“Twas the day of Christmas, houses filled with holiday cheer. Children on the look out for Santa’s reindeer. Behold to their surprise he did appear, delivering Express Mail in postal gear.”

SAN JOSE, CA - You won’t hear their steps on the rooftop nor see them drop down the chimney, but their knock on the door will fill the house with cheer on Christmas morning. Letter carriers, serving as Santa’s helpers, will dash like ‘Comet and Blitzen’ to make their appointed rounds on Christmas Day. As in Christmas’ past, volunteers in postal blue, including one dressed in full Santa attire, will be helping the “jolly ole’ guy” make those last-minute deliveries in the ‘Nick’ of time.

Operating out of the Robertsville Station (address), starting at 9AM, Sunday, December 25, 10 letter carriers will be loading their postal sleighs with Express Mail for San Jose city deliveries. Letter carriers will sort and deliver every piece of Express Mail to every house until nothing is left stirring at the Post Office, not even a mouse.

Media Alert: To follow postal carriers on their Santa Express Mail deliveries, contact Mark Ellis at (408) 448-1812, or cell (408) 599-1185.

Express Mail service offers reliable, affordable next-day delivery to most locations, plus free tracking and proof of delivery. The last recommended day for mailing holiday gifts by Express Mail is Dec. 22.

For mailing those last-minute, must-have holiday greeting cards, letters and gifts, the Express Mail Flat Rate Envelope is available for one low flat rate to any state. The cost is $18.30, regardless of weight or distance. For holiday delivery, there is a $12.50 "premium" added to the price.

For more mailing information, customers can contact the Postal Service at 1-800-ASK-USPS or visit usps.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. 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.