TAMPA FL — Post Offices will be open on Christmas Eve, December 24. Customers who need Postal Services during the holiday season will find Post Offices open during their normal hours of operation on Christmas Eve.

Post Offices will be closed on Christmas Day, December 25, and the following Monday, December 26.

There will be no mail delivery on December 25 and December 26, except for Holiday Premium Express Mail.

Customers are reminded that nearly every service available at a Post Office is available online, 24 hours a day, 7 days per week, at www.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, www.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.