As an essential business, we at The Shipping Post are doing our best to continue to offer essential mailing and shipping services.

Due to the rapidly changing circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, please be advised that our plans and hours can change on a moment’s notice.  Please visit this site often as we will attempt to keep these messages current.  

The Shipping Post greatly values the health and safety of our customers and employees and have implemented the following guidelines for helping to prevent the spread of the virus:

• If you have packages to ship and are unable to come into the store, please contact us and we will do our best to make other arrangements. 

• Please do not come into the stores if you have any symptoms, feel unwell, or have been exposed to the virus.

• Please honor the CDC’s guidelines for avoiding close contact by putting distance between yourself and other people when in the stores.

Currently, all the usual services and products are available:

• US Post Office – shipping, receiving, mailing, drop-offs, stamps
• FedEx – shipping, receiving and drop-offs
• UPS – shipping, receiving and drop-offs
• DHL– shipping, receiving and drop-offs
• Notary Services (call ahead to check availability)
• Greeting Cards and Gifts
• Faxing, Emailing, Scanning, Copying, Laminating

To our valued mailbox holders:

• If you are unable to pick up your mail, please contact us and we will make other arrangements. 
• Please provide us with either an email or a cell phone number (preferably both) so that we can add you to our Smart Alert Notification service.  
• We will be offering this service for free during the duration of the pandemic and ask that everyone sign on as it gives us a quick, effective and easy means to keep each of you informed.
• We ask, for the time being, not to call and ask us to check your mailbox. Staffing is in short supply.  Please get signed up for Smart Alert and we’ll let you know every time you receive mail or packages (junk mail and magazines are excluded from notification).

Hours of Operation – Port Charlotte

Monday through Friday from 9 am until 5:30 pm

Saturdays from 9 am until 1 pm

Closed on Sundays

Notary Services are available most days – please call ahead:

Port Charlotte location phone number: 941-743-4499

Hours of Operation – Punta Gorda

Monday through Friday from 9 am until 5:30 pm

Saturdays from 9 am to 1 pm

Closed on Sundays

Notary Service should be available daily until 4 PM – please call ahead:

Punta Gorda location phone number: 941-639-8883

In the coming days, weeks, and months, we will continue to stay informed and adjust our course to help you stay on yours.  We’re here to help, so please stay in touch and let us know how we can best serve you.  Stay well.