Grand Rapids — Gerstner Hardware, located at 6988 114th Ave, Glenn, MI 49416, makes history on November 16 as it becomes the latest Village Post Office (VPO), part of the Postal Service’s initiative to provide expanded access, during a ribbon cutting grand opening ceremony. The ceremony is scheduled to start at 4 p.m. The public is invited.
“This Village Post Office will provide the Glenn, Michigan community with convenient access to our most popular products and services,” said Nancy Rettinhouse, the Postal Services District Manager for Greater Michigan. Glenn will retain the ZIP Code 49416.
“Local residents are elated to see this happening in their community,” said store owners Robert and Vicki Amberg. “We are excited to be able to provide Postal services and products and be part of the Postal Service’s non-brick-and-mortar service network,” they said.
Village Post Offices are operated by local businesses and offer popular postal products and services such as stamps and flat-rate packaging. They are the response to the changing mailing needs of the American public as more and more customers demand easier, more convenient access to Postal products and services.
Post Office Operations Manager Greg Chanski will officiate, and remarks will be made by the township supervisor and the store owners.
With 32,000 postal retail offices and more than 70,000 third-party retailers — Approved Postal Providers — selling postage stamps and providing expanded access to other postal products and services, customers today have about 100,000 locations across the nation where they can do business with the Postal Service. The USPS website ― www.uspseverywhere.com ― lets customers enter their ZIP codes to find the locations in their neighborhood where postal products and services — including VPOs — are available.
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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. We’re everywhere so you can be anywhere: www.uspseverywhere.com. 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.
