Raleigh, NC — To increase convenience and access to postal services, a new Contract Post Office with virtually all postal services is now open in Raleigh. The Lighthouse Contract Postal Unit (CPU), located at the Lighthouse Food Mart Convenience Store, 1298 Buck Jones Road, Raleigh will be open seven days a week – Monday – Friday, 6 am – 10 pm, Saturdays 8 am – 10 pm and Sundays 8 am – 8 pm. It is one of 22 CPUs in the Triangle Area, all serving as convenient alternatives to traditional Post Offices.

“This office will help to increase convenience and access to postal services for customers unable to travel to the main Post Office,” said Cheryl Picard, Acting Postmaster, Raleigh, who will oversee the Lighthouse CPU. “A full line of postal products and services are available at the new CPU including postage stamps, Express Mail® service, Priority Mail® service, special services, packaging products, and much more. We are very excited for the residents of Raleigh and the Triangle-area community at large.”

The Postal Service has re-engineered the entire Contract Unit Postal program to better answer the needs of postal customers nationwide. “The Postal Service is continuously tasked with finding smarter and more efficient ways to reach our customers,” said Picard. “Our CPUs, our Automated Postal Centers (APC), our online services at www.usps.com, and our face value stamps at major retailers (Food Lion, Harris Teeter, CVS, etc) throughout the city and state are allowing us to change the way we do business, to make us available to more people 24 hours a day.”

The CPU can be reached at 919-380-3373. A list of other CPUs throughout the Triangle area is listed below.

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