USPS tests machines, mailboxes for future mail delivery

The busiest day of the year is Monday, Dec.14.

USPS will also deliver on Christmas Day.

USPS says they have added some 30,000 employees to its workforce of more than 600,000 to deliver this holiday season.

Last year, the agency released a virtual reality app for the holiday season, and the post office’s former vice president of information technology John Edgar told FedScoop his agency wanted to emphasize cloud computing and strategies for making their systems more mobile friendly.

Skip the lines and ship online at usps.com or use Self-Service Kiosks.

If postal customers in the area have experienced issues with their mail service, the Postal Service wants to hear from those customers directly and as quickly as possible so that we address those concerns immediately. It allows customers to order free Priority Mail boxes, print shipping labels, purchase postage and even request free next-day Package Pickup when the letter carrier delivers your mail.

You bought, you wrapped, now you must mail.

For last-minute mailers, Priority Express mail needs to be sent by Wednesday, Dec. 23.

The U.S. Postal Service is expanding an experimental service that photographs your mail and emails you the images each morning. That’s because the USPS is actively testing a service it calls Informed Delivery – a daily e-mail that contains pictures of the mail destined for your physical mail box that day. When they are received they are separated and sent to a special office within the Postal Service that responds to each letter. Religious-themed Forever holiday stamps available this year include Hanukkah, Holy Family, Kwanzaa, Madonna of the Candelabra by Raphael and Virgin and Child by Jan Gosseart. The Postal Service does not receive tax dollars for operating expenses; it relies entirely on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.