Scott Rasmussen's Number of the Day for December 18, 2017
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December 18, 2017: The U.S. Postal Service expects to deliver 15 billion pieces of mail this holiday season. Nearly 3 billion will be delivered this week alone.
Because of the enormous volume, the Postal Service says that tomorrow—December 19—is the last day to drop a card in the mail if you want it to arrive by Christmas.
Of course, it’s not just cards that get sent during the holiday season. The Postal Service expects to ship 850 million packages.[1]
On top of that, private carriers will deliver over a billion packages. UPS expects to deliver 750 million packages, with FedEx handling 400 million more.[2]
With so much shipping going on, there are naturally concerns about delays. To address that concern, Fortune magazine reports that “many brick and mortar retailers are encouraging customers to ship items to their local stores. Since those items are handled by different contractors, they often don’t experience the same shipping delays.”[2]
Each weekday, Scott Rasmussen’s Number of the Day explores interesting and newsworthy topics at the intersection of culture, politics, and technology.
- December 15, 2017 – 11 million dollars to produce first ''Star Wars'' movie
- December 14, 2017 – 61 percent of Americans have no opinion on Medicare for All
- December 13, 2017 – 1.46 billion dollars lost by Uber in third quarter of 2017
- December 12, 2017 – 6,243 D.C. lobbyists worked on tax issues this year
- December 11, 2017 – 11.1% of D.C. adults are heavy drinkers, top in nation
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