NEW YORK CITY (5 BOROUGHS) AND LONG ISLAND – The U.S. Postal Service is ringing in the new year knowing that your time and money are valuable — and that it can help with cost-saving products and services like free package tracking and the first-ever Forever stamp for international mailing.

Beginning Jan. 27, 2013, free USPS Tracking (formerly Delivery Confirmation) will be offered when shipping packages with Express Mail, Priority Mail or Standard Post (Formerly known as Parcel Post). 

• This new service enhancement provides customers with the ability to know when their package has arrived — at no additional cost. 
• That’s a savings of 75 cents per item at retail counters.
• No more fiddling around with an extra Delivery Confirmation label — the postal tracking number is readily accessible on the mailing receipt.

Joining the new year’s lineup, the Postal Service is launching Global Forever stamps. The value of the Global Forever stamps will equal the current 1-ounce mailpiece price for overseas destinations no matter what the rate increase — forever.  Customers can be confident that shipping with the Postal Service will provide reliable, trusted and secure delivery anywhere in the world.

The Postal Service wants to make your mailing experience exceptionally easy.  In addition, Flat Rate Express Mail and Priority Mail envelopes and boxes are available at no cost at local Post Offices, or can be ordered online at shop.usps.com.  Postage, labels and customs forms can be printed online anytime using Click-N-Ship.  For customers shipping Standard Post, the Postal Service offers ReadyPost boxes in a variety of sizes.

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, Oxford Strategic Consulting ranked the U.S. Postal Service number one in overall service performance of the posts in the top 20 wealthiest nations in the world. 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.

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