7 Day a Week Postal Service Delivery Under Way in Stone Mountain, Lithonia

Neither rain, nor gloom nor Sundays will keep U.S. Postal Service carriers off the job this holiday season.

The service plans to deliver packages to Stone Mountain, Lithonia and other parts of the Atlanta region on Sundays through Christmas.

The agency, which already has a partnership with Amazon.com for Sunday deliveries, says it will deliver to major cities and other high-volume areas seven days a week starting this week and running through Christmas Day.

The extra delivery day will help the postal service deliver an estimated 470 million packages this holiday season, up from 420 million last year, the Wall Street Journal reports. Letter carriers will also deliver more than 12 billion cards and letters in the next month.

Sunday package delivery is now available throughout most of the Atlanta Metro area to these ZIP codes: 300, 301, 302 303, 305 and 306. This includes the Clarkston, Decatur, Lithonia, Stone Mountain, and Tucker areas of DeKalb County, according to a USPS spokesman.

Holiday shipping deadlines

Customers should follow the holiday shipping deadlines below to ensure packages make it to their destination by Christmas, says the postal service.

Dec. 2 - First-Class Mail International/Priority Mail International
Dec. 10 - Priority Mail Express International
Dec. 15 - Standard Post
Dec. 17 - Global Express Guaranteed
Dec. 20 - First-Class Mail/Priority Mail (domestic)
Dec. 23 - Priority Mail Express (domestic)