CARRBORO — The Carrboro Post Office, 1500 W. Main Street, will highlight its first Customer Appreciation Day by dedicating the new Barbara Jordan commemorative stamp in its lobby. The event on Friday, March 16, 2012, from 10 am to 1 pm, and the stamp dedication will commence at 11:30 am. The event is free and open to the public.

For Customer Appreciation Day, Postmaster Teresa Long welcomes residents with a hourly drawings for special edition artwork; comprehensive information on Every Door Direct Mail, a new program that helps small and medium-sized businesses grow by using inexpensive direct mail; and a surplus of new Express Mail Flat Rate boxes and products. 

Barbara Jordan, one of America’s most respected and influential politicians during her many years in Congress in the late 20th century, is one of the most recent subjects in the Postal Service’s popular Black Heritage Stamp series. Jordan was the first African-American woman elected to the Texas legislature. She also was the first African-American elected to the Texas State Senate since 1883, and the first African-American woman elected from the South to the U.S. Congress, where she served three terms, sponsoring and supporting numerous pieces of legislation extending federal protection of civil rights.

“We don’t exist without our customers,” said Long. “They have shown us for many years how important we are to them, so we want to show them how important they are to us.”

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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 nearly 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.