*** US Post Office Fun Facts *** -This Post Office is Always Open — usps and USPS Mobile. -The Postal Service website — usps — is an online Post Office at your fingertips, and it is open for business 24/7. The Postal Service’s smart phone apps provide additional access to the most popular functions on usps. -usps is one of the most frequently visited government sites with 423 million visits in 2012 — averaging more than 1 million visitors each day. -In 2012, stamp and retail sales at the Postal Store, the official online Post Office, totaled more than $246 million. -Postal Service began offering usps in Spanish and Simplified Chinese in 2012. -Click-N-Ship allows customers to print shipping labels with postage for Priority Mail, Express Mail, Global Express Guaranteed, Priority Mail International and Express Mail International. -Internet Change-of-Address allows customers to change addresses, sign up for various services and order moving supplies online. More than 13.2 million address changes were submitted online in 2012. -Going away for a while? Take your mailbox with you. Premium Forwarding Service forwards the mail from your permanent address to a temporary address once a week. -In 2012, Hold Mail Service allowed more than 10 million customers to have their mail held safely at local Post Offices while they were away from home. Scheduling can be done online. -Redelivery Service allows customers to schedule the delivery of the package they missed. -In order of popularity, the top usps sites in 2012: Track & Confirm ZIP Code Lookup Calculate Postage Change of Address Click-N-Ship -There’s a Post Office on your phone. Some of the most popular functions currently available on usps —Tracking, Post Office Locator, ZIP Code Lookup, Calculate Postage, Request for Package Pickup, Ordering Package Supplies — are now available on most smart phones. -The Postal Service app — USPS Mobile — is available on Apple, Android and BlackBerry platforms. -In 2012, a new mobile application was launched for iPhone — customers using the device’s camera can scan barcodes on shipping labels to track their packages and other mail. The scanner function is available on iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPad 2. -Since launching in October 2009, the Postal Service iPhone application has been repeatedly ranked in the top 15 free business applications. -The Postal Service app has been downloaded more than 2.7 million times across all platforms. -In 2012, there were more than 23 million visitors to the mobile site — m.usps — averaging 72,000 visitors per day.
Posted on: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 22:01:39 +0000
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