This is the same idea as I posted yesterday and I think it turned out pretty well. There is good balance with the ornament off to the left. I wish I had put a bow on it. I'm not sure this style has a name. It seems like cross-pollination with MishMash and DuBosch Jubilee.
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Here is a real time add-on. A pen pal asked me why the mail takes so long in December and wondered if my postal worker son had any insight. I've been grilling him since he started in Oct of 2019 and keep getting the same answer. Peak season = too few people handling more than the usual amount of mail
I tried to find a graph that would show some actual numbers - twice as much as usual - or 3 times as much. I'll keep looking - but in the mean time - these are examples of what my son has seen:
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At both stations and the main plant - during peak season - so much mail is brought into the facility that there is hardly room for the workers - it's like a gridlocked/bottleneck situation.
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At the large plants - semis full of mail will have to wait much longer than usual to be unloaded - which delays them being loaded with outgoing mail - more gridlock/bottleneck
Here's an official report if you want to learn about what kinds of things they are trying to implement to cope with peak season.
This is from the PDF - IMHO, it's going to be hard to find 28,000 temp workers.
But, at least they are trying to figure something out.
■ Hiring over 28,000 temporary employees
■ Deploying and installing 50 package sorting machines.
■ Leasing 17 temporary mail processing facilities and 71 delivery annexes.
I like how you pulled colors from the skateboard stamps for the lettering - I think I already commented how festive these envelopes look.
ReplyDeleteFascinating that so much extra capacity is needed around the December holidays. So far mail that has arrived hasn't seemed particularly delayed, even letters and cards coming from Europe.