tosh. >> delivering the whole story to someone's doorstep -- >> but if done right, sfwlz an average return 6 $3, and $9 for every dollar s for marketing sp effectiveness. ev those companies that sta

postal service is asking customers to help play santa. people interested in making a child's wish come true this holiday season can go to the san francisco main post office on tuesdays. you can sign up to read a child's letter and help santa fill the wishes. the postal service says in many cases children ask for basic necessities such as food, clothing, our shelter. santa is busy and needs your help. >> okay, we'll help him, pam. >>> it's cost consumers $350 million every year because of the higher prices of eggs. more on the 12 states teaming up to challenge a california egg law. >>> and we continue to follow the developing news of a fast growing wildfire in southern california. you can see it burning close to homes. homes are evacuated and have burned and we'll talk about the biggest challenge for firefighters as they try to bring the fire under control. >>> we're off to a decent start. northbound 101 traffic looks good approaching the 80 split. >> outside our doors, the winds are slowly coming down. and the advisory allowed to expire f

first of all, the postal service says and the u.p.s.you haven't yet gotten your package, if it hasn't been delivered yet, don't show up at the nearest sorting facility, trying to get it from them. they're probably not going to have it. reiterating, of course, if you want it to go by ground with the postal service, you should probably have it there by tomorrow. and lastly, with the postal service delivering 15 billion packages, the word is, whatever you do, you might want to consider having it shipped to the retailer and picking up from the retailer as opposed to waiting for it to come all the way to you, if you're playing the game, if you're rolling the dice. guys, back to you. >> i don't like to gamble with christmas, though. >> wow. >> thank >>> al does his shopping in july. >> all done. >> that's right. well, if you're h that m affected by the snow, it may be slowed down just a bit. we have another clipper coming minnea on into green bay, these effects. 25 million people under winter winds, slow travel, reduced today this clipper com

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postal inspection service is reporting an increase in thefts from postal trucks in the south bay.ost recent theft happened just last week while a truck was out on its route delivering to homes and businesses. ktvu's cristina rendon is in san jose with more. >>> reporter: >> reporter: the theft of mail from a u.s. postal delivery truck happened in the middle of the day in this neighborhood right near downtown san jose. and it is just one of more than a dozen mail thefts from delivery trucks that the u.s. postal service has seen this year. >>> reporter: inside the grill in downtown san jose business is good for the owner. but outside, he has noticed his mail has been missing sporadically throughout the year. >> if it wasn't for the vendors asking about the mail, i wouldn't have known. we have been notified by various vendors, hey, you're not responding to this mail. >> reporter: mail is a hot target for thieves in the south bay. last tuesday, someone broke into the back of a u.s. postal delivery truck on julian street in the middle of the day when the letter carrier was away from th

postal inspection service is reporting an increase in theft from its trucks. the most recent happened last week when one mail carrier was on his route delivering mail to homes and businesses. hears more about the warning issued to people in the area. >> reporter: inside the china island grill in downtown san jose, business is good for the owner but outside, he's noticed his mail has gone missing sporadically throughout the year. >> if it wasn't for our vendors contacting us asking about the mail, i wouldn't have known actually. so, we've been notified by various vendors saying, hey, you are not responding to this mail. >> reporter: mail is a hot target for thieves in the south bay. last tuesday, someone broke into the back of the u.s. postal delivery truck on julian street in the middle of the day when the letter carrier was away from the truck. it happened less than a mile away from the st. james post office. according to u.s. postal inspector, jeff pitch. >> we are aware of the addresses that are trying to determine what mail was taken. >> reporter: it is st

nbc news' tom costello is tracking it all from a postal service in northern virginia. >> hey, guys, good morning. santa claus may be able to do it all around the world in one night f. you want your package there on time, ground delivery with the postal service, you got to get it in tomorrow. ups, the world's biggest shipping company is bringing on 100,000 people if december just to hands him the demand of cyber monday. they're still struggling with that. now the clock is ticking for christmas.with three-quarters on packages in these brown trucks before christmas, will they make it to your home for the holidays? >> it's important to me that they get it there on time. i want to make sure my family opens their presents on the christmas. >> reporter: but with hanukkah already here, many gifts ordered on cyber monday aren't yet. some angry customers on twitter showing their ups packaging boomeranging back to the same distribution center not delivered. why the delay? they say the cyber week surge exceeded the plans, expecting 40 million more packages, ups says we have return

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or >>> new at 5:00 the postal service is dealing with an extra heavy load of holiday deliveries, john ramos on the busiest week of the year for mail carriers. to friends in >> reporter: the line at concord's main post office was predictably long on this busiest mailing day of the year. all those gifts bought over the weekend hit the road today. mark pachupo of sending chocolate from the philippines to friends in utah. hidden behind that stack of boxes is kathy omarosa. once this is over you get to start enjoying the holidays? >> yes. i get to relax a little the minute i get back in the car. >> reporter: the pressure is on to get the perfect gift to loved ones on time and that's only possible because of what they do here in oakland's processing and distribution center. >> today we're expecting132,000 packages going out this evening. >> reporter: and that's just this evening. packages from all over the bay area are processed, sent down these conveyor belts to yellow bins that are loaded into airplanes and sent to every corner of the country. add to that an expected 1 million letters, ha

postal service's 850 million packages, and the numbers are extraordinary. how is it all going? based on third party data from ship matrix, pretty well. performance for fedex ground last week was 98%. for ups ground, 97%, after some early hiccups after thanksgiving. s says demand for its services, quote, remains very strong. we have returned to our original chief operating plan, normal delivery time, and transit. fred smith says, quote, fedex is on track for a record holiday season. so far the company calls at it as for the postal service, last mile delivery which amazon uses heavily, has been on time 99% of the time and volumes have been higher than expected. for each of the sundays in december, the government agency er ecasts 6 million package 10.5 million. while the cost to deliver all those shipments won't be known until earnings, overall operations do seem to be going as planned. for "nightly business r" i'm morgan brennan at >>> well, with this year's holiday shopping season almost in the, we' looking ahead to 2018. what might the retail environment look and what trends co

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