One Million Downloads!

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One Million Downloads!

Milestone for U.S. Postal Service App

WASHINGTON, June 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --Look up a ZIP Code. Locate nearby postal locations. Find shipping prices. Track packages. Get delivery information. The Postal Service is proud to announce that more than one million iPhone, iPod touch and iPad customers have downloaded the U.S. Postal Service app.

"We're expanding access to our products and services," said Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe. "We know simpler is better -- a million mobile customers can't be wrong."

Since the application was launched in December 2009, it has consistently been one of the top 10 free business apps in the App Store.(  )

The app gives customers instant, on-the-go access to the most popular tools on usps.com and it offers browser-friendly access, too. The USPS App is available for free from the App Store on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad or at http://www.itunes.com/appstore. For more information, go to usps.com/mobile/info.htm.

The Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses, and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.

We're everywhere so you can be anywhere: uspseverywhere.com

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.

SOURCE  U.S. Postal Service

U.S. Postal Service

CONTACT: Sue Brennan, sue.brennan@usps.gov, +1-202-268-6363, usps.com/news

Web Site: http://www.uspseverywhere.com/

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