What:

The Cloverdale Pharmacy is set to celebrate the grand opening of Cloverdale’s first Village Post Office. Village Post Offices, or VPOs, are usually located in established businesses, giving them the added retail advantage of providing customers convenient access to the postal products and services used most often by consumers.

Who:

Debbie Brady, Marketing Manager, San Francisco District
Rick Cordova, Acting Postmaster, Cloverdale, Calif.
Fred Besio, Owner, Cloverdale Pharmacy

When:

Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014, 11 a.m.

Where:

Cloverdale Pharmacy
790 S Cloverdale Blvd
Cloverdale, CA 95425

Why:

Located in Cloverdale, Calif., the Cloverdale Pharmacy VPO will offer Forever stamps, prepaid packages and Priority Mail Flat Rate boxes and envelopes and is the perfect place for residents and visitors to pick up stamps and mail letters, packages, memorable photos and postcards in downtown Cloverdale. The Cloverdale Pharmacy is open from 9 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday and 10 a.m.to 5 p.m. on Saturdays.

Background:

As the U.S. Postal Service continues to evolve to better meet its customer needs, it is rethinking how to provide more convenient access to postal products and services. One concept developed is the Village Post Office. VPOs are part of the Postal Service’s “Approved Postal Provider” network – retail outlets for postal products and services. Approved Postal Providers are operated by third parties and complement the Postal Service’s own network by offering customers expanded retail access to postal products and services at convenient hours and locations.

To date, there are over 700 VPOs open in the United States.