Beating the Holiday Rush

摘要

Eleventh-hour holiday shoppers learned their lesson in 2013 after UPS and FedEx dropped the ball trying to meet an unexpected rush of last-minute deliveries. Nearly half of U.S. consumers responding to Pitney Bowes' Holiday Shipping Survey plan to buy gifts online earlier this year. The majority of respondents (63 percent) indicate they are doing so to ensure packages arrive on time.