Islandia, NY — The Postal Service observes Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday on Monday, January 17, 2011 as a holiday.  All post offices in the Long Island District (ZIP Code areas 115, 117, 118, 119) will be closed with the exception of the Postal Store at Roosevelt Field. There will be no mail delivery except for Express Mail.

The Postal Store at Roosevelt Field, Garden City will be open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

With www.usps.com, postal customers can look up a ZIP Code and find addressing information. They can calculate rates and buy stamps; pay for a PO Box or rent a PO Box; have their mail held or forwarded; order shipping supplies - including prepaid, flat-rate Priority Mail envelopes. At usps.com, the Post Office never closes.

For customer convenience, Bellmore, Bethpage, Central Islip, Commack, Deer Park, East Meadow, East Northport, Garden City, Hicksville, Huntington, Huntington Station, Levittown, Lindenhurst, Massapequa, Mineola, North Babylon, North Massapequa, Plainview, Port Jefferson Station, Rockville Centre, Ronkonkoma, Smithtown, Syosset, Valley Stream and Western Nassau Mail Facility window services located in Garden City have 24-hour access to Automated Postal Centers (APC), the Postal Service’s version of the ATM. The APC enables customers to conduct business at their convenience.

Using credit and debit cards, the APC enables customers to:

• Buy self-adhesive stamps.
• Weigh, calculate and purchase postage in amounts for items weighing up to 70 lbs.
• Send items via Express, Priority, and First-Class Mails, as well as by Parcel Post.
• Purchase insurance up to $500.
• Look up ZIP Codes and obtain Postal Service mailing information.
• Obtain Certified Mail, Delivery Confirmation and Return Receipts.
• Obtain a receipt.

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A self-supporting government enterprise, the U.S. Postal Service is the only delivery service that reaches every address in the nation, 150 million residences, businesses and Post Office Boxes. The Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses, and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations. With 32,000 retail locations and the most frequently visited website in the federal government, usps.com, the Postal Service has annual revenue of more than $67 billion and delivers nearly 40 percent of the world’s mail. If it were a private sector company, the U.S. Postal Service would rank 29th in the 2010 Fortune 500. Black Enterprise and Hispanic Business magazines ranked the Postal Service as a leader in workforce diversity. The Postal Service has been named the Most Trusted Government Agency six consecutive years and the sixth Most Trusted Business in the nation by the Ponemon Institute.