What are the benefits of using post office boxes?
Get your mail when and where you want it. Postal customers value the security, privacy, and flexibility of a Post Office Box for many reasons:
It’s easy to find.
It’s private.
It’s affordable.
It’s permanent.
It’s convenient.
Your home or office address may change, but your PO Box address stays the same. You can choose a location close to work or home-whatever fits your needs. Most Post Offices have extended business hours and/or 24-hour lobby access.
Each Post Office has a variety of box sizes to choose from-depending on the anticipated volume of mail you will be receiving. You don’t have to visit your local Post Office to rent a box, you can search online at usps.com/poboxes by address or ZIP code for an available PO Box. It shows available sizes and fees for a location near you. You can make one-time payments for your box rental with a credit card or sign up for automatic payment.
If you won’t be able to get to the Post Office for an extended period of time, you can make arrangements for your mail to be held. Two box keys are issued free to the boxholder; additional keys are available at a nominal fee.
For more information about purchasing stamps, stamps by mail, postal regulations, a free subscription to USA Philatelic magazine, Post Office events, the location of the nearest postal store or contract unit, or for answers to your specific Postal Service questions, contact USPS at 1-800-275-8777, or visit www.usps.com. To schedule a presentation for your community, club or group on how the Postal Service brings the Post Office to your home or office computer, call 239-573-9638.
Mr. Zip’s Tip: The Postal Service moves mail using planes, trains, trucks, cars, boats, ferries, helicopters, subways, flat planes, hovercrafts, T-3s, street cars, mules, bicycles and human feet.
An independent federal agency, the U.S. Postal Service is the only delivery service that visits every address in the nation 146 million homes and businesses. It has 37,000 retail locations and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to pay for operating expenses, not tax dollars. The Postal Service has annual revenues of $75 billion and delivers nearly half the world’s mail.