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...Most of us have already bought our holiday presents, of course. USPS shipping hit a high-water mark on Monday, Dec. 14, when post offices processed a whopping 800 million pieces of mail, a 40% spike over the typical load. A FedEx spokesman said the 14th was also that carrier's busiest day; the delivery service processed and sent out 13 million packages. Why Dec. 14? FedEx calls the date a "perfect storm" - packages were backed up from the weekend, and shoppers were rushing to beat the end of many retailers' free-shipping offers. The carrier says...
...when they expect to process 22 million packages (a typical day, by contrast, involves only 15 million). And if you really want to push it, major carriers will accept holiday shipping as late as Dec. 23 - two days later than the deadline for first-class and priority mail shipments through the USPS. For the privilege of overnight shipping that arrives at your destination on Christmas eve, you can expect to pay a hefty premium...
Jamshed Bharucha lauded Coleman’s efforts at Tufts in an e-mail to students announcing her departure...
...Julia C. Tartaglia ’11, Phoebe Kuo ’11, and William B. Peck ’12 against each other. (None of them, according to Tartaglia and Peck, had been involved in the controversial "break-in" that we told you about yesterday.) In an e-mail sent over the Eliot open list, Montelongo revealed everything that went down in this electrifying final round...
...strategy didn't work quite as planned. According to Montelongo's e-mail, the other contestants threw a wrench into the mix. Kuo, unaware that Tartaglia was "dead," attacked her anyway. Tartaglia managed to kill Kuo (her target) but ended up stunned. Peck (Kuo's, and now Tartaglia's, target), meanwhile, barricaded himself in the bathroom and refused to come out. “I hid so Alfredo couldn’t kill me," Peck said. "I wanted my friend, Brianne Corcoran, to keep the title of ‘Most Kills...