Valentine’s Day may be a fun time for couples, but it’s also a very stressful time for the people who deliver their mail and flowers.Dave Massarini, postmaster for the Ames Post Office, said Valentine’s Day is the second biggest holiday for the Ames office, topping even Mother’s Day.”It’s one of our busier individual holidays,” he said. “With the university, lots of people like sending Valentine’s Day cards. Christmas is our largest holiday, but outside of Christmas, I think [Valentine’s Day is] our busiest in terms of outburst of activity.”Kipp Van Dyke, community assistant in Maple Hall, said the Maple-Willow-Larch Hall Desk is backed up with all the packages students are receiving.”When we receive [packages], back in our mail room we usually sort them, but there wasn’t enough room, so they’re just kind of overflowing,” said Van Dyke, junior in child and family services.No extra staff members were called in to help with the overflow, he said.”We’re just working regular hours, so things are backed up a little,” he said.Taryn Bode, freshman in psychology, said she had to wait more than five hours Tuesday to pick up a package from her grandmother at the Maple-Willow-Larch Hall Desk.”It took them all day to get the package ready for me,” she said. “I wasn’t able to get it until right now, which is almost 5:30 [p.m.].”Van Dyke said Valentine’s Day and Christmas share the top spot for most letters and packages coming in to the residence halls.”I say it ties right up there with finals week, because then you get a lot of Christmas packages coming in,” he said.Dan Xayaphanh, hall desk assistant at Linden Hall, said the last few days have been fairly busy because a lot of students are getting multiple packages and flower bouquets.”It’s more towards the females that are getting a lot of flowers,” said Xayaphanh, junior in marketing.Massarini said the standard number of mail carriers make do with the extra load during the days leading up to Valentine’s Day.”Our carriers are used to it,” he said. “It’s a heavier period for that three- to five-day period when everything arrives, but we just take it in stride.”