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About The United States Postal Service
- USPS is the United States Postal Service.
- USPS delivers mail to 134 million delivery addresses, including
20 million post office boxes. About 1 million new addresses are
added each year.
- USPS carries more mail to more people over a larger geographic
area than any other country.
- Serves 7 million customers daily at one of 38,000 postal retail
outlets.
- Accepts billions in credit/debit card payments annually.
- Provides stamps through the Internet, by mail, phone, automatic
teller machines (ATMs) and at more than 21,000 private retail
outlets.
- Collects mail from more than 312,000 street mail collection
boxes.
- Employs 797,795 career employees, including 48,478 employees
with disabilities and 251,725 veterans.
- Invest billions of dollars annually in new or improved buildings
and mail processing equipment ($3 billion in 1999).
- Pays $1.6 billion in employee salaries and benefits every two
weeks.
- USPS national distribution network and infrastructure gives
people access to every household in US.
- USPS handles 46% of the world’s card and letter mail volume.
- Delivers more than 200 billion pieces of mail a year.
- Transports mail by airplane (15,000 commercial airplane flights/daily)
truck, railroad, boat, and even by mule to/from the bottom of
the Grand Canyon.
- Pays billions a year primarily for air and highway transportation
costs. ($4 billion in 1999).
- Operates a transport and delivery fleet of 202,000 vehicles
driving 1.1 billion miles a year.
- Delivers per carrier about 2,300 pieces of mail a day to 500
addresses.
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The US Mail is perhaps the most visible and personal of all federal services.
People know they can trust the U.S. Mail. Additionally, postal employees
are a part of the neighborhoods they serve and make significant contributions
to their communities. A poll conducted by the Louis Harris organization
gave the U.S. Mail the highest security rating above phones, faxes, e-mail,
and the Internet. The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is the law enforcement
arm of the Postal Service responsible for investigating criminal acts
involving the mails, thus assuring postal customers of the “sanctity
of the seal” when entrusting their money, messages and merchandise
to the mails. In 1999, Postal Inspectors arrested 10,388 criminal suspects
for postal crimes, including mail theft, mail fraud, robbery, and prohibited
mailings of drugs, bombs & child pornography. Service performance
for on-time local delivery of First-Class Mail ended 1999 at 93%, nearly
93% of the nation’s households also rated their over-all satisfaction.
The Postal Service is recognized as a leader in efforts to make the world
a safer and cleaner place and has received numerous environmental awards
for its practices, including the United Nations Award for Environmental
Excellence in 1999. They operate the nation’s largest fleet of alternative-fueled
vehicles (AFV) operating on clean fuels such as compressed natural gas
and electricity. By 2002, the AFV fleet will grow to nearly 30,000 vehicles.
Recycled nearly one million tons of wastepaper, cardboard, plastics, cans
and other material in 1999, resulting in less landfill material and $10
million in revenue.
Purchase more than $160 million worth of products recycled content, including
pallets and trays, stamp products and mailing with the Postal Service
as excellent, very good or good. It is estimated that 17% of the nation’s
population moves every year. Resulted in 44 million change-of-address
cards in 1999. USPS is a major partner in the crusade to identify marrow
donors. Working with ADVO to reunite families, the “Have You Seen
Me” detached direct mail card has led to the safe recovery of 99
missing children. The nation’s largest one-day food drive, sponsored
by the National Association of Letter Carriers, has raised over 328.1
million pounds of food to feed the hungry since the annual nationwide
effort began in 1993. Many postage stamps have helped raise awareness
of social issues. Sales of the semi-postal breast cancer research stamp
also raised revenues for research – nearly $10 million by the end
of 1999.
For more information about the United States Postal Service,
go to www.usps.com.
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