Canada Post gears up for “record-breaking” holiday parcel volumes

Canada Post gears up for “record-breaking” holiday parcel volumes

Canada Post has announced that it has hired an additional 2,000 temporary workers and will again deliver on weekends in major urban centres starting in November in anticipation of its “busiest season in history”. The company added that it has also “doubled its capacity in transportation” to cope with extra demand.

In a statement issued today (2 November), Canada Post noted: “For the first half of the year, parcel volumes linked to e-commerce have grown 18% compared to the previous year and holiday-level parcel volumes were noted in the summer for the back-to-school season. During the months of November and December last year, Canada Post delivered more than 36 million parcels to Canadians.

“Canada Post expects December 14th to be the busiest day of the year for delivery agents and retail stores across the country, with an anticipated 3,400 parcels delivered each minute while processing plants will peak a few days later (December 16th) with 1,500 parcels processed each minute.”

 

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