Holiday shipping: Spend more on the gift and less on the postage
This holiday mailing season make sure you get the best shipping value by learning how to take advantage of postage discounts, FREE boxes and FREE services from the U.S. Postal Service. Four presentations at local libraries have been planned to help mailers choose the FREE boxes, products and services that will save them money and time.
We have usps.com online mailing discounts that are not available at your local retail post office, let us explain how easy these are to use!
Plan to attend one of these informational sessions to get all of your holiday shipping questions answered, learn how to save on postage (up to 15 percent), and time during the hectic holiday season. Learn the locations of fourteen local contracted postal units for holiday shipping and how to prepare your packages for shipping to insure safe and fast delivery.
Learn about the Bill Me Later service that is available for holiday shipping.
Deadlines for holiday shipping to destinations outside the U.S. are fast approaching. Learn about international postage options, postage discounts using a specially designed (and FREE) box for APO/FPO military addresses (save $2.00 per box) and simplified customs forms.
There is no charge for these programs and no reservation is required:
– Tuesday November 15, 2011
Lakes Regional Library
15290 Bass Rd.
10 a.m. – seminar will last approx. 1 hour
– Wednesday November 16, 2011
North Fort Myers Library
2001 N Tamiami Trl.
1 p.m. – seminar will last approx. 1 hour
– Thursday November 17, 2011
Naples Headquarters Regional Library
2385 Orange Blossom Dr.
1 p.m. – seminar will last approx. 1 hour
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 tax dollars for operating expenses, and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations. With 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 $67 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 29th in the 2010 Fortune 500. 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 six consecutive years and the sixth Most Trusted Business in the nation by the Ponemon Institute.