If you are expecting a package, you'll have to wait another day. Waiting on a birthday card or the water bill? That's probably not going to show up in your mailbox, either.
UPS is still not making pickups or deliveries in metro Atlanta or parts of six other states, the company said Tuesday morning. FedEx also has suspended pickup and delivery service in Georgia and some other parts of the Southeast.
It’s unlikely you’ll receive mail Tuesday, a U.S. Postal Service spokesman said. Trucks are having trouble getting to major processing plants to pick up mail and take it to delivery centers, Michael Miles, USPS spokesman for the Atlanta area, told the AJC.
The postal service contracts out to other truck drivers to transport most of the mail from the major processing centers, Miles said. Many of those workers are having trouble getting through the ice as well, adding an additional challenge, Miles said.
“We have very few employees who are able to get into work,” Miles said.
“For the most part, in many places, we are at a standstill,” Miles told the AJC. “Normally rain won’t stop us, cold won’t stop us, but in this case, it’s really the ice. Ice has made traveling on the roads so treacherous.”
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