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Key facts about the U.S. Postal Service

February 22, 2006

• The USPS delivers to every household and business in the United States.
  
  

• Every American has access to products and services and pays the same postage rate for first-class mail service regardless of geographic location.
  
  
• Delivers 212 billion pieces of mail to over 144 million homes, businesses and post office boxes in virtually every state, city, and town in the country, including Puerto Rico, Guam, the American Virgin Islands and American Samoa.
  
  
• Handles more than 44% of the world's card and letter mail volume – delivering more mail to more addresses and to a larger geographic area than any other postal service in the world.
  
  li>Serves over 7.5 million customers daily at more than 37,000 post offices.
  
  
• Provides stamps at: More than 27,800 vending machines, nearly 25,400 commercial retail outlets, nearly 15,300 banking and credit union ATMs and 2,500 automated postal centers.
  
  
• Has an annual operating revenue of nearly $70 billion.
  
  
• Employs more than 700,000 career employees.
  
  
• Pays more than $2 billion in salaries and benefits every 2 weeks.
  
  

• When fuel costs rise just one cent, its costs increase $8 million.
  
  
• In 2005, stamp sales on the Postal Store on usps.com exceeded $135 million.
• Operates the world's largest fleet of alternative fuel vehicles – more than 30,000 of them -- that use fuels such as ethanol and electricity.
  
  
• About 14% of the nation's population moves every year, generating more than 45 million address changes.
  
  

Source: U.S. Postal Service

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