The phrase "handle the backlog" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to managing or addressing a collection of pending tasks or work that has accumulated.
Example: "The team is working hard to handle the backlog of customer inquiries that piled up over the weekend."
Alternatives: "manage the backlog" or "address the backlog."
In 2007 Boeing announced that it would build seven 787s per month in Puget Sound; two years later, to handle the backlog of orders, it announced an expansion to South Carolina.
The union has been a give a legal opinion by John Hendy QC arguing that the use of 30,000 agency staff to handle the backlog of letters caused by the strike is unlawful and warrants a high court injunction.
Some additional flights have been scheduled to handle the backlog of passengers.
Mr. Gonzalez's agency says that the new revenue will allow it to eventually add 1,500 employees to its work force, an increase of about 10percentt, and that staff members have volunteered to work overtime to handle the latest backlog.
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 judge assigned a public defender to handle the request, but the motion languished for three years in a backlog of requests before the Harris County district attorney's office.
Meanwhile, Twitter's lead API developer Alex Payne has admitted that the startup is coping with a 'big support backlog' and that they're trying to hire more people to handle the load.
When the Making Home Affordable program was announced in February, few banks had the systems in place to handle the overwhelming number of requests for modifications that came pouring in -- and they're still struggling with the backlog.
MSHA has made strides toward clearing out that backlog recently, in large part because of millions of dollars in funding used to bring in more government lawyers to handle the cases.
A cobwebbed runner-up is a 1993 query about the Sicilian mafia in the 1940s, according to the study, which FOIA-ed pending FOIA requests to get a handle on the backlog.
As a result, it first had to clear the backlog before handling the new transactions flooding in.
