September 13, 2010<\/p>\n
CRITICAL MASS – USPS CONTINUES CARRIER PICKUP EXPANSION<\/strong><\/p>\n With the addition of 471 new ZIP codes \u2014 a 2-year project that ended this month \u2014 the free Carrier Pickup service offered by USPS is now available at 99.97 percent of all mail delivery addresses in the nation.<\/p>\n First introduced in 2004, Carrier Pickup today is available at more than 130 million mail delivery addresses within 36,645 ZIP codes. Priority Mail, Express Mail, Parcel Return Service, Express Mail International and Priority Mail International are some of the products eligible for the free service, which customers can request online.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve reached a point of critical mass with this latest expansion to our package pickup network,\u201d says Gary Reblin, vice president, Shipping Services. \u201cCarrier Pickup is a popular option among busy consumers, e-commerce merchants, and businesses of all sizes, and I expect to see continued strong growth.\u201d<\/p>\n According to Dean Granholm, vice president, Delivery Operations, postal employees as well as customers like the service. \u201cOur delivery people have established Carrier Pickup as one of the most convenient ways to ship packages,\u201d he says. \u201cThey\u2019re proud to provide this service for customers.\u201d<\/p>\n The latest additions to the Carrier Pickup service network include addresses in communities such as Welcome, MD; Happy, TX; Friendship, MD; and Surprise, AZ. To promote the service, postal customers with addresses in the new ZIP codes will receive \u201cFree Package Pickup\u201d postcards the week of Sept. 20.<\/p>\n In addition to Carrier Pickup, USPS offers four other options for package pickup to meet the needs of customers \u2014 Pickup on Demand, Scheduled Pickup On Demand Service, No Fee Pickup Service and Collection Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" September 13, 2010 CRITICAL MASS – USPS CONTINUES CARRIER PICKUP EXPANSION With the addition of 471 new ZIP codes \u2014 a 2-year project that ended this month \u2014 the free Carrier Pickup service offered by USPS is now available at 99.97 percent of all mail delivery addresses in the nation. First introduced in 2004, Carrier […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1361,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions\/1361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}