What:

The Postal Service is having a ribbon cutting ceremony to launch a new service provided at the Brownsville Post Office. Gopost package service is a convenient and easy way to receive and ship packages.

GoPost parcel units are located at six sites in Brooklyn providing customers with a free secondary mailing address to receive packages – 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

The six sites are also hosting simultaneous Customer Appreciation Day celebrations to thank Brooklyn customers for their business. Plus, each location is providing demonstrations and information highlighting the six benefits that make it possible for customers to never miss a package delivery again.

Who:

Eric Adams, Borough President for Brooklyn
Rick Uluski, Vice President Area Operations, USPS Northeast Area
Elvin Mercado, District Manager, USPS Triboro District
New York City Political Leaders
Brooklyn Community Leaders
Industry and Postal Customer Council Members
Gopost Customers
New York District Postal Officials
General Public

When:

Friday, November 6, 2015
11:00 AM

Where:

Ribbon Cutting Ceremony at 11:00am

Brownsville Post Office>
167 Bristol St
Brooklyn, NY 11212

Simultaneous Customer Appreciation Event locations:

Williamsburg
263 South 4th St
Brooklyn, NY 11211

Cadman Plaza
271 Cadman Plaza E.
Brooklyn, NY 11201

Coney Island
2727 Mermaid Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11224

Canarsie
10201 Flatlands Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11236

Blythebourne
1200 51st St
Brooklyn, NY 11219

MEDIA

Media is invited to attend the event, take photos and interview speakers and agreeable audience members. Please contact Connie Chirichello at 631-524-9735 for additional assistance.

Background:

The USPS recently expanded its package delivery locations – where customers may choose to receive packages – instead of at home, business or post office box. The service is free and provides a secondary mailing address for customers to use for package delivery.

Gopost is the right fit for never missing a package delivery again.

Plus, with the holidays just ahead keeping gifts a surprise at home has never been easier.

When you sign up – you have the ability to use any gopost location as your free mailing address for receiving package delivery.

Now those special gifts and packages – the ones you want to keep as surprises – can be delivered separately from regular mail using a free gopost address.

The Postal Service is committed to improving the way we serve our customers,” said Elvin Mercado, District Manager for the Triboro District which encompasses the boroughs of Brooklyn, Flushing and Staten Island. “We want to give them more convenience, more flexibility and more options. That’s what gopost is all about.”

Customer Appreciation Day Events

Simultaneous Customer Appreciation Day events are taking place in Brooklyn at six GoPost locations on Friday, Nov 6.

The six high-tech, high-security units, known as GoPost, expand the ease of access to package delivery services by the Postal Service in Brooklyn and incorporate mobile messages to the receivers when packages arrive at the unit.

GoPost offers local users six solutions for convenient package service, including

1. Customers can use the location of a GoPost unit as the mailing address for receiving packages
2. An Email or text notification alerts customers when their package has arrived at GoPost
3. Residents in some ZIP Code delivery areas who receive a ‘MISSED DELIVERY NOTICE’ can redirect package delivery from their physical address to gopost. Eligible addresses receive instructions with a special delivery notice in their mailbox
4. Find other gopost locations along your route of travel by using the GoPost and usps.com online sites
5. Packages are placed in secure, weather-protected lockers that best accommodate the size of each package.
6. GoPost service also provides customers the option of dropping off prepaid packages. With 24 hour access for package services, waiting on line at the post office for package service is a thing of the past.

There is no fee for GoPost services and no upcharge for package pickup at GoPosts.
Five of the six Brooklyn sites, offer 24-hour access for receiving and shipping packages using the self-service kiosk and parcel lockers.

How does a GoPost unit work?

• Sign up by answering a few questions at www.gopost.com.
• A registration card with your user ID and PIN number is immediately sent by mail to your physical address. Validate receiving your ID card.
• Now you can use any GoPost location as your mailing address for package delivery. Be sure to provide your mailer of a package with the GoPost address of choice.
• You can change which GoPost address you want to use for any package delivery
• When your package arrives to GoPost a text or email notification is sent to you.
• At the Gopost unit sign in at the GoPost kiosk screen using your ID and PIN number. The parcel locker opens and your package is waiting for you.

Logging in with the secure, validated personal ID and PIN Number, packages bearing prepaid postage may be placed with a GoPost unit. Prepaid package labels are scanned and packages deposited in an empty locker which securely locks when closed. The Postal Service takes the package at the next visit to the GoPost.

GoPost units are also available in Washington DC and at New York’s Grand Central Station postal finance station at 450 Lexington Avenue, NY, NY 10017.

The Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.