DULUTH, GA — Busy consumers can buy, address and mail a greeting card while conducting other Postal Service business under a year-long pilot program launched earlier this month. The Postal Service is testing a limited line of greeting cards in about 500 Post Offices. Initial sites were chosen based on availability of display space, the number of customers visiting the location and convenience to customers. An additional 1,000 locations will begin offering cards after the first of the year. In the Atlanta area, greeting cards are available at the following locations:
| Pharr Road Station (Atlanta) | 575 Pharr Road, NE |
| Roswell Postal Store | 10719 Alpharetta Hwy |
| Conyers Main Post Office | 1705 Hwy 138 SE |
| Cumming Main Post Office | 525 Tribble Gap Road |
| Decatur Main Post Office | 520 W Ponce de Leon Ave. |
| Fayetteville Main Post Office | 250 Georgia Ave. E |
| McDonough Post Office | 100 Postmaster Dr. |
| Peachtree Corners Branch (Nocross) | 5600 Spalding Dr. |
| Suwanee Post Office | 990 Peachtree Industrial Blvd. |
Offering greeting cards on a limited basis serves as a market test to determine if customer interest is high enough to warrant expanding the program throughout the country according to Kate F. Wiley, Atlanta District Manager. “Greeting cards are a great way to let someone know you are thinking about them,” Wiley says. “This will be a real time saver. We believe our customers will like the convenience of having greeting cards available while doing business at the Post Office.”
More than half of the 7 billion greeting cards sold in the U.S. are sent through the mail. "Cards are incredibly linked to the mail," notes Wiley. "What better place to sell them than at our Post Offices.”
The assortment includes cards for birthdays, baby announcements, encouragement, sympathy and wedding anniversaries. Additional seasonal displays will offer cards appropriate to various holidays and times of the year, including Mother’s Day.
Greeting cards join the selection of shipping and mailing products at the Postal Service designed to better meet the needs of customers. In addition to items like mailing tape, envelopes and packaging, decorative mailing boxes make sending a gift easier than ever.
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