NEW YORK CITY – Only Priority Express Mail will be delivered and Post Offices will be closed across the country on Monday, January 20, 2014, in observance of the Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday. Normal mail delivery, collections, and retail / customer service operations will resume on Tuesday, January 21.
Customers requiring postal retail services on Martin Luther King Jr. Day can take advantage of the 24/7access to state-of-the-art Self Service Ship & Mail Centers (SSK) in post office lobbies throughout NYC. These USPS self-service kiosks offer customers who are using a credit or debit card the state-of-the-art technology to perform postal business, such as purchase stamps, weigh and calculate postage, ship packages and mail letters, look up ZIP Codes and access other mailing information.
Customers may obtain a list of SSK locations throughout New York City by visiting the USPS website at: https://tools.usps.com/go/POLocatorAction.action#paginationTop and in the “Find Locations” drop box select “Self Service Kiosk” in the “city and state” of NYC, NY.
Extensive postal information and services are also available 24/7 online at USPS.com.
The USPS receives no tax dollars for its operations or facilities, and covers these costs solely through the revenue received from the sale of its products and services.
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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: 152 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 more than 31,000 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 42nd in the 2012 Fortune 500. The Postal Service has been named the Most Trusted Government Agency for seven years and the fourth Most Trusted Business in the nation by the Ponemon Institute.
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