VILLA PARK, IL — Looking for ways to grow your business without spending a lot of money on advertising and promotion?  Or do you need to cut the cost of shipping orders to customers?  Well, the Postal Service can help. 

The Villa Park Post Office is hosting an open house to help small and mid-size business owners understand how easy it is to use the mail to reach new and existing customers, even during a down economy.

Postmaster Mike Young and his staff will be in the lobby demonstrating how small and mid-sized businesses can use direct mail, ship packages from the convenience of a home or office, and qualify for shipping discounts, by using usps.com.

The open house is scheduled for Friday, March 25, 2011, from 10 am to 4 pm at the Villa Park, IL Post Office, 1415 South Ardmore Ave, Villa Park, IL. 

“Now more than ever before, the Postal Service is quick, easy and convenient to use,” says Postmaster Mike Young. “Whether you’re shipping packages using our Priority Mail Flat Rate boxes or using our website to target customers with direct mail, we’re making it easier and cheaper for local businesses to mail and ship with the Postal Service.”

For more information call 630-834-1392.

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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, 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.