Postal Service Introduces PayPal as Online Shipping Payment Option

WASHINGTON, June 11, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Postal Service has added PayPal as a payment option for its popular Click-N-Ship online shipping application.

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Customers using Click-N-Ship now can choose to pay for their shipping labels using a credit card, Bill Me Later, or PayPal.

PayPal is just one of several enhancements added to the U. S. Postal Service's Click-N-Ship tool and part of a broader redesign of usps.com to make the online shipping and shopping experience more flexible.

"Our customers have told us they would like more payment options when shipping online and that's why we are excited to announce we are now accepting PayPal," said Kelly Sigmon, vice president, Channel Access for the U.S. Postal Service.

How does it work? PayPal is a global e-commerce payment option that allows customers to pay for their purchases over the internet. Once Click-N-Ship customers have completed their shipping labels and are ready to check out, they simply select the PayPal option.

PayPal allows customers to pay securely, without sharing financial information. The service provides flexibility to pay with multiple options, including PayPal account balances, bank accounts, credit cards or promotional financing. PayPal is a fast and secure way to pay that fits perfectly into the U.S. Postal Service's expanding online strategy to make it easier and more convenient for customers to do their postal business — anytime, anywhere.

Get to know the new Click-N-Ship — online 24/7.

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

A self-supporting government enterprise, the U.S. Postal Service is the only delivery service that reaches every address in the nation — 151 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 $65 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 35th in the 2011 Fortune 500. In 2011, Oxford Strategic Consulting ranked the U.S. Postal Service number one in overall service performance of the posts in the top 20 wealthiest nations in the world. 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 for six years and the sixth Most Trusted Business in the nation by the Ponemon Institute.

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