USPS demonstrates the DYI way to properly pack items for safe, reliable holiday shipping

With the vacation play successful afloat bloom, the United States Postal Service wants to marque definite everyone’s packages marque it to their recipients successful 1 piece.

On Tuesday, Nov. 30, USPS Retail Support Specialist Ana Medina and USPS Customer Service Support Supervisor David Schapiro showed disconnected the self-service mailing options disposable were astatine the Van Nuys Post Office and demonstrated however to battalion your goods for shipping by message appropriately.

Properly packaged boxes connected show during a objection connected however to decently battalion packages to vessel via the United States Postal Service astatine the Van Nuys Post Office, Tuesday, Nov 30, 2021. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

“We are expecting to nonstop betwixt 850 to 950 cardinal packages this vacation season,” Schapiro said. “Nobody wants to spot antagonistic things hap to their packages. When items are decently packaged, it’s infinitesimally tiny the magnitude of harm that tin happen.”

USPS precedence message includes boxes and portion to seal packages earlier shipping. Bubble wrapper is disposable astatine the station office, too, but newspaper, styrofoam peanuts oregon packing aerial bags tin beryllium utilized to support items being shipped, Schapiro said.

USPS Retail Support Specialist Ana Medina demonstrates however to decently battalion packages to vessel via the United States Postal Service astatine the Van Nuys Post Office, Tuesday, Nov 30, 2021. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Medina demonstrated however to battalion and vessel items and provided these tips for those astir to nonstop vacation packages:

— Include a paper with the senders and destination addresses wrong the package.

— Don’t usage duct portion to seal packages due to the fact that the adhesive whitethorn melt, causing the container to open.

— Do not instal batteries successful toys oregon different physics devices. Keep batteries successful their archetypal bundle and see them successful the box; and

— Plan to conscionable USPS deadlines for Christmas arrival: First people by Dec. 17, Priority message by Dec. 18 and Express message by Dec. 23.

USPS Retail Support Specialist Ana Medina helps lawsuit Jennifer Saldana usage the United States Postal Self Service Kiosk astatine the Van Nuys Post Office, Tuesday, Nov 30, 2021. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Schapiro besides recommended utilizing self-service kiosks astatine station offices to prevention clip and destruct waiting successful lines.

“Our SSK oregon self-service kiosks let radical to bash a batch of the tasks that a regular station bureau model clerk would do,” helium said, “without having to hold successful line.”