{"id":18676,"date":"2014-12-24T01:15:16","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T09:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=18676"},"modified":"2014-12-24T01:16:43","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T09:16:43","slug":"usps-holiday-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/usps-holiday-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS Holiday Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/mailmn.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you didn&#8217;t get your package mailed by now, Santa&#8217;s your last hope in bringing Christmas miracles. The United States Postal Service said that there will be residual mail deliveries after Christmas, and some employees will\u00a0deliver packages on\u00a0Dec. 25.\u00a0USPS beat its daily record this week (Monday, Dec. 22) with 28.2 million package deliveries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/visit\/us-postal-service.html\"><strong>Mail Trivia:<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Postal Service began receiving letters to Santa Claus and came up with a plan.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/visit\/california-letters-to-santa.html\">Letters to Santa program<\/a>\u00a0has been around for 100 years or more, accepting mail for Santa at the North Pole.<\/li>\n<li>Hundreds of thousands of children of all ages send letters to \u201cSanta Claus, North Pole, Alaska.\u201d Unless these letters contain a complete Alaska address, they remain in the area they were mailed.<\/li>\n<li>December 15, 2014\u00a0was the\u00a0Postal Service&#8217;s busiest mailing day for holiday cards and packages, when more than 640 million pieces of mail\u00a0were\u00a0processed&#8211;112 million more than an average day.<\/li>\n<li>You can schedule a free Package Pickup\u00a0during regular delivery.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you didn&#8217;t get your package mailed by now, Santa&#8217;s your last hope in bringing Christmas miracles. The United States Postal Service said that there will be residual mail deliveries after Christmas, and some employees will\u00a0deliver packages on\u00a0Dec. 25.\u00a0USPS beat its daily record this week (Monday, Dec. 22) with 28.2 million package deliveries. Mail Trivia: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18676"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}