NEW YORK CITY – Your Post Office is Offering Customers One Less Line – And Precious Time – This Holiday Season!!

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has expanded services into new directions by offering America’s new tech savvy customers round-the-clock expanded access to postal products, services, and information anywhere from a computer, tablet or smartphone.

With additional enhancements to the USPS Mobile App and your web-enabled device you can do more with the latest technology and get instant access to the most popular tools on USPS.com® from your mobile device.  Easy and convenient, you’ll enjoy having A Post Office in Your Hand™!!

• New! Order stamps.  Or use the GPS-based location service to find expanded retail locations that have partnered with the USPS – such as drug and convenient stores, grocery stores and shipping centers like Contact Postal Units or Approved Shippers.  You can also find nearby Package Pickup Service Locations – including ‘gopost’ Free Parcel Lockers – Self Service Kiosks and Collection Boxes
• Look up ZIP Codes™ 
• Calculate prices
• Order supplies or free shipping boxes, envelopes and labels
• New! Pay for postage and create shipping labels.  And with just a few more clicks from your mobile device, you can request that a letter carrier pick up your prepaid packages with the next day’s mail delivery – at no extra charge
• Track the status of your packages anywhere you go
• Schedule package pickups or redelivery to your address or to a gopost (gopost are located in select New York City delivery ZIP Codes)
• Get started right now at: Go to m.usps.com now ›  (Quick and easy registration at the website is necessary)

 
Whether it’s finding addresses or information, calculating rates, buying stamps or shipping packages – all this and much more are available on your mobile device from the tools on www.usps.com.

Usps.com is secure and reliable and it's available whenever.  That's why more than 90 million customers visit the trusted, world class website, www.usps.com , each month for postal services… even on Holidays.

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.

New Yorkers can now expect more, as the USPS brings the tools of usps.com to your fingertips on computers, tablets and smartphones.  For 24/7 access to postal products and service visit www.usps.com, download the USPS app or from your mobile web enabled device visit: Go to m.usps.com now › .  

Customers may also find expanded retail locations offering USPS products and service at www.usps.com/locator.

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Join the Many and Interesting Facts
Every day, 3 million people visit the Postal Service's award-winning website, usps.com – the post office that’s always open for business. They've learned that just about anything obtained from the regular brick and mortar Post Office can be achieved from a home, business or college computer. 

Currently, more than 2 million visitors have downloaded the Postal Service app across all platforms.

• There are 40 million visitors to the mobile site, which averaged 100,000 visits per day in 2013.
• Americans purchase approximately 6.5 billion greeting cards each year. 
• There were 20.1 billion stamps sold in 2013.  When you need stamps know that the Postal Service has partnered with retail businesses to bring you easy access to postal products and services where you shop, work, live and go to school. Use your GPS USPS Location App for the nearest stamp retailer at one of thousands of outlets or find an alternate retail location fast at www.usps.com/locator.
• Sixty-three percent of Americans plan to shop online earlier for gifts this holiday season largely intending to do so to make sure they receive their packages on time. Shipping packages online has never been easier with USPS online shipping.
• The most popular seasonal cards are Christmas cards, with approx 1.6 billion units – that’s a lot of stamps and you can purchase them from your smartphone or at expanded access retail locations.

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Please Note: For broadcast quality video and audio, photo stills and other media resources, visit the USPS Newsroom at about.usps.com/news/welcome.htm. A complete list of the holiday shipping deadlines can be found at usps.com/holidaynews.

For reporters interested in speaking with a regional Postal Service public relations professional, please go to about.usps.com/news/media-contacts/usps-local-media-contacts.pdf.  Follow us on Twitter (twitter.com/usps), Instagram (instagram.com/uspostalservice), Pinterest (pinterest.com/uspsstamps), LinkedIn (linkedin.com/company/usps), subscribe to our channel on YouTube (youtube.com/usps), like us on Facebook (facebook.com/usps) and view our Postal Postsblog (uspsblog.com).

For more information about the Postal Service, visit usps.com and usps.com/postalfacts.