{"id":875649,"date":"2021-10-13T15:13:47","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T19:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=875649"},"modified":"2021-10-13T15:13:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T19:13:49","slug":"we-are-not-the-postal-service-jen-psaki-rebuffs-reporter-over-question-about-christmas-deliveries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-are-not-the-postal-service-jen-psaki-rebuffs-reporter-over-question-about-christmas-deliveries\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We Are Not The Postal Service\u2019: Jen Psaki Rebuffs Reporter Over Question About Christmas Deliveries"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwe-are-not-the-postal-service-jen-psaki-rebuffs-reporter-over-question-about-christmas-deliveries%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=875649&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki pushed back on concerns over supply chain issues and the possibility that Christmas packages might not arrive on time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/30\/psaki-biden-administration-progress-covid-not-donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Psaki<\/a> said that the while the administration was prepared to take steps to address bottlenecks in the process, especially where shipping was concerned, there was no way for the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/08\/this-next-crisis-could-be-bidens-biggest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">White House<\/a> to make any guarantees. <strong><a class=\"text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/08\/terrible-polls-jen-psaki-unvaccinated\/\">(RELATED: Reporter: \u2018What Do You Make Of These Terrible Polls\u2019 Psaki: \u2018People Still Won\u2019t Get Vaccinated\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on everything being announced today can this administration guarantee the holiday packages will arrive on time?\u201d one reporter asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not the Postal Service, UPS or FedEx. We cannot guarantee,\u201d Psaki replied. \u201cWhat we do is use every lever at the federal government\u2019s disposal to reduce delays, to ensure that we are addressing bottlenecks in the system including ports and the need for them to be open longer hours so that goods can arrive. And we can continue to press not only workers and unions but also companies to take as many steps as they can to reduce these delays.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The USPS has announced the dates for guaranteed delivery over the upcoming holidays.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"12.149152542373\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">USPS says if customers want their packages to get there on time and ship on the ground, they must mail them by Dec. 15.<\/p>\n<p>First-class packages must be shipped by Dec. 17, and customers must send priority mail by Dec. 18<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7ALl3XgknV\">https:\/\/t.co\/7ALl3XgknV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dcexaminer\/status\/1448340335168524288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 13, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the USPS, all first-class packages should be shipped by Dec. 17, and priority mail by Dec. 18. Larger packages should be shipped by Dec. 15 if customers want them to arrive on time for Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>And as the Los Angeles Times reported, the White House has already begun to broker deals to keep ports open and running longer hours in order to straighten out some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/10\/christmas-tree-shortage-retailers-reduced-tree-supply-holiday-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">issues<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"10.518987341772\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Port of Los Angeles will operate around the clock as supply chain problems threaten the holiday shopping season.<\/p>\n<p>Administration officials said the plan was brokered by the White House as part of an effort to untangle supply chain problems.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X6wZ0AaTKQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/X6wZ0AaTKQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Los Angeles Times (@latimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/latimes\/status\/1448269294488408071?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 13, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But anything that needs to ship internationally could pose a larger problem.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.629179331307\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The backlogs and delays in international shipping are so severe that a supply chain consultant told the Wall Street Journal this weekend, \u201cIf it wasn\u2019t on the water four weeks ago, it\u2019s not going to be here for Christmas.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JFXQMLqPAk\">https:\/\/t.co\/JFXQMLqPAk<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MS4AunCS47\">pic.twitter.com\/MS4AunCS47<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jimgeraghty\/status\/1447914753242845185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 12, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the Wall Street Journal, one supply chain consultant asserted, \u201cIf it wasn\u2019t on the water four weeks ago, it\u2019s not going to be here for Christmas.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki pushed back on concerns over supply chain issues and the possibility that Christmas packages might not arrive on time.Psaki said that the while the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-875649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}