PITTSBURGH — The United States Postal Service invites small businesses to attend a “Grow Your Business Day” workshop that will help entrepreneurs and proprietors to promote their businesses using direct mail, without the cost of mailing lists or permits.
The new Every Door Direct (EDD) service is the first in a series of U.S. Postal Service initiatives to make growing your business with the mail more efficient and affordable.
In this one-hour presentation Postal experts will show how easy it is to select a campaign message, target an audience and prepare EDD mailings. Information will be provided on how to do it yourself or using mailing house vendors. Attendees will also learn about the Postal Service’s new Direct Mail Hub, a website that has simple, cost-effective ways to tap into the marketing advantages of Direct Mail.
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about direct mail and how it can help you to “Grow Your Business.”
An EDD workshop will be held at the following locations during the listed times and dates:
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March 21, 2012 |
March 22, 2012 Penn Hills Post Office Wheeling WV Post Office |
March 23, 2012
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March 28, 2012 Uniontown Post Office |
March 30, 2012 New Castle Post Office
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Seating is limited so those interested in attending are encouraged to register at usps.com/growyourbusinessdays.
The ‘Grow Your Business Days’ workshops are free and open to the public. For more information, call the Western PA District’s Business Development Specialist and event coordinator, Michelle Dugas at 412.359.7575
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A list of processing facilities studied, FAQs, mail processing b-roll, and additional information can be found at usps.com/ourfuturenetwork.
A self-supporting government enterprise, the U.S. Postal Service is the only delivery service that reaches every address in the nation, 151 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 nearly 32,000 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 35th in the 2011 Fortune 500. In 2011, the U.S. Postal Service was ranked number one in overall service performance, out of the top 20 wealthiest nations in the world, Oxford Strategic Consulting. Black Enterprise and Hispanic Business magazines ranked the Postal Service as a leader in workforce diversity. The Postal Service has been named the Most Trusted Government Agency for six years and the sixth Most Trusted Business in the nation by the Ponemon Institute.
