It decided to invest another £20 million, or $31 million, to deal with the delivery backlog, including extra deliveries on Sunday.
It is hard for many of us, left thousands of miles from home, to understand the rationale behind not sending out extra planes to clear the backlog, as surely they would be full in both directions?
Angie Stevens, clinical director for children and young people's mental health services for Kent and Medway, said the trust had taken on new staff, was recruiting more, had undergone reorganisation and had laid on extra clinics to clear the backlog.
Some carriers were taking extra measures to clear their backlogs.
"It will take time and extra effort to work through the backlog of activities," Marrett writes.
He said that terminal operators had begun to hire small numbers of additional workers to handle the freight backlog but that as many as 13,000 extra full- and part-time waterfront workers were needed in the Los Angeles ports alone.
"The council is also looking to add extra capital budget to particularly address the backlog of DFGs".
To cut into the backlog, the department hired back retirees, sent extra employees to overwhelmed passport processing offices and scheduled extra shifts.
When pothole complaints started pouring into 311 after a harsh winter, Iris Weinshall, the transportation commissioner, dispatched an extra 150 workers to pothole duty, and the backlog of complaints has dropped to 975 from 3,000.
Of that, £400m is to help A&E units cope with increased demand next winter and the other £250m will be spent on tackling the growing backlog of elective procedures, including 100,000 extra operations this summer.
