NEW YORK CITY — Tuesday, November 11 is Veterans Day, and while government offices and federal agencies – including Post Offices – observe the holiday, the USPS offers extended access to postal services and products.
As a customer service oriented business, the Postal Service knows that today’s modern day businesses and customers have extended work hours. Their business day may start before 8 A.M. and end long after 5 P.M - including Holidays.
With the Postal Service’s secure website, www.usps.com, customers can choose from a suite of quick, easy, and convenient online services at their fingertips - when and where customers may choose.
Every day, almost 800,000 people visit the Postal Service's award-winning website, usps.com. They've learned that just about anything obtained from the regular brick and mortar Post Office can be achieved using a home or office computer.
Experience usps.com's full array of quick, easy, and convenient services. With www.usps.com, almost anything you can do at a brick and mortar Post Office can be achieved online – at the post office that’s always open. That is a primary benefit of usps.com – It offers customers round-the-clock access to postal products, services, and information, right from a home or office computer, tablet or Smartphone – or another modern day electronic communications device.
And that's not all. With usps.com, customers can find information, conduct transactions, and use postal services of all kinds. With usps.com's Click-N-Ship service, customers can calculate rates, pay for postage and create shipping. And with just a few more clicks, they can request that their letter carrier pick up their prepaid packages with the next day's mail delivery - at no extra charge.
Customers can find ZIP Codes - and locate a Post Office or alternate location offering postal products and services. They can change their addresses, arrange to have their mail held, and request redelivery. And they can learn how Direct Mail can help grow their business. Whether it is finding addresses or information, calculating rates or buying stamps – all this and much more are at www.usps.com – the Post Office that never closes.
Usps.com is secure and reliable and it's available whenever customers need. That's why more than 21 million customers visit the trusted, world class website, www.usps.com , each month for postal services… even on Holidays like Veteran’s Day!
Customers who want to visit a location that offers USPS products and services is made easier too. The Postal Service has partnered with retail businesses to bring you easy access to postal products and services where you shop, work and live. Locate an official postal partnering Shipping Center or 24-hour Self Service Kiosk or get directions to the nearest stamp retailer at one of thousands of outlets such as supermarkets, drug and convenience stores, and automated teller machines. Find an alternate location fast at www.usps.com/locator.
It's all about access and convenience – and the Postal Service is making it easier than ever for customers to take care of their shipping and mailing needs.
Today’s modern lifestyles can now expect more, as usps.com brings the Post Office to more than 92 million computers.
Go to www.usps.com for extensive information, products and service that’s available 24/7.
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