Christmas is officially one week away! Are all your packages shipped?! One of the busiest places this time of year is Reno's post office on Vassar Street, from customers waiting in line, or employees trying to process packages an mail on time.
"It's just our time to shine," said Karren Little, a supervisor at USPS. "Everybody gets together. We do little things in the back to keep each other pumped up. We just have the most amazing staff here." Â
Last year, 200,000 parcels came in and out of this building each day. The facility on Vassar is a processing plant, meaning the mail that comes in, is usually delivered within a day. Talk about a record breaking year for the United States Postal Service.Â
They're expected to deliver 600 million packages, and 15.5 billion pieces of mail total between Thanksgiving and Christmas.Â
The lines are not unbearably long at the Vassar Street location. People who we talked to in line said even though there's a small wait, they don't mind.Â
"This is the second post office I stopped at," said Lee Ann Carranza, who's mailing gifts to a town south of Chicago. "I was at the Steamboat Parkway office. Â It was crazy, so I came here. I've had better luck with the line here."
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Monday, December 21 is the deadline to send mail by priority mail. Wednesday, the 23rd is the deadline for express mail. USPS will deliver mail on Christmas.Â
