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Priority Mail®

  

For your business.

With delivery in about 2 days and affordable prices, Priority Mail is a great choice for shipping packages and envelopes. It includes free pickup at your door. Plus, when you ship online, you’ll get special savings and free Delivery Confirmation™.

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Features

  • Delivery within 2 days in most cases
  • Free Package Pickup™*
  • Includes Delivery Confirmation when you ship online
  • Saturday delivery** and residential delivery at no extra cost
  • The only 2-day service that delivers to mailboxes, mail slots, and PO Boxes™
  • Flat Rate pricing available
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Learn about Priority Mail Flat Rates® for Business ›

Downloadable Pricing Files
Priority Mail - Commercial Base™
Priority Mail - Commercial Plus™
Priority Mail - Retail
Priority Mail - Commercial Plus Cubic

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* For details on Free Package Pickup, go to www.usps.com/pickup.
** Except if Saturday is a national holiday when Express Mail® service is available for an added charge.

With Priority Mail®, you already get…

Delivery status info with our Track & Confirm tool.

Carrier Pickup™ to have your carrier pick up the package at your door.

If you buy Priority Mail service online, you get…

Delivery Confirmation™ to see when it was delivered or delivery was attempted. Must meet additional requirements.

You can add the following options online…

Insurance coverage up to $5000, with a USPS.com® online label or PC Postage label.

Signature Confirmation™ to see when it was delivered or delivery was attempted, and add security by requiring a signature. Must meet additional requirements.

Hold For Pickup so customers can pick up valuable and perishable merchandise at a designated Post Office.

You can add the following options at a Post Office™ to…

Insure the contents.

Insurance coverage up to $5,000.

Registered Mail™ for loss or damage up to $25,000.

Get delivery information.

Delivery Confirmation to see when it was delivered or delivery was attempted. Must meet additional requirements.

Signature Confirmation to see when it was delivered or delivery was attempted, and add security by requiring a signature. Must meet additional requirements.

Get proof of mailing.

Certificate of Mailing as a way of proving the date you sent it.

Get proof of mailing and delivery information.

Certified Mail™ See when it was delivered or delivery was attempted. Requires the signature of the recipient.

Get proof of delivery.

Return Receipt with proof of delivery sent by mail or email. Must meet additional requirements.

Return Receipt for Merchandise with proof that you mailed the contents to your customer and proof of delivery sent by email, fax, or postcard. Must meet additional requirements.

Get only authorized recipients to sign for the delivery.

Restricted Delivery to specify who is allowed to sign for the delivery.

Get your customers to pay for merchandise.

Collect on Delivery (COD) Recipient pays for merchandise and shipping when they receive the package. Must meet additional requirements.

Send contents needing extra care.

Special Handling to get preferential handling.

Learn more about extra services for business mailings ›

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Businesses qualify for this pricing by…

  • Printing a label with postage on USPS.com®.
  • Using an approved PC Postage provider.
  • Using a permit imprint when a postal routing barcode matching the destination ZIP Code is on the mailpiece. Flat-shaped mailpieces with permit imprints may bear a POSTNET or Intelligent Mail barcode instead of the postal routing barcode.
  • Priority Mail Open and Distribute customers using permit imprint when a Service barcode containing a unique service type code 55 is on the address label.
  • Customers who pay postage using information-based indicia (IBI) postage meters in conjunction with an approved shipping label that bears a confirmation services barcode with a postal routing code.
  • Customers using USPS-approved IBI postage meters that print the IBI with the appropriate price marking ("Commercial Base Price," "Commercial Base Pricing," or "ComBasPrice") and who electronically transmit transactional data to the USPS and use an approved Priority Mail shipping label.
  • Permit holders using Merchandise Return Service (MRS) for Priority Mail mailpieces when all MRS requirements are met.

Existing Priority Mail customers qualify for this pricing by being…

  • Registered end-users of USPS-approved PC Postage products who qualify for commercial base prices and whose account volume exceeds 100,000 pieces in the previous calendar year or who have a customer commitment agreement with the USPS.
  • Permit imprint customers who qualify for commercial base prices and whose account volume exceeds 100,000 pieces in the previous calendar year or who have a customer commitment agreement with the USPS.
  • Priority Mail Open and Distribute (PMOD) customers who qualify for commercial base prices and whose account volume exceeds 600 PMOD containers in the previous calendar year or who have a customer commitment agreement with the USPS.
  • Permit holders using Merchandise Return Service for Priority Mail items who qualify for commercial base prices and whose account volumes exceed 100,000 pieces in the previous calendar year or who have a customer commitment agreement with the USPS.
  • Commercial plus prices are available for new Priority Mail customers who have a customer commitment agreement with the USPS.