Shopping, shopping, shopping — any time of day, any day of the week, and any week of the year — all in the comfort of your own home. While you can call 1-800-ASK-USPS to locate the postal store nearest you, the Internet has brought shopping convenience to consumers of many products and services, including postal products and services.

Whether it’s business or personal packaging products, or stamps, they’re just a click away. The USPS Web site at www.usps.com offers a variety of mailing and gifts items. Type in the search word “Postal Store” to gain access to the easiest way to shop at the post office.

You can order free packaging supplies such as envelopes, labels, tape, and boxes for Priority Mail, Express Mail, Global Priority Mail, Global Express Mail™, and Global Express Guaranteed® services. In addition, many forms such as receipt for certified mail, Signature Confirmation, Delivery Confirmation, and several customs forms are available at the Postal Store.

Whether you are a stamp user or a stamp collector, the Postal Store has stamps, stamp products such as frame sets, information on future stamp releases and past issues, listings of philatelic centers, listings of free philatelic periodicals, and other information. A listing of foreign postal administrations also is provided, with direct links to these organizations for philatelists collecting international stamps.

You can let your fingers do the walking and shop to your heart’s content at the Postal Store.