Holiday Gift Package Delivery Surges; UPS Reports Busiest Day of the Year

United Parcel Service reports Tuesday December 21 as their busiest day of the year. Faced with delivering an estimated 20 million, mostly Christmas gift packages throughout the country for Chrismas, UPS added that workers will be working overtime including more heavy lifting than originally forecasted.

Figures released by UPS included 3,000 packages per minute being sorted through 122 miles of high-speed conveyor belts and 10 million packages were loaded on over 600 airplanes. Additional UPS efforts included seasonal hires unloading packages from trucks and sorting them into air cans and UPS over head scanning technology that helped the automated sorting of packages.

UPS will be delivering through Christmas eve this year.