FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE	
Contact: Media Relations
October 9, 2003	202-268-2155
	Release No. 073
	www.usps.com

U.S. POSTAL SERVICE
SUPPORTS TOUR OF HOPE
      
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team® Leader Lance Armstrong rides 
again in the cross-country, Bristol Myers Squibb Tour of Hope™ beginning in Los Angeles 
on October 11. Among thousands of signed Cancer Promises that Armstrong will deliver in 
the nation's capital on October 18 will be those promises pledged via USPS Premium 
Postcards - with more still to be collected. Cancer Promises are individual pledges 
designed to raise widespread support of cancer research. 

"Using the Postal Service's Premium Postcards, you can send 'promise' postcards to 
family and friends asking them to sign the Cancer Promise," said USPS Chief Marketing 
Officer Anita Bizzotto. "The signed Cancer Promises that Lance will deliver will help 
renew America's commitment to find a cure for cancer and demonstrate the hope we all 
have in cancer research," she added.

Participants can sign Cancer Promises from their homes and offices through the Tour of 
Hope website at http://www.tourofhope.org. To send Promise Postcards, visit the 
official Tour of Hope web site at http://www.makepostcards.com/tourofhope. 

When participants have signed the Cancer Promise, they can use Premium Postcards to 
send the word to up to six friends and family members. The cost is $6 for six cards, 
including postage. Premium Postcards - with participants' names and return addresses 
- will be printed and mailed the next business day.  

"We are very pleased to be a part of the Tour of Hope," said Bizzotto. "And we look 
forward to seeing Lance deliver thousands - hopefully millions - of Cancer Promises 
in Washington, D.C."  

To learn about additional designs and options for custom Premium Postcards, visit the 
Postal Service's web site at http://www.usps.com/netpost/premiumpostcard.htm.

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