YOUR GUIDE TO HOLIDAY MAILING. If your customers are wondering the best way to send that present to grandma this holiday season, A Customer's Guide to Mailing can help. This user-friendly guide explains options for mailing and helps customers choose the services that are best for them. It's available at post offices nationwide and through www.usps.com. Customers can make decisions about mailing with greater confidence that they're using the right service, the extra service they have chosen will meet their need, and the addressing is correct so their packages can be speedily handled.

A Customer's Guide to Mailing is proving to be a big hit with American households. More than 10,000 people have responded to a Gallup survey in the back of the newly released guide, with 95.3 percent of them saying the guide overall is very useful or useful. In addition, 95.1 percent said it is somewhat or very helpful in choosing a service for mailing, and 82 percent said it has just the right amount of information.

Holiday mailing is a breeze with the United States Postal Service. We'll help customers find the right mailing solution. They'll have to figure out what to send grandma. Slippers anyone?

MANY OFFICES TO OPEN SUNDAYS. Many post offices will stay open late and be open Sundays to handle the blizzard of 20 billion pieces of mail this holiday season. While this year's holiday shopping window between Thanksgiving and Christmas is six days shorter than last year, Chief Operating Officer Pat Donahoe said this year's volume is expected to remain about the same as last year. This year's busiest mailing day is projected to be Monday, Dec. 16, with 850 million of pieces of mail entering the system. Two days later, Wednesday, Dec. 18, will be the busiest delivery day.

During the two weeks prior to Christmas, the National and Area Operations Center network operates around the clock. The network shares information on operations and mail flow between mail processing and distribution centers and with major mailing customers. To move the large holiday volumes, the Postal Service has printed 2.85 billion holiday stamps. It also expanded retail and logistical operations.

In addition to 38,000 post offices, stamps are now available at more than 60,000 drug stores and supermarkets. These locations are identified by a "Buy Stamps Here" decal. Stamps can also be purchased at 17,000 ATMs.