CLIPBOARD : Shopping Mall Postal Booths

Many county shoppers can buy gifts and mail them to their out-of-town relatives without leaving the shopping mall. The U.S. Postal Service has set up booths in selected malls throughout the county. The booths offer the services found in any post office, such as parcel post and express, priority, insured and registered mails. Products available include holiday stamps, padded envelopes and shipping cartons. The booths will open Friday and continue to operate through Dec. 23, except as noted.

ANAHEIM PLAZA

(Near the mall’s front entrance, across from the Busy Bee restaurant) 500 N. Euclid St., Anaheim

Hours: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Mondays-Fridays; 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays

BREA MALL

(On the lower level, two doors from Sears Roebuck & Co.) 2027 Brea Mall, Brea

Hours: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Mondays-Fridays; 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturdays; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sundays

HUNTINGTON CENTER

(In the Mervyn’s Department Store wing on the first level) 7777 Edinger Ave., Huntington Beach

Hours: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Mondays-Fridays; 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturdays and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sundays

LAGUNA HILLS MALL

(In front of the Broadway) 24155 Laguna Hills Mall, Laguna Hills

Hours: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Mondays-Fridays; 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturdays and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sundays

MAINPLACE/SANTA ANA

(First level near Papyrus in the new wing )

2800 N. Main St., Santa Ana

Hours: 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday; 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday and Dec. 2; 10 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Monday through Dec. 1; 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Dec. 10-15; 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Dec. 16; closed Saturday, Dec. 3-9 and every day after Dec. 16

MALL OF ORANGE

(In front of See’s Candies and Wet Seal stores) 2298 Orange Mall, Orange

Hours: noon to 8 p.m. Mondays-Fridays; 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 3 to 8 p.m. Saturdays; 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sundays

MISSION VIEJO MALL

(lower level near Montgomery Ward)

27000 Crown Valley Parkway, Mission Viejo

Hours: 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Mondays-Thursdays and Saturdays; 10:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Fridays; closed Sundays

Source: U.S. Postal Service