Unlike last year, holiday shipping’s running pretty smoothly — at least, so far
If you still have holiday gifts to ship, you're almost out of time. According to the U.S. Postal Service, if you want any first-class packages to arrive by Dec. 25, you need to get them in the mail by this week.
If you still have holiday gifts to ship, you're almost out of time. According to the U.S. Postal Service, if you want any first-class packages to arrive by Dec. 25, you need to get them in the mail by this week.
In this story published Dec. 13, 2021, on Marketplace:
We're still in a pandemic, and of course there's disruptions. But the last mile part of e-commerce has been much smoother than expected.
– Dale Rogers, professor of supply chain management and ON Semiconductor Professor of Business
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