The Postal Service is always striving to increase the impact, excitement and value of mail. We’ve always embraced new technologies and innovation. We’re firmly focused on improving the mailing experience.
People, machines, vehicles, technology — it’s an impressive feat to get that card from grandma or that package from your favorite online store to your doorstep.
Informed Delivery emails
In fiscal year 2025, USPS sent out more than 14.7 billion Informed Delivery Daily Digest email notifications, featuring more than 33.4 billion mailpieces and 3 billion packages.
Matrix Regional Sorter
The largest piece of automated processing equipment, the Matrix Regional Sorter, can sort up to 52,600 packages an hour.
miles driven in 2025
To move mail using surface transportation, the Postal Service drove more than 1.8 billion miles in 2025.
BROKER
The Label Broker service solves the problem of online customers not being able to print shipping labels. With Label Broker, customers can receive a shipping label on their mobile device directly from the merchant. The customer uses the code to print an outbound or return shipping label at a Post Office or on a printer connected to usps.com.
With Label Broker, customers can get a shipping label on their mobile device, in the form of a matrix barcode, directly from the merchant. The customer uses the code to print an outbound or return shipping label at a Post Office or on a printer connected to usps.com. Label Broker is also the foundational technology that has enabled the USPS Operation Santa program to expand and evolve in a digital format.
For more information, go to usps.com/business/label-broker.htm.
USPS launches its website
The Postal Service launched its first public website, usps.gov, in 1994. The site became usps.com in 2000.
Visitors to usps.gov are redirected to the official Postal Service website, usps.com.
delivery unit sorter
The Automated Delivery Unit Sorter sorts packages and bundles of mail at a rate of 3,400 pieces per hour with a sort accuracy of 99.95 percent.
GREETINGS
Informed Greetings blends the traditional “mail moment” with a modern digital experience by integrating a personalized digital message into the recipient’s USPS Informed Delivery email when they receive a physical greeting card.
Customers can also select artwork that complements their card from hundreds of designs in six different categories.
Vehicle Service Operations
Postal Vehicle Service (PVS) operations include more than 12,500 uniformed motor vehicle and tractor-trailer operators. The PVS fleet includes 377 spotters, 2,570 cargo vans, 2,862 tractors and 8,991 trailers.
at work
The daily operations performed by the Postal Service depend on an astonishing network of people and technologies that collect, transport, process and deliver the nation’s mail.
mail trays
Tray sorting machines sort more than 10 million trays per day through conveyor systems.
of processing equipment
The Postal Service operates more than 8,300 pieces of automated equipment that process and sort nearly half the world’s mail.
Mobile Delivery Devices
Mobile Delivery Devices (MDDs) provide real-time scanning for daily delivery operations. There are more than 280,000 MDDs in use nationwide.
USPS and mailers
The Postal Customer Council (PCC) is a USPS-sponsored organization designed to facilitate collaboration between the Postal Service and business mailers and shippers. Local PCCs throughout the country provide members with resources that include educational workshops, certification programs and networking opportunities. By offering access to USPS support, the PCC is a vital partner in helping businesses optimize their mailing and shipping operations and achieve sustainable growth.
More information is available at postalpro.usps.com/pcc.
providing technical advice
The Postmaster General’s Mailers Technical Advisory Committee is a venue for the Postal Service to share technical information with mailers and to receive their advice and recommendations on matters concerning mail-related products and services. More information can be found at postalpro.usps.com/mtac.
stamps postmarked per hour
The Advanced Facer Canceller System positions letter mail and postmarks stamps at a rate of 36,000 pieces per hour.
miles of conveyors
The Postal Service has one of the largest material-handling systems in the world for moving mail. There are more than 200 miles of conveyors within postal facilities.
character recognition
The Postal Service is the world leader in optical character recognition technology, with machines reading nearly 98 percent of all hand-addressed letters and 99.5 percent of machine-printed mail.
mailpieces
With picture permit indicia, commercial mailers can modify the permit imprint indicia on First-Class Mail and Marketing Mail with a corporate logo, brand image or trademark to raise their brand awareness and market products and services.
Intelligent Mail
A unique Intelligent Mail barcode identifies individual pieces of mail, trays, sacks and containers to track them through the postal processing system from induction to delivery.
more than $6M in revenue
Every Door Direct Mail (EDDM) began in 2011 and is designed to help business mailers direct their Marketing Mail pieces to customers in a select neighborhood, city or ZIP Code. Nearly 3 billion pieces were sent in fiscal year 2025, totaling $617,161,072 million in revenue.
The USPS Printer Directory provides customers free access to local print, design and mail preparation services for Every Door Direct Mail and other direct mail products through a searchable database and mapping program. Hundreds of listings populate the directory that serves small and medium-sized businesses nationwide.
Informed Delivery customers
With Informed Delivery, you can digitally preview your incoming mail and manage your packages from a computer, tablet or mobile device. More than 67 million customers have enrolled since it was launched in 2017.
Informed Delivery provides eligible residential customers with a digital preview of their household’s incoming mail scheduled to arrive soon. Users can view greyscale images of the exterior, address side of incoming letter-sized mail pieces (not the inside contents) via email or an online dashboard.
Informed Delivery also allows customers to track packages delivered by the Postal Service and see when they will be delivered.
For more information and to sign up, go to usps.com/informeddelivery.
handheld scanners
The Postal Service communications network supports and maintains 157,681 workstations, 31,252 server computers, 52,689 printers, 31,092 smartphones, 838 tablets and more than 430,000 handheld scanners.
robotics systems
The Postal Service has the largest gantry robotic fleet in the world with 165 robotics systems moving 300,000 mail trays per day.
Trademarks
The Sonic Eagle Logo, the trade dress of USPS packaging, the Letter Carrier Uniform and the Postal Truck and the following marks are among the many trademarks owned by the United States Postal Service: Click-N-Ship®, Deliver The Win®, EDDM®, ePostage®, Every Door Direct Mail®, Express Mail®, First-Class™, First-Class Mail®, First-Class Package International Service®, Forever®, Global Express Guaranteed®, IMb®, Informed Delivery®, Intelligent Mail®, Label Broker™, Parcel Select®, P.O. Box™, Post Office®, Pony Express®, Postal Inspection Service™, PostalOne!®, Postal Police®, #PostalProud®, Priority Mail Express International®, Priority Mail Flat Rate®, Priority Mail International®, Priority: You®, Registered Mail™, Standard Mail®, The Postal Store®, United States Postal Inspection Service®, United States Postal Service®, U.S. Mail®, U.S. Postal Inspector™, U.S. Postal Service®, USPS®, USPS BlueEarth®, USPS Mobile®, USPS Operation Santa®, USPS Tracking®, usps.com®, We are people delivering to people™, ZIP+4® and ZIP Code™. This is not a comprehensive list of all Postal Service trademarks.
Non-Postal Trademarks
Dollar General®, Forest Stewardship Council®, How2Recycle®, McDonald’s®, National Dog Bite Prevention Week®, Starbucks®, Subway®, Sustainable Forestry Initiative®, The Climate Registry®.
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Trademarks
The Sonic Eagle Logo, the trade dress of USPS packaging, the Letter Carrier Uniform and the Postal Truck and the following marks are among the many trademarks owned by the United States Postal Service: Click-N-Ship®, Deliver The Win®, EDDM®, ePostage®, Every Door Direct Mail®, Express Mail®, First-Class™, First-Class Mail®, First-Class Package International Service®, Forever®, Global Express Guaranteed®, IMb®, Informed Delivery®, Intelligent Mail®, Label Broker™, Parcel Select®, P.O. Box™, Post Office®, Pony Express®, Postal Inspection Service™, PostalOne!®, Postal Police®, #PostalProud®, Priority Mail Express International®, Priority Mail Flat Rate®, Priority Mail International®, Priority: You®, Registered Mail™, Standard Mail®, The Postal Store®, United States Postal Inspection Service®, United States Postal Service®, U.S. Mail®, U.S. Postal Inspector™, U.S. Postal Service®, USPS®, USPS BlueEarth®, USPS Mobile®, USPS Operation Santa®, USPS Tracking®, usps.com®, We are people delivering to people™, ZIP+4® and ZIP Code™. This is not a comprehensive list of all Postal Service trademarks.
Non-Postal Trademarks
Dollar General®, Forest Stewardship Council®, How2Recycle®, McDonald’s®, National Dog Bite Prevention Week®, Starbucks®, Subway®, Sustainable Forestry Initiative®, The Climate Registry®.
Postal Facts 2024 provides the public with information about the U.S. Postal Service. The facts in this publication may be reproduced for the purpose of stating the fact itself, in a business, informational or academic context and the like, and in the body of text discussing factual subject matter relevant to the fact being presented. However, these facts may become outdated after publication and seeking the latest information is advised.
Produced by U.S. Postal Service Corporate Communications
© 2024 United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
© 2016-2026 United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
