Shipping giants rush to deliver holiday packages

(AP) - The holiday shipping crunch is expected to peak Monday for UPS.

By: The Associated Press | WNCT
Published: December 21, 2009

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(AP) - The holiday shipping crunch is expected to peak Monday for UPS.
The world's largest shipping carrier projects it will deliver about 22 million small packages.
For the entire holiday season, UPS plans to deliver roughly 400 million packages worldwide, up slightly from last year.
The Atlanta-based shipper hired about 50,000 seasonal workers to keep pace with the extra volume this holiday season.
Rival FedEx shipped more than 14 million packages on Dec. 14. That beat the company's projection for its peak day of the year by more than a million and was the busiest day in FedEx history by more than 2 million.
Peak projections from UPS and FedEx are closely watched because they tend to indicate how the broader economy is doing.

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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