Welcome To the Busiest Mailing Day of the Year

You better set aside some extra time if you're going to the post office today.

The Monday before Christmas week is usually the busiest day of the year for postal workers.

And it's not just the postal service.

UPS and FedEx alone are preparing to ship more than 850 million packages worldwide this holiday season.

In the event that your "special delivery" doesn't arrive as planned, company officials say you should do two things.

First, you should document what you see.

Secondly, you should snap a photo of the damaged box before you open it and look inside, and then take more pictures of what's damaged.

Shipping experts, however, say the best thing you can do is buy insurance.

If you don't, they compare it to going to Vegas - you're rolling the dice.