No Line to Send Cards Using Postal Service Online

No Line to Send Cards Using Postal Service Online

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Personalized holiday greeting cards are just a click away at the Postal Service's NetPost CardStore. NetPost offers the perfect solution to sending greeting cards to friends and family this holiday season. With easy access on http://www.usps.com/, NetPost CardStore lets customers personalize holiday greetings by designing cards online and sending them, one card at a time or all at once.

Customers can even enclose a gift card from a variety of popular retailers in their personalized card. While gift cards have become popular in recent years, and online greetings have been available for sometime, this innovation pairs the two, bringing the power of the internet to the tradition and impact of sending gifts cards and keepsakes through the mail. Creativity is virtually unlimited when designing a card for First-Class delivery with a print from a digital image and a gift card from the recipient's favorite retailer. Gift cards are now available from Barnes & Noble, Bed Bath & Beyond, Big Bowl Asian Kitchen, Carrs, Chili's, Circuit City, Corner Bakery, Dominick's, Genuardi's, Little Italy, Lowe's, Macaroni Grill, Maggiano's, On the Border, Pak 'n $ave Foods, Pavilions, Randalls, Safeway, Starbucks, Tom Thumb's, and Vons.

NetPost CardStore users may choose the suggested greeting or create their own. Customers can choose from more than 2,500 images and photos or upload personal photos or artwork. The Postal Service will then print, address and mail the cards. Those wishing to hand write a personal message inside their cards can request to have the cards mailed to them with fully addressed, stamped envelopes. Then let the Postal Service deliver First-Class holiday greetings to friends and family as it has done for more than two centuries.

Customers can also choose from a wide range of colorful and exciting holiday stamps. The Postal Service has stamps for this season's various holidays -- including Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa -- to adorn envelopes. Stamps can announce the sentiment of the greeting.

A First-Class postage stamp, for thirty-seven cents, will send your greeting anywhere in the United States and U.S. Military addresses. This year's stamps will also be good for next year's greeting cards -- Customers can rely on the same rate next year. The Postal Service has kept rates stable since 2002, and will keep those rates until 2006.

Using NetPost CardStore involves just a few steps:
* Log onto the Postal Service's website at http://www.usps.com/, open
around the clock for customer convenience. Then follow the step-by-step,
easy-to-follow directions.

* Register with NetPost Services and go to NetPost CardStore
(http://www.usps.com/cardstore).

* Then create a card by selecting one of thousands of professionally-
designed, 5x7-inch cards, or create a card by scanning in photography or
artwork. Personalize cards online by adding a special message.

* Just in time for the holidays, customers can now click and include gift
cards from a variety of retailers in their personalized greeting card.

* The Postal Service will print the cards, address the envelopes using the
customer's list, mail and deliver them!



Since 1775, the U.S. Postal Service has connected friends, families, neighbors and businesses by mail. It is an independent federal agency that visits 142 million homes and businesses every day and is the only service provider delivering to every address in the nation. The Postal Service receives no taxpayer dollars for routine operations, but derives its operating revenues solely from the sale of postage, products and services. With annual revenues of more than $69 billion, it is the world's leading provider of mailing and delivery services, offering some of the most affordable postage rates in the world. The U.S. Postal Service delivers more than 46 percent of the world's mail volume-some 206 billion letters, advertisements, periodicals and packages a year-and serves seven million customers each day at its 40,000 retail locations nationwide.


Source: U.S. Postal Service

CONTACT: U.S. Postal Service, Media relations, +1-202-268-2155

Web site: http://www.usps.com/


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