[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 519]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                U.S. POSTAL SERVICE SETS HOLIDAY RECORD

  (Mrs. LAWRENCE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. LAWRENCE. Mr. Speaker, I stand before you today to recognize a 
Federal agency that I am proud to say that I was a part of for many 
years: the United States Postal Service. I recall the pride and the 
sense of responsibility in delivering the U.S. mail.
  I am honored to share the most recent achievement of the postal 
service with you. Sunday deliveries and other adjustments to mail 
processing were instrumental in allowing the United States Postal 
Service to set holiday season records, with 524 million packages 
delivered in December. That is up 18 percent from 2013.
  The United States Postal Service has reported it delivered more than 
28 million packages on December 22, the busiest day and the largest 
single day for package delivery in its history. The package delivery 
record on December 22 was set while the United States Postal Service 
also delivered about 463 million pieces of mail.
  Mr. Speaker, I want to take this moment to recognize and applaud the 
hardworking individuals who made this possible and to also say another 
118,000 packages were delivered on Christmas Day.

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