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- <text id=93AC0337>
- <title>
- Express Mail Next Day Service
- </title>
- <history>
- Compact ALMANAC--United States Statistics
- Products & Services
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Almanac</source>
- <hdr>
- EXPRESS MAIL
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Express Mail Service is available 7 days a week, 365 days a
- year (at no additional charge) for mailable items up to 70
- pounds in weight and 108 inches in combined length and girth.
- Call 1-800-333-9777 for convenient pick-up service -- one
- low fee of $4.50 no matter how many pieces.
- </p>
- <p> Letter rate of $9.95 (up to 8 ounces) and $13.95 (up to 2
- pounds) for all types of Express Mail services -- Post Office
- to Addressee, Post Office to Post Office, Same Day Airport
- Service or Custom Designed Service. Consult your Postmaster for
- rates exceeding 2 pounds and up to the 70 pound limit.
- </p>
- <p> Convenient FLAT Rate for PO to Addressee or PO to PO services.
- No need to stand in line at the Post Officce to have your item
- weighed. No matter what it weighs, it all goes for the same low
- 2 lb. rate. Just use the Express Mail Flat Rate envelope, pay
- the appropriate two pound postage rate for the level of service
- desired (use stamps, meter strips or your Express Mail
- Corporate Account); put your documents into the flat rate
- envelope and drop in any collection box or hand to your letter
- carrier.
- </p>
- <p> Service features include: Noon delivery between major business
- markets; merchandise and document reconstruction insurance;
- Express Mail shipping containers; shipment receipt; optional
- return receipt service; optional COD service; waiver of
- signature option; collection boxes; optional pickup service.
- </p>
- <p> Consult Postmaster or account representative for additional
- information on other Express Mail services (same day airport,
- custom designed, military, and international) and a copy of
- your local Express Mail network directory.
- </p>
- <p> The Postal Service will refund, upon application to the
- originating office, the postage for any Express Mail shipments
- not meeting the service standard, except for those delayed by
- strike or work stoppage.
- </p>
- <p>Source: United States Postal Service; Notice 59, Jan. 1991.
- </p>
- </body>
- </article>
- </text>