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Protect and confirm delivery of your important items with insurance and extra services.



PO Boxes

Price: as low as $10 for a 6-month term of service.

What is it?
- A convenient, secure, and flexible way to receive your mail.
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Certificate of Mailing

Price: $1.10

What is it?
- Provides official evidence of mailing.

Available with
- First-Class Mail
- Priority Mail
- Package Services
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Certified Mail

Price: $2.70

What is it?
- Verify delivery online.

Available with
- First-Class Mail
- Priority Mail
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Return Receipt

Price:
- Requested at time of mailing $2.20 (receive by mail)
- Requested at time of mailing $1.00 (receive electronically)
- Requested after mailing (Form 3811-A) $4.35 (receive by fax, mail, or e-mail)

What is it?
- Provides evidence of delivery (information about the recipient's signature and actual delivery address).
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Delivery Confirmation™

Price:
- $0.65 - $0.75 retail purchase
- $0.18 electronic purchase

What is it?
- Get the date, ZIP Code™ and time the item was delivered.
- Access information with our online Track & Confirm tool.
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Signature Confirmation™

Price:
- $2.20 retail purchase
- $1.80 electronic purchase

What is it?
- Verify date, time, and ZIP Code™ of delivery online with Track & Confirm
- Added security that requires a signature from the person who accepts your package.
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Money Order

Price:
- $1.05 for orders of $0.01 to $500
- $1.50 for $500.01 to $1,000

What is it?
- Send money safely through the mail.
- Purchase with cash, debit card, or traveler's check.
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Premium Forwarding Service

Price:
Enrollment fee—$10.00
Weekly reshipment charge—$11.95

What is it?
- Forwards all of your mail from your permanent address to a temporary address.
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Collect on Delivery (COD)

Price: starts at $5.25

What is it?
- Have customers pay for merchandise and postage at the time of delivery.
- Includes insurance coverage up to $1,000.
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Insured Mail - Purchased at a Retail Outlet

Price: Starts at $1.70

What is it?
- Provides up to $5,000 indemnity coverage for a lost, rifled, or damaged article.

Available with:
- Parcel Post
- Bound Printed Matter
- Media Mail matter
- Merchandise mailed with Priority Mail or First-Class mail.
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Insurance Purchased Online

Price:
Has the same fees as purchased at a Post Office™ and are based on the amount of coverage needed up to $500.

What is it?
- Provides up to $500 indemnity coverage for a lost, rifled, or damaged article.

Available with:
- Domestic and International online labels printed with postage.
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Express Mail Insurance

Price:
- Coverage up to $100 is included with Express Mail.
- $0.75 up to $200 coverage, $2.10 up to $500, and $2.10 plus $1.35 for each $500 or fraction thereof over $500.

What is it?
- Provides up to $5,000 indemnity coverage for a lost, rifled, or damaged article.
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Registered Mail

Price: Starts at $10.00.

What is it?
- Places your valued items under tight security from the point of mailing to the point of delivery.
- Insures items up to $25,000 against loss or damage.

Available with:
- Priority Mail
- First-Class Mail
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Restricted Delivery

Price: $4.30

What is it?
- Ensures that mail is only delivered to a specific person, or to the person authorized in writing to sign for intended recipient.

Available with:
- First-Class Mail
- Priority Mail
- Parcel Post
- Bound Printed Matter
- Media Mail matter that is sent Certified Mail
- COD, mail insured for more that $200, or Registered Mail
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Special Handling

Price:
Not more than 10 pounds: $7.10
More than 10 pounds: $9.90

What is it?
- Provides special treatment for items such as perishables, insects, or poultry.

Available with:
- First-Class Mail
- Priority Mail
- Parcel Post
- Bound Printed Matter
- Media Mail
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