Vestal — Looking for ways to grow your business in the New Year without spending a lot of money on advertising and promotion? Or do you need to cut the cost of shipping orders to customers? A lobby demonstration of the biggest post office in the world, www.usps.com, provides answers for postal customers in the Southern Tier this Friday.

The Vestal Post Office stages an open house to help small and mid-size businesses — home-based businesses and residents too —on Friday December 11 from 9 am to 2 pm at the Post Office on 117 Rano Boulevard.
Postmaster Tim Gwardyak will demonstrate key online services found at www.usps.com with tips for business shippers and casual holiday users of the mail.

The postmaster will be in the lobby to demonstrate:

• Click-N-Ship allows businesses to create shipping labels with postage from a home or work computer. As an added bonus, consumers receive discounts on postage by printing their own labels with Click-N-Ship postage.
• Priority Mail Regional Rate pricing is a low-cost shipping alternative for commercial and online customers who are currently using Priority Mail or Merchandise Return Service.

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