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With millions of Gifts shipped Throughout the country, the American postal service (USPS) is currently in the middle of its busiest season of the year. Fortunately, it is preparing for this: since January 2022, the USPS has implemented new strategies and improvements to help manage the increase in holiday demand. This having been said, the postal service cannot prepare for everything. Now the USPS warns customers of new potential mail delays during the holidays. Read more to find out why your packages may not go to their destination in time.

Read this then: USPS brings these major changes to your deliveries, from January 22 .

During the last month, mail complaints accumulated, with a lot of delays for delivery delays during one of the most important shipping seasons.

"The are extreme delays everyday," Mark Seitz , the president of branch 92 of the National Association of Letter Carriers, which represents approximately 700 postal employees in southern Maine, told the Portland Press Herald . Seitz said the mail for around 15 to 20 routes in the region did not go out every day.

And it's not just Maine. Residents of Colerain Township, Ohio, told WLWT affiliated to NBC on December 15 that they were Obtain only their mail About once a week, and others reported up to two weeks without having their mail delivered.

"I don't know what postal service does, what's going on, but we need our mail," resident Swania cunningham said to the media. "I'm going to check the mailbox every day. I look at it. I will say" oh, nothing. "So I just got to a point where I am like I will check every two weeks. And when I receive mail, I receive piles of mail."

In Camden, South Carolina, the residents told CBS-Affiliate News 19 on December 13 that They faced With regular delays for some time now. "In the past six months, I suppose, perhaps more, we have not received a sometimes daily mail Emily Volz said to the media. "When I called there to ask, we don't even have a permanent driver for our itinerary and we were informed because of the holidays that they will not even hire for our itinerary."

The USPS confirmed in News 19 that the challenges of staff endowment are still creating delivery problems for certain areas like Camden. "Like many other companies at the moment, the postal service in Camden is experiencing temporary endowment problems," said the agency.

USPS spokesperson Mark Lawrence also recently recognized for Lnp that a similar problem causes Delivery delays For Lancaster, Pennsylvania too.

"We meet sporadic challenges with the availability of employees in certain places, causing infrequent impacts to send deliveries," Lawrence to the newspaper told. "During these cases, we continue to deliver packages daily, but customers can see an occasional delay in the mail of the letters."

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Continuous staff challenges are not the only problems that cause delivery delays in December. In Yakima, Washington, many residents have received none of their letters or packages during the second week of the month. USPS spokesperson David Rupert said to Yakima Daily-Herald That these new delivery delays are the result of increased demand and winter weather risks.

"Were Just reach the limitations With hours at a given time, and the volume, "Rupert told the newspaper." When the weather went south, it hampered our effectiveness. You could not reach so many addresses throughout the day. So they had more problems last week. ""

During an interview of December 19 with Newsnation's Peak hour , USPS confirmed to the media that winter storms could lead to shipping and delivery delays in the coming days. Add the pre -existing staff challenges to the mixture and you have a disaster recipe.

"The current hiring constraint, combined with vacation volumes, can make us stretch our capacity beyond its limit and cause pockets of delays in our delivery network". Stephen Doherty , a spokesperson for the northeast region of the USPS, told the Portland Press Herald .

The impact of bad winter weather is felt everywhere. Last week, the USPS temporarily closed About 200 post offices And deliveries suspended in five different states: Minnesota, Nebraska, Northern Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin. According to the agency, the time was to blame, as a massive storm had has brought snow levels Above a foot in these states, by CNN. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

Desai Abdul-Razzaaq , a regional postal service spokesperson, told the Duluth News Tribune On December 14, that operators had also been taken from their routes In the middle of the Northern Blizzard due to security problems.

"We will not deliver mail in a tornado," Abdul-Razzaaq told Minnesota based. "When the weather conditions are so bad and the safety of our carriers is at risk, then, yes, we will cancel until the weather allows."