Our priority is and always will be delivering great service that’s affordable and dependable. When you ship with Priority Mail, you get free shipping supplies, flat-rate options, insurance included, USPS Tracking and easy online tools. It all adds up to one of the best values in the shipping business!
International Mail revenue
International Mail is a $1.41 billion business within the Postal Service.
bargain
The price of a First-Class postage stamp is a global bargain.
generation vehicles
In December 2022, USPS announced plans to acquire 106,000 new vehicles, including at least 66,000 battery electric delivery vehicles. This includes 21,000 commercial off-the-shelf battery electric vehicles and 45,000 battery electric Next Generation Delivery Vehicles (NGDV). The NGDVs provide better visibility, ergonomic seating, air conditioning, safety improvements and user-friendly operations.
in a shipping container
The Power, MT (59468) Post Office, built in 2019, is the first Post Office built using a shipping container.
pounds of mail fly each day
The Postal Service used 150 domestic airports to fly 3.7 million pounds of mail each day in 2024.
Postal Union
The Postal Service is a member of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), a United Nations' organization.
The Postal Service is a member of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), a United Nations’ organization.
Post Corporation
The Postal Service is one of 26 members of the International Post Corporation (IPC). The IPC is a cooperative association of posts in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.
The Postal Service is one of 26 members of the International Post Corporation (IPC). The IPC is a cooperative association of posts in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.
Post Group
The Postal Service is one of 10 members of the Kahala Post Group (KPG).
The Postal Service is one of 11 members of the Kahala Posts Group (KPG).
Service Cooperative
The Postal Service is a member of the Express Mail Service (EMS) Cooperative. The EMS Cooperative was created by the UPU in 1999 and consists of 176 postal operators. It allows access to more than 180-member countries to provide EMS — the UPU’s fastest cross-border international postal product.
The Postal Service is a member of the Express Mail Service (EMS) Cooperative.
Group
The Postal Service is one of 36 members of the .POST Group. The UPU’s .POST Group, created in 2013, is a trusted internet domain, established exclusively for the global postal sector and sponsored by the UPU.
The mission of the .POST Group is to support posts in providing their customers with reliable and secure web services.
BROKER
The Lable Broker service solves the ever-increasing problem of online customers not being able to print shipping labels.
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.
deliver!
The Postal Service moves mail by planes, hovercraft, trains, trucks, cars, boats, ferries, helicopters, subways, bicycles, mules and feet.
GLOBALLY
The Postal Service works closely with posts around the world to improve service and increase its annual share of the international shipping market.
in short-paid revenue
The Automated Package Verification program automates the detection and collection of postage due for mailpieces with insufficient postage using automated package processing equipment. The APV program collected $140.9 million in short-paid revenue in 2024.
usps.com destinations
The top five destinations on usps.com in 2024, in order of popularity, were USPS Tracking, Informed Delivery, ZIP Code Lookup, USPS FAQs and The Postal Store.
Top five pages on usps.com, in order of popularity, in 2024:
Sunday best
Our Sunday best. The Postal Service operates Sunday package delivery to meet the shipping needs of customers.
YOU!
Priority: YOU! The Postal Service priority is and always will be serving you. With free shipping supplies, flat-rate options, $100 worth of free insurance for most shipments, improved tracking and easy online tools, Priority Mail shipping offers one of the best values in the shipping business.
Here’s more you should know:
Priority Mail Express offers you overnight delivery to many U.S. locations with up to $100 of insurance coverage included with most shipments.
With Priority Mail Flat Rate boxes and envelopes, there’s no need to weigh or calculate postage of packages up to 70 pounds.
Priority Mail and Priority Mail Express boxes, envelopes and labels, as well as customs pouches for international mailing products, are available at no charge. They can be ordered at usps.com and delivered to your door or picked up at a local Post Office.
Priority Mail is the environmental choice — boxes are recyclable!
Click-N-Ship labels
The Click-N-Ship app allows customers to print shipping labels with postage for Priority Mail, Priority Mail Express, Priority Mail Next Day, Priority Mail International, Priority Mail Express International and First-Class Package International Service. Click-N-Ship customers created more than 32 million labels, which generated nearly $385 million in sales in 2024.
visits to USPS mobile site
The USPS Mobile app was downloaded more than 6.7 million times from the Apple App and Google Play stores. In 2024, there were more than 3.7 billion visits to usps.com from a mobile device.
The Post Office on your phone. The Postal Service app — USPS Mobile — is available on Apple and Android platforms. Some of the most popular functions currently available on usps.com — USPS Tracking, Informed Delivery, Post Office Locator, ZIP Code Lookup, The Postal Store, calculating postage, holding mail, requesting Package Pickup and ordering shipping supplies — are now available on most smartphones.
USPS mobile app downloads
There's a Post Office on your phone. In 2024, the Postal Service app — USPS Mobile — was downloaded more than 6.7 million times from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
The free usps.com iPhone app was launched in 2009.
Some of the most popular functions currently available on usps.com — Informed Delivery, USPS Tracking, Post Office Locator, ZIP Code Lookup, calculating postage, holding mail, requesting Package Pickup and ordering shipping supplies — are now available on most smartphones.
In 2024, there were more than 3.7 billion visits to usps.com from a mobile device.
point-of-sale systems
There are 48,000 retail point-of-sale systems installed in 20,400 locations that provide services at windows, military sites, business partners and self-service kiosk systems.
in SSK revenue
In 2024, the Postal Service received $243.6 million in revenue from 2,800 postal self-service kiosks (SSK).
passport applications
The Postal Service accepted 7.9 million passport applications in 2024.
historic buildings
More than 1,400 USPS-owned buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Our History is the History of America
Many Postal Service buildings are historical properties. At many Post Office locations, you’ll find impressive works
of art that reflect the stories of our people and our nation.
if a private sector company
If it were a private sector company, the Postal Service would rank 52nd in the 2024 Fortune 500.
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.
annual industry conference
National Postal Forum (NPF). The annual mailing industry conference provides educational and networking opportunities for thousands of business customers. Attendees learn about the latest mail trends and innovations through more than 100 workshops and seminars. More information can be found at npf.org.
More information can be found at npf.org.
Care Kit
The Postal Service offers a Military Care Kit to ship directly to Army/Air Post Office, Fleet Post Office and Diplomatic Post Office locations. The kit contains Priority Mail Flat Rate Boxes, address labels, tape and customs forms. It can be ordered at no charge at usps.com/shop or by calling 800-610- 8734.
The Military Care Kit — and the special pricing offered for APO, FPO and DPO destinations — makes it easy to send care packages to loved ones stationed overseas.
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.
more than $5B in revenue
Every Door Direct Mail 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. Since 2011, more than 33 billion pieces of Every Door Direct Mail pieces have been sent, resulting in $5 billion in revenue. Nearly 3 billion pieces were sent in 2024, totaling $588 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.
total retail offices
The Postal Service had 33,780 retail offices across the United States in 2024. This number includes contract locations. The Postal Service has 31,063 postal-managed retail offices.
Post Offices
There are 31,063 Postal Service-managed retail offices in the United States. Including contract offices, there are 33,780 offices.
customer visits
The Postal Service had 655.2 million customer visits in 2024.
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.
retail space
The largest U.S. Postal Service retail space is the James A. Farley Post Office in New York, NY (10001), at 33,100 square feet.
a retail giant
We’re a retail giant. The Postal Service has the nation’s largest retail network (33,780) — larger than Subway (20,484), Dollar General (20,376), Starbucks (15,270) and McDonald’s (13,598).
money orders
In 2024, the Postal Service issued 58.5 million money orders, which equates to roughly 160,274 money orders each day.
During 2023, the Postal Service issued 58.5 million money orders.
in online sales
In 2024, stamp and retail sales at The Postal Store, the official online Post Office, totaled $419 million.
billion visits
usps.com is one of the most frequently visited government sites with 4.7 billion visits in 2024 — averaging more than 12.6 million visitors each day.
package pickup
With Package Pickup, you can go online to request Priority Mail Express and Priority Mail packages be picked up at your home or offices as part of your mail carrier’s regular route — for free.
online sales
In 2024, stamp and retail sales at The Postal Store, the official online Post Office, totaled $419 million.
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®.
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© 2016-2025 United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
