OAKLAND, CA — Even as Santa prepares to travel ’round the world, USPS is working ’round the clock to help, with operations flowing 24/7. Postal Service workers are hard at work daily and nightly throughout the holiday period, including Sundays. Those important and endearing cards, letters and packages you’ve selected and addressed will be collected, processed and delivered quicker than a racing reindeer sleigh.

Best of all, you don’t even need to leave the warm comfort of home in order to make this happen. Wrap up the holidays in front of the fireplace. Check your address list, then check it twice, and go to www.usps.com, select Wrap Up the Holidays for detailed shipping dates. You can also order free Priority Mail Flat Rate Boxes, print shipping labels with postage using Click-N-Ship service, and schedule free Package Pickup.

On the road again? USPS Mobile gives you instant, on-the-go access to the most popular tools on www.usps.com. Track a package, find Post Offices and retail hours, calculate prices, and look up ZIP Codes. You can be anywhere and find what you need from the USPS.

Check for products and services at www.usps.com, at convenient Self-Service Ship and Mail Center kiosks and at neighborhood Contract Postal Units and other Approved Postal Providers.
Happy Holidays from The United States Postal Service.

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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 direct support from taxpayers. With 36,000 retail locations and the most frequently visited website in the federal government, the Postal Service relies on the sale of postage, products and services to pay for operating expenses. Named the Most Trusted Government Agency six consecutive years and the sixth Most Trusted Business in the nation by the Ponemon Institute, the Postal Service has annual revenue of more than $68 billion and delivers nearly half the world’s mail. If it were a private sector company, the U.S. Postal Service would rank 28th in the 2009 Fortune 500.