Postal Service Announces Holiday Mail Deadlines°and Post Office Hours

Long Island Post Offices are ready to deliver your holidays.

"We expect a very busy holiday mail season. We welcome all the cards, letters and packages our customers give us. Our goal is to provide quick, easy and convenient holiday service," says U.S. Postal Service Long Island District Manager Thomas F. Rosati. The Postal Service has extended window hours until 7 PM from Monday to Friday and until 4 PM on Saturday at the following local Post Offices: Babylon, Bay Shore, Farmingdale, North Babylon , and West Islip.

Long Island's busiest Post Offices have Automated Postal Centers (APCs) - which provide easy access to postal products and services just as ATMs provide easy access to banking services. APC services include weighing and providing postage for packages up to 70 pounds and sending items via Express Mail and Priority Mail. The automated centers, which only accept credit and debit cards, can also provide delivery confirmation, insurance, ZIP code information and sells stamps. They do not accept cash.

Automated Postal Centers are available on Long Island at the following local Post Office locations, seven days a week, 24 hours a day: Deer Park, Lindenhurst, and Massapequa.

The Postal Service expects to deliver 20 billion pieces of mail between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year, with the busiest mailing day set for Monday, Dec. 17. More than 275 million cards and letters should be mailed that day, more than three times the average daily volume of 82 million. Total mail volume (cards, letters, catalogs, packages, magazines) for the busiest day should approach 1 billion, up from an average daily volume of 703 million pieces. The busiest delivery day will be Wednesday, Dec. 19.

Mailing early is key, all First-Class Mail and Priority Mail should be sent by Dec. 20 and Express Mail by Dec. 22. Mail sent by Parcel Post, the most economical service, should be in the mail by Dec. 15.

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