GLENDALE, CA — The Postal Service has opened up a whole new way for businesses to contact local markets with business messages quickly, easily, and cost-effectively. Every Door Direct Mail (EDDM) offers a reach unparalleled by any other method to build more traffic and find new customers.

EDDM is perfect for businesses that have not tried Direct Mail and want to benefit from its effectiveness. Save time on mail preparation, and save cost, with no permit fees or mailing list needed. The EDDM Retail option allows businesses to mail small volumes (200 - 5,000 pieces within an area serviced by a single Post Office) at the retail counter using cash, check, or debit card. Businesses just need to register to utilize EDDM Retail.

Now the “butcher, baker and pizza pie maker” can reach every mailbox with EDDM and EDDM Retail to get complete coverage to any designated delivery route with a simplified address of “Postal Customer.” Visit usps.com/everydoordirectmail for more information on EDDM and EDDM Retail.

Businesses in Glendale can learn more about EDDM and EDDM Retail — and other programs that can benefit virtually any business — by joining the Postal Service at a free one-hour “Grow Your Business” seminar at 1:00 p.m. on Sept. 16, 2011, at the Glendale Post Office, 313 E. Broadway.

To reserve your spot at this no-cost event, just visit USPS.com/growyourbusinessdays.

For additional information call Business Development Specialist Rene Anderson at 661-775- 6692.

We’re everywhere so you can be anywhere: www.uspseverywhere.com

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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. We’re everywhere so you can be anywhere: www.uspseverywhere.com. 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.