INDIANAPOLIS, IN — It’s easy to change your address and the U.S. Postal Service offers three simple ways for customers to submit change of address orders:

• Call 800-ASK-USPS to change an address using the Postal Service’s Call Center
• Visit usps.com to make address changes online ($1 charge to your credit or debit card)
• Use the Mover’s Guide, available at all Post Offices upon request at the retail counter.

Several non-postal websites offer change of address services. Some claim to offer change of address service with the Postal Service and some sites offer the service at no charge. Others charge customers fees ranging from $6.99 to $30. Some of the sites look very similar to the Postal Service site. According to Kim Yates, Communications Programs Specialist with the U.S. Postal Service, the Postal Service has no affiliation with the businesses that manage these websites. Yates also stated that customers who have been charged more than $1 for identity verification to change their address have submitted their applications and made payments to these websites, not the Postal Service.

To change your address online, simply visit usps.com. Scroll down toward the bottom left under “Would you like to…?”, click “Change your address” and follow the instructions.

If conducting an online search for the U.S. Postal Service site to change your address, be aware it may not be the first site in the list of search results.

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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.