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7 Day a Week Postal Service Delivery Under Way in Bethesda, Chevy Chase
The USPS says its carriers will deliver cards and packages every day between now and Christmas Day. And, check out their shipping deadlines.
Neither rain, nor gloom nor Sundays will keep U.S. Postal Service carriers off the job this holiday season.
The service plans to deliver to Bethesda, Chevy Chase and other parts of the D.C. regions on Sundays through Christmas.
The agency, which already has a partnership with Amazon.com for Sunday deliveries, says it will deliver to major cities and other high-volume areas seven days a week starting this week and running through Christmas Day.
Find out what's happening in Bethesda-Chevy Chasefor free with the latest updates from Patch.
The extra delivery day will help the postal service deliver an estimated 470 million packages this holiday season, up from 420 million last year, the Wall Street Journal reports. Letter carriers will also deliver more than 12 billion cards and letters in the next month.
WJLA TV says residents in these D.C. area zip codes can look forward to holiday package delivery seven days a week: 20001-20012; 20015-20020; 20024; 20036-20037; 20601-20603; 20607; 20613; 20619; 20622; 20636-20637; 20639-20640; 20646; 20650; 20653; 20657; 20659; 20676; 20678; 20685; 20695; 20705-20708; 20711-20712; 20714-20716; 20720-20724; 20732; 20735-20737; 20740; 20743-20748; 20754-20755; 20759; 20762; 20764; 20769; 20770; 20772; 20774; 20776-20777; 20781-20785; 20794; 20814-20818; 20832-20833; 20837; 20841; 20850-20855; 20860-20861; 20866; 20871-20871; 20874; 20876-20879; 20882; 20886; 20895; 20901-20906; 20910; 20912.
Find out what's happening in Bethesda-Chevy Chasefor free with the latest updates from Patch.
The seven-day-a-week delivery schedule includes all Bethesda, Chevy Chase and North Bethesda zip codes, reports BethesdaNow. The 20814, 20815, 20816, 20817, 20852 and 20895 zip codes are part of the extended service.
Customers should follow the holiday shipping deadlines below to ensure packages make it to their destination by Christmas, says the postal service.
Dec. 2 - First-Class Mail International/Priority Mail International
Dec. 10 - Priority Mail Express International
Dec. 15 - Standard Post
Dec. 17 - Global Express Guaranteed
Dec. 20 - First-Class Mail/Priority Mail (domestic)
Dec. 23 - Priority Mail Express (domestic)
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