NEW YORK, NY – In the interest of safety and security, postal officials will seal blue mail collection boxes at select Manhattan locations during President Barak Obama’s visit to New York City. Collection boxes will be temporarily closed from January 18 – January 20, 2012. They will be reopened on Saturday, January 21, 2012.

TEMPORARILY SEALED COLLECTION CAN LOCATIONS

Extensive postal information is always available 24/7 online at usps.com.

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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.