JACKSON MS — The Mississippi District of the Postal Service has announced that operations at the Gulfport Processing & Distribution Facility returned to normal today, following a temporary suspension that began August 28, caused by the impact of Hurricane Isaac.
Customers may deposit outgoing mail at the Gulfport Processing & Distribution Facility, 10285 Corporate Drive, Gulfport MS 39503 in the blue mail collection boxes located there. It is anticipated that additional blue mail collection boxes will be available for customer use tomorrow, Friday, August 31.
Postal employees are asked to call the National Employee Emergency Hotline at 1-888-363-7462 for updated information regarding work schedules and reporting times.
Postal Service employees who must evacuate their home, city or state are asked to call the USPS Employee Notification Hotline at 1-866-666-5349 to report their new location.
The Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.
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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, 151 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 $65 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 35th in the 2011 Fortune 500. In 2011, the U.S. Postal Service was ranked number one in overall service performance, out of the top 20 wealthiest nations in the world, Oxford Strategic Consulting. 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 for six years and the sixth Most Trusted Business in the nation by the Ponemon Institute.
