HALIFAX – It’s a feeling of hustle and bustle inside the Canada Post processing plant in Halifax as the holiday season gets underway.
Director of operations Paula Barnet said this week is the start of the plant’s busy season as it processes and delivers Christmas letters and parcels.
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Over the past weekend, the plant processed 40,000 parcels and 2.3 million pieces of letter mail.
Barnet said that is double what moves through the plant on an average day.
She said the deadline for Christmas cards and letters sent to the United States is this week, while the deadline for domestic mail is next week. The deadline has already passed for international mail.
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