With inclement winter weather forecast for much of the country this week, New Hampshire resident Laurie Boswell said she can sleep easy because she sent her Californian daughter’s Christmas gift with time to spare during the busy shipping season.
“Regardless of the storm, you could still be in trouble,” she said. “You don’t want any last-minute glitches that could ruin the holidays.”Matthew Hatcher / Bloomberg via Getty Images fileInc., which tracks the shipping industry and its efficiency, said carriers like Amazon, FedEx, UPS and the U.S. Postal Service will be shipping on average a combined 100 million packages a day this week leading up to Christmas.He said about 70 million packages are shipped in a typical day in the fall.
Shipping carriers, however, learned to monitor the weather and work around clusters of storms by sending packages to areas that were more hospitable to get to their final destinations, he said. FedEx also said it has “contingency plans in place to help keep our team members safe and lessen any impact on service.” It encouraged customers to check for weather disruptions affecting service at itsSam Stephenson, an Amazon spokesperson, said in a statement: “We’re closely monitoring reports of inclement weather across the U.S. Our delivery promises factor in forecasted weather and delivery dates are shown transparently at checkout.