Personalize the Holidays with Customized Cards and Postage

Save a Trip; Use CardStore at usps.com

TOPEKA, Kan.  — It’s that time of the year when you want to send friends and relatives holiday greetings. Save time and gasoline this holiday season and send personalized holiday greetings right from your computer using CardStore at usps.com.

“With CardStore you can create beautiful personalized greetings online,” says Postmaster B. Steven Pinkerton. “Use personal photos or choose from more than 50 card designs, including traditional, religious, multi-cultural and non-denominational images and greetings. It’s quick and easy to personalize your cards with your own message. Order one or two cards, or hundreds.”

Turn your cards into caring gifts by including a gift card from one of 26 national retailers. Gift cards are available in denominations from $10 to $200.

“Your cards can be professionally printed and returned to you for mailing,” says Pinkerton, “or you can choose to select a holiday postage stamp and we will take care of addressing and mailing them for you using your mailing list.”

Customized Postage lets customers create postage using their pictures or images to make a card or letter that much more personal.

Getting started is easy. Go online to usps.com/postagesolutions/customizedpostage.htm and pick from one of four authorized postal partners — photo.stamps.com, PictureItPostage.com, zazzle.com or stampexpressions.com. Pick a digital file of the image you want to use. The vendors accept all of the common image formats. Crop, enlarge, rotate and tinker with the image until you get it just the way you want it, then pick a border color. Decide how many you want to buy, and pay online.

Customized Postage can be printed in a variety of denominations, and can be used on postcards, First-Class Mail envelopes, direct mail, packages and more.

The images used on customized postage must not violate copyright laws and cannot be inappropriate or offensive. See the vendor websites for more information.