LAREDO, TX — To increase convenience and access to postal services, a new Contract Postal Unit (CPU) has opened in the 78043 ZIP Code area of Laredo, inside the Laredo Country Store, 3911 Jaime Zapata Memorial Highway Suite 1. A grand opening will be held beginning at 12 noon, on Monday, March 5.
A full line of postal products and services are available at the new CPU, including postage stamps, Express Mail® service, Priority Mail® service, special postal services, packaging products, and much more. The hours of operation provide convenient access from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday thru Saturday.
“The contract postal unit also has a nice, new look.” says Postmaster Armando Villalon. “The Postal Service has re-engineered the entire Contract Postal Unit Program to better answer the needs of postal customers nationwide.”
For more information regarding Contract Postal Units, please call Florence Lobo, U.S. Postal Service Rio Grande District CPU Coordinator, 210-368-1225.
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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.
