USPS reminds customers of pick-up service
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The United States Postal Service is reminding people that they can skip a trip to the post office, and ship holiday packages via the Internet.
Pete Nowacki is with the U.S. Postal Service in Minneapolis. He said customers can order "Express Mail" and "Priority Mail" boxes and envelopes, for holiday packages online.
"Let's say you have a package that you're mailing to a relative in California. Just use your bathroom scale to get the weight. You can use one of our boxes, pack it up, print the label, and pay for the postage with a credit card and then just send us a little e-mail and we'll actually pick it up at your home or office the next day," Nowacki said.
The holiday deadline for mailing packages to most other countries is this Thursday, December 11.
The deadline for Iraq and Afghanistan was last week.
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