Create customized New Year’s greeting cards and produce personalized postage
Were you too busy to send Christmas cards? It’s not too late to send a message to your family, friends and co-workers! Want to add a personal touch to postage on your greeting cards and letters to dazzle family and friends? It’s quick and easy at usps.com, where customers can turn their digital photos into customized greeting cards and personalized postage stamps with a simple click of the mouse.
The Postal Service’s website brings the card store directly to you. With a computer, an Internet connection and a digital photo, anyone can design perfect cards and postage stamps.
At CardStore, customers can create greeting cards using personal photos or choose from more than 50 card designs, including traditional, religious, multicultural and nondenominational images. Ordering online takes only minutes and the cards are printed and shipped the next business day-either to the customer or directly to recipients, whichever the sender chooses. Prices start at just $0.79 per card.
Other online options for personalized greetings include Click2Mail and Premium Postcards. Click2Mail makes sending end-of-year holiday letters easy. Customers can select First-Class Mail or Standard Mail rates. Premium Postcards can be created in black and white or full color to announce new holiday products or discounts, to send a personal greeting, say Happy New Year, or to thank customers for their support throughout the year.
Adding the personal touch doesn’t have to stop with the card. The outside of the envelope can be personalized as well.
Customized postage allows customers to create postage using digital photos or images-a family vacation photo, a warm holiday scene, or a favorite pet playing in the snow. It can be used on First-Class Mail, Priority Mail and Express Mail.
Customers in 1,600 locations across the country can purchase greeting cards at a local Post Office. In addition to holiday greetings, the selection includes cards celebrating birthdays, new babies and wedding anniversaries, as well as those offering encouragement and sympathy.
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 573-9638.
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A self-supporting government enterprise, the U.S. Postal Service is the only delivery service that reaches every address in the nation, 150 million residences, businesses and Post Office Boxes. The Postal Service receives no direct support from taxpayers. With 36,000 retail locations and the most frequently visited website in the federal government, the Postal Service relies on the sale of postage, products and services to pay for operating expenses. Named the Most Trusted Government Agency five consecutive years and the sixth Most Trusted Business in the nation by the Ponemon Institute, the Postal Service has annual revenue of more than $68 billion and delivers nearly half the world’s mail. If it were a private sector company, the U.S. Postal Service would rank 28th in the 2009 Fortune 500.