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It's my pleasure to welcome you to the Clark Howard Show,

where it's all about you learning ways to save more and spend less.

And don't only whenever rip you off, so got a hit with you was something that we started talking about back in October.

And that is, there was a train wreck coming for Christmas shopping.

This year, so many people buying gifts online that would normally buy in a store,

that it's completely overwhelmed the package delivery infrastructure,

especially at FedEx and UPS.

The Postal Service doing its thing is best it can, but hey,

the reality is there's just way too many packages for the sorting capacity of these package delivery giants.

And for personnel to be trained and get it done.

In fact, there's a report today that there's now seven million more packages scheduled for delivery each day,

then FedEx and UPS have any ability to deliver for this Christmas season.

That's why, I don't know if you've heard this,

but the package delivery services are now refusing pickups at a lot of major retailers

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