FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
 Contact: Media Relations	202-268-2155
December 13, 2003
	Release No. 100
	www.usps.com

HOLIDAY GREETING CARDS: 
AN ART MADE EASY BY THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE

WASHINGTON, DC - Personalized holiday greeting cards are just a click 
away at the Postal Service's NetPost CardStore. NetPost offers the 
perfect solution to sending greeting cards to friends and family this 
holiday season. Easy to access on www.usps.com, NetPost CardStore allows 
customers to personalize holiday greetings by designing cards online and 
sending them, one card at a time or all at once.

Customers can choose from more than 2,500 images and photos in the 
"Seasons Greetings" category, or may upload personal photos or artwork. 
NetPost CardStore users may choose the suggested greeting or create their 
own. The Postal Service will then print, address and mail the cards. 
Those wishing to hand write a personal message inside their cards can 
request to have the cards mailed to them with fully addressed, stamped 
envelopes. Then let the Postal Service deliver first-class holiday 
greetings to friends and family as it has done for more than two 
centuries.

Customers can also choose from the many holiday stamps available. The 
Postal Service has stamps for this month's various holidays - including 
Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanzaa and Eid - to adorn envelopes. Match the stamp 
to the sentiment of the greeting! 

The Wall Street Journal recently referred to NetPost CardStore as "the 
biggest time-saver of all" in a consumer test of five companies offering 
computer-generated, customized greeting cards. It cited the Postal 
Service's "quick delivery and easy-to-use web site."

A First-Class postage stamp, for thirty-seven cents, will send your 
greeting anywhere in the United States just as it will next year and the 
year after that. The Postal Service is honoring its pledge of stable 
rates through 2006.

Using NetPost CardStore involves just a few steps:

"	Log onto the Postal Service's website at www.usps.com, open 
around the clock for customer convenience. Then follow the step-by-step, 
easy-to-follow directions in the Holiday Helpers' Guide.

"	Register with NetPost Services and go to NetPost CardStore

"	Then create a card by selecting one of thousands of 
professionally-designed, 5x7-inch cards, or create a card by scanning in 
photography or artwork. Personalize cards online by adding a special 
message.

"	The Postal Service will print the cards, address the envelopes 
using the customer's list, mail and deliver them!

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