NEW YORK — Call it the pregame show for Santa and his elves. Monday is expected to be the busiest day in FedEx history, with nearly 16 million packages moving on its conveyer belts, trucks and planes. That’s up 13 percent from 14.2 million on the busiest day last year and double what the company handles on a normal day.
That jump in shipments bodes well for the nation’s retailers, online stores and larger rival UPS, which has its single busiest day next week.
FedEx’s busiest day is the high-water mark of a holiday season in which it expects to move 223.3 million shipments worldwide. That’s 86 packages delivered every second from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas Eve. UPS will deliver almost double that — 430 million packages — between the two holidays.
The Associated Press
