{"id":58607,"date":"2017-11-24T22:19:31","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T22:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viconsortium.com\/?p=58607"},"modified":"2017-11-24T22:19:31","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T22:19:31","slug":"postal-service-continues-sunday-pickup-and-delivery-efforts-in-usvi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.viconsortium.com\/?p=58607","title":{"rendered":"Postal Service Continues Sunday Pickup And Delivery Efforts In USVI Ahead Of Cyber Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anticipating a busy holiday mailing season, postal operations continue with a normal Saturday and a strong Sunday schedule in the U.S. Virgin Islands as Cyber Monday \u2013 traditionally one of the heaviest days for online shopping each holiday season \u2013 brings an avalanche of packages to addresses nationwide starting this week, the Postal Service announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>In the period between Thanksgiving and New Year\u2019s Day, the Postal Service also expects to deliver 850 million packages nationwide, which is more than a 10 percent increase compared to the same period last year. Regional volumes are predicted to trend in the same direction, according to Caribbean postal officials.<\/p>\n<p>In the U.S. Virgin Islands on Sunday, the East End, Emancipation Gardens and Charlotte Amalie postal facilities will provide pickup and delivery service from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The Cruz Bay Post Office will provide service from 10 am to 2:00 pm. All USVI postal facilities will open for regular business on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Customers who previously visited the Veterans Drive Annex in St. Thomas for mail pickup are still directed to Charlotte Amalie this weekend, although postal officials report the Veterans Drive location will reopen on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Customers of the Frederiksted Post Office in St Croix will continue to visit the Kingshill Post Office for mail pickup.<\/p>\n<p>No locations will offer retail services, such as stamp sales or money order transactions, on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>More than 6 million packages are expected to be delivered each Sunday in December nationwide, with heavy volumes anticipated in the Caribbean. To handle the surge in volume, local Postal Service officials continue Sunday delivery operations in select high package volume locations during the holiday season and provide additional weekend retail and pickup hours in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anticipating a busy holiday mailing season, postal operations continue with a normal Saturday and a strong Sunday schedule in the U.S. Virgin Islands as Cyber Monday \u2013 traditionally one of the heaviest days for online shopping each holiday season \u2013 brings an avalanche of packages to addresses nationwide starting this week, the Postal Service announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,191,147],"tags":[7416,68],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Postal Service Continues Sunday Pickup And Delivery Efforts In USVI Ahead Of Cyber Monday - V.I. 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