Ft. Myers / Cape Coral, Fl — There is a new location for taking care of normal postal service business—your local Office Depot store.  Office Depot locations are now cooperating with USPS by providing mailing services through the Postal Service in their stores.  Both Office Depot and USPS agree that the collaboration is a good fit for the changing needs of their customers.

Office Depot will be providing mailing services to its customers by providing the convenience of shipping while they shop.  Postal Service shipping and mailing products are available at nearly 1,100 Office Depot stores across the country.  Priority Mail Flat Rate boxes and envelopes, Priority Mail service, Express Mail service, Parcel Post, stamps, Delivery Confirmation and Signature Confirmation are also available at these Office Depot stores.

Locally, the Office Depot locations participating with the Postal Service are:

13550 Cleveland Ave North Fort Myers, Fl 33903
7091 College Pkwy. Fort Myers, Fl 33907
4971 S. Cleveland Ave, Fort Myers, Fl 33907

The partnership with Office Depot is an example of how the Postal Service is adjusting products and services to better fit the changing needs of its customers, while finding creative solutions to generate much needed revenue.  Expanding access to products and services is one of the key components of the Postal Service’s action plan for the future.

For more information about purchasing stamps, stamps by mail, postal regulations, a free subscription to USA Philatelic magazine, Post Office events, the location of the nearest postal store or contract unit, or for answers to your specific Postal Service questions, contact USPS at 1-800-275-8777, or visit www.usps.com.  To schedule a presentation for your community, club or group on how the Postal Service brings the Post Office to your home or office computer, call 239-573-9638.

Mr. Zip’s Tip: According to a research survey commissioned by Pitney Bowes, 73 percent of consumers prefer mail over e-mail when it comes to product announcements. There’s a larger spread in mail’s favor—86 percent—when it comes to how consumers want to receive financial and other confidential information.

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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 five 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.