作者：梦影
从今天起整好还有一个月，2019年圣诞节即将来临，我们邮局职工已进入一年一度马不停蹄的繁忙季节。
您也许会说: “节”骨眼儿的时候，谁不忙啊? 但您一定想像不出邮局职工圣诞月是如何应对比平时多出将近十倍的邮件包裹的。有的内勤人员需要凌晨12点上班接收亚马逊网购货物；前台内勤有时忙得连上卫生间的时间都没有；邮递员早晨来时天还没亮，晚上走时天已黑透了。
在邮局工作将近20年，几乎每年圣诞节后都有顾客前来邮寄因节前未能及时寄出的圣诞礼物。
所以我想给大家提个醒儿，以便您们提早行动，使家人朋友按时收到您们的圣诞祝福和惊喜，避免节日将近不得不花费高额运费。
发送到美国各地的最晚邮寄时限
国际节日信函、包裹最迟邮寄时限。来自美国邮局官网
这里给大家拍了一张邮局官方的“及时发送欢乐”邮寄的截止日期（如上，就是说在此日期前寄出，对方即可在圣诞节前收到），供大家参考。所有邮局正门一周前都应该把此图表贴出来了。
邮局门口张贴的提示
具体价格是根据收件人所在地的邮编重量和包装体积合起来计算的——
1.如果包裹不超过13，盎司，可以选择“头等邮件”价格从$3.66到$5.79之间，一般运程3-4天；
2. 超过13盎司只能选“优先邮件”，起价$7.35，运程一般2-3天；
3. 如果需要第二天到，只有寄“快递邮件”，大部分地区运程一天，但偏远山区或离机场较远需两天，起价$25.50。
凭我的经验，最好在截止日期前去邮寄，避免出现由于天公不作美而耽误邮寄的问题。
如果您还有任何问题，请在下面的评论区提出，我会尽快在午休时间解答。
衷心祝愿所有在美华人圣诞快乐!
Send Your Christmas Greetings
In Time
By Hong Mizelle
Hello everyone!
There is exactly one month left to 2019 Christmas Day from today. Our post office workers have entered an annual non-stop busy season.
You might say, “who’s not busy when you’re at the festival?” But you can’t imagine how the post office staff’s Christmas month responded to nearly ten times more mail parcels than usual. Some office workers need to go to work at 12 am to receive Amazon online purchases; the front clerk are sometimes so busy that they don’t have time to go to the restroom; the postmen & women does not light up when they arrives in the morning, and it is dark totally when they leaves at night.
I worked in the post office for nearly two decades. There were always customers came to post office to send Christmas gifts that were not sending out in time before the holiday, almost every year after Christmas days.
So I would like remind you to act earlier, so that your family and friends will receive your Christmas greetings and surprises on time;
so as to avoid having to spend high shipping costs near the actual day.
Here I took a photo of the official post office’s “Send Joy In Time” mailing deadline (mail before this date, the recipient can get it before Christmas) for your reference.
All post offices should have this chart posted a week ago.
The specific price is calculated based on the weight of the zip code of the recipient’s location and the packaging volume.
1. If the package does not exceed 13ozs, you can choose “first-class mail”. The price ranges from $ 3.66 to $ 5.79, and it usually takes 3-4 days.
2. Only “Priority Mail” can be selected starting from $ 7.35 for more than 13ozs, usually takes
2-3 days;
3. If you need to arrive the next day, only choice is “Express Mail”. Most areas have a one-day guaranteed, but it takes two days for remote mountains or far from the airport, starting at $ 25.50.
In my experience, it is better to go to send at post office before the deadline to avoid the problem of postal delays due to the unexpected bad weather. Holiday supposed to be , right?
If you still have any❓, please feel free to ask me in the Chinese headline group, I’ll try to answer you asap during my lunch break.
Sincerely wish all Chinese in the United States a Merry Christmas!❣
