Post office seeing major uptick in shipping boxes this season

Huntington County Tab:

The boxes just keep coming.

So many boxes, in fact, that the Huntington Post Office is already seeing Christmas shipping records set and shattered.

Julie Przybylinski, supervisor of customer services at the local post office, says the growing popularity of online shopping can be credited with the uptick in post office business - which became very evident when UPS made its daily delivery on Tuesday, Nov. 30.

"Normally, we don't hit over 200 packages until well into December," Przybylinski says. "Last year, it was quite a ways into the holiday season."

This year, though, UPS delivered 249 packages to the post office on the last day of November.....