CAROL STREAM, IL — Are you looking for a convenient way to send holiday cheer this season? Not sure what to do with all those pictures on your digital camera? Well, not to worry. Now you can turn those precious digital photos into greeting cards and postage stamps with a simple click of the mouse. You can also create a treasured holiday greeting at usps.com without ever leaving the house.
“The Postal Service’s website brings the card store directly to you,” says Northern Illinois District Marketing Manager John Nabor. “With a computer, an internet connection and a digital photo, anyone can design perfect cards and postage stamps.”
At CardStore (usps.com/createmail/) customers can create greeting cards using personal photos or choose from more than 50 card designs, including traditional, religious, multi-cultural and non-denominational images. Ordering online takes only minutes and the cards are printed and shipped the next business day. Customers can choose to have the cards sent directly to recipients or to their own address. Prices start at just $0.79 per card.
Other online options for holiday greetings include Click2Mail and Premium Postcards. Click2Mail provides the perfect solution for end-of-year holiday letters and can be sent by First-Class Mail or Standard Mail rates. Premium Postcards can be created in black and white or full color to announce new holiday products or discounts, to send a personal greeting, say Happy New Year!, or to thank customers for their support throughout the year.
Adding the personal touch doesn’t have to stop with the card. The outside of the envelope can be personalized as well. Customized postage (usps.com/postagesolutions/customizedpostage.htm) allows customers to create postage using digital photos or images — a family photo from the vacation this past summer, a warm embrace under the mistletoe, or a favorite pet playing in the snow. It can be used on First-Class Mail, Priority Mail and Express Mail.
For customers finding themselves at a local post office, select locations throughout Northern Illinois are selling greeting cards. They include:
- Antioch Main Post Office
- Arlington Heights Post Office
- Belvidere Post Office
- Buffalo Grove Post Office
- Carol Stream Main Post Office
- Crystal Lake Post Office
- Deerfield Main Post Office
- Des Plaines Post Office
- De Kalb Post Office
- Elk Grove Village Branch
- Glen Ellyn Post Office
- Glenview Main Post Office
- Grayslake Main Post Office
- Gurnee Main Post Office
- Highland Park Main Post Office
- Hoffman Estates Branch
- Itasca Main Post Office
- Lake Zurich Main Post Office
- Libertyville Main Post Office
- Loves Park Branch
- Morton Grove Post Office
- Mundelein Main Post Office
- Old Orchard Station
- Palatine Main Post Office
- Park Ridge Main Post Office
- Prospect Heights Main Post Office
- Rockford Main Post Office
- St. Charles Main Post Office
- St. Charles East Side
- Schaumburg Post Office
- Skokie Main Post Office
- Streamwood
- Vernon Hills Branch
- Villa Park Main Post Office
- Wheaton Main Post Office
- Wheaton South Branch
- Wheeling Main Post Office
- Wilmette Main Post Office
- Woodfield Station
In addition to holiday greetings, the selection includes cards celebrating birthdays, new babies and wedding anniversaries, as well as those offering encouragement and sympathy.
Select Post Offices are also offering Evergreens note cards featuring artwork from the 44-cent Evergreens Forever stamps, depicting the foliage and cones of four different conifers: ponderosa pine, eastern red cedar, blue spruce and balsam fir. The set of eight blank cards and envelopes comes with eight Evergreens Forever stamps.
The Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses, and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations. Visit the Postal Service’s interactive holiday press room at usps.com/holidaynewsroom. For holiday mailing reminders and shipping tips, follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/holidayshipping.
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Please Note: For broadcast quality video and audio, photo stills and other media resources, visit the USPS Newsroom at www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/welcome.htm.
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.
