NEW YORK (AP) — For UPS, it’s beginning to look a lot like a normal Christmas.
Wednesday was forecast to be the busiest day of the year for the world’s largest package delivery company. It expects to deliver a record 24 million shipments worldwide in 24 hours. That is 9 percent higher than last year and 2007 — the year before the recession took hold. It’s 60 percent higher than a normal day.
UPS’s smaller rival, FedEx, had its busiest day last week, when the company predicted it would pick up a record 16 million shipments Dec. 13. That’s up 13 percent from last year and double that of a normal day.
FedEx defines its busiest day in terms of shipment pick-ups, while UPS marks its busiest day by number of deliveries.
