The Automated Package Verification (APV) program automates the detection and collection of postage due for mail pieces with insufficient postage through the use of automated package processing equipment. The Postal Service collected $45 million in short-paid revenue and deterred more than $198 million in short-paid postage in 2019.

In 2019, the Postal Service handled 45.7 billion mail pieces from more than 501 mailers under Seamless Acceptance and collected $675,000 in additional postage.

The eInduction process simplifies mail induction by leveraging eDoc, Intelligent Mail container barcodes and handheld scanner technologies to verify the payment and preparation of commercial mail containers. In 2019, 1,108 mailers took advantage of eInduction.

The Enterprise Payment System allows customers to pay for and manage their use of Postal Service products and services online, using an integrated single payment account. In 2019, EPS collected $16 billion in revenue.

The commercial mail acceptance program enables automation of verification and acceptance of commercial mail. USPS currently has 10,802 business mail entry units and 874 detached mail units. In 2019, commercial mail acceptance processed 27 million commercial postage statements.

The Electronic Verification System allows high-volume package mailers and package consolidators to document and pay for postage using electronic manifest files. In 2019, eVS processed 3.6 billion packages from 3,219 shippers and collected $8.8 billion in revenue.

More than $57 billion in postage was collected from more than 50,000 customers through permits, meters and PC Postage in 2019.

You call that scribble legible? Employees at the Remote Encoding Center in Salt Lake City, UT, are responsible for deciphering terribly handwritten or shoddily printed addresses.

In 2019, the Postal Service released several stamps that highlighted printing technologies that were new to the production of our stamps, including the Frozen Treats stamps -- the first "scratch and sniff" stamp.

The Delivery Barcode Sorter reads the barcode on letters and sorts them at 36,000 pieces per hour.

Tray sorting machines sort more than 18 million trays per day through conveyor systems.

The Postal Service uses more than 8,500 pieces of automation processing equipment to sort nearly half the world's mail.

Mobile Delivery Devices provide real-time scanning for daily delivery operations. There are more than 260,000 devices in use nationwide.

The Postal Service maintains 46,000 point-of-sale terminals and 2,733 self-service retail kiosks nationwide supported by the IT team.

Postal Customer Councils connect business mailers with local Post Office leadership to develop more effective and profitable mailings through training and information sharing. Since the 1960s, PCCs have been the go-to local resource for helping mailers learn, innovate and build their businesses.

Representing select mailing associations, the Postmaster General's Mailers' Technical Advisory Committee works to enhance the value of mail by providing technical advice and recommendations to the Postal Service.

The National Postal Forum is an annual mailing industry conference that 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.

The Advanced Facer Canceller System positions letter mail and postmarks stamps at 36,000 pieces per hour.

The Postal Service is one of the largest material-handling systems in the world for moving mail. There are more than 200 miles of conveyors within postal facilities.

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.

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.

Every Door Direct Mail is an online service that uses demographic data to help business mailers target their marketing mailpieces to customers in a select neighborhood, city or ZIP Code. Since 2011, there have been more than 4 million transactions, 20 billion mailpieces and $3.5 billion in revenue.

With Informed Delivery service, you can digitally preview your incoming mail and manage your packages from a computer, tablet or mobile device. More than 20 million customers have enrolled since it was launched in 2017.

Our communications network supports and maintains more than 147,000 desktop computers, 31,000 notebook computers, 86,000 printers, 23,000 smartphones, 250,000 phone lines and 310,000 handheld scanners.

The Postal Service has the largest gantry robotic fleet in the world using 174 robotics systems to move 314,000 mail trays per day.

Postal Inspectors in partnership with AARP promoted "Operation Protect Veterans" to raise awareness about scams that are targeted toward military veterans.

In 1971 the Postal Inspection Service became one of the first federal law enforcement organizations to hire female agents.

During 2019, there were 14 national mail screening events, including the Super Bowl. More than 26,000 mailpieces and private courier deliveries were screened at the events, heightening safety and security for all.

Postal Inspectors educate the American public about scams and how to avoid them. A weekly TV series, The Inspectors, is based on real-life cases. This innovative program reaches 1 million viewers weekly.

Forensic scientists and specialists examined 125,000 physical evidence items at the Postal Inspection Service's state-of-the-art National Forensic Laboratory, leading to 999 suspects identified.

Postal Inspectors conducted 11 investigations of the use of mail to exploit children and made 9 arrests.

Postal Inspectors investigated 576 reported threats and assaults against postal employees during 2019. They made 247 arrests that resulted in 154 convictions.

The Postal Inspection Service seized 2,252 assets worth $143 million, with 63 percent of seizures from illegal narcotics and related proceeds. It made 2,562 arrests for illegal-narcotics related cases.

Postal Inspectors responded to and investigated 3,289 suspicious mail incidents in 2019.

Postal Inspectors in 2019 recovered misappropriated or stolen mail transport equipment worth $1,700,000.

Security. U.S. Mail is protected by more than 200 federal laws enforced by the Postal Inspection Service, one of the nation's oldest law enforcement agencies.

In 2019 Postal Inspectors reported 5,759 arrests and 4,995 convictions related to postal crimes, primarily those involving mail theft, mail fraud and prohibited mailings.

The most unusual delivery method used by USPS is a mule train in Arizona. The mules carry mail, food and supplies down an 8-mile trail to the Havasupai Indians at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.

Franklin is the most common city name in the country with 31. Clinton and Washington are tied for second with 29 and Arlington is at third with 28. The most common Post Office name is Clinton, with 26 locations, followed by Madison with 25 and Franklin and Washington tied for third with 24.

The most common street name in the country is Main -- more than 13,000 of them -- followed by 2nd and Maple, with more than 8,000 each. The longest Main Street is in Island Park, ID, and is 33 miles long.

The most common street name in the country is Main -- more than 13,000 of them -- followed by 2nd and Maple, with more than 8,000 each.

The ZIP Code with the most possible street deliveries is Cathedral Station, NY, 10025 - with 46,167!

Our Post Office in Utqiagvik, North Slope of Alaska -- formerly Barrow (99723) and Wainwright (99782) -- experiences the coldest temperatures.

The shortest rural delivery route is in Parker, CO. The carrier travels 2.3 miles and delivers to 837 boxes.

The longest rural delivery route is in Sidney, MT. The carrier travels 190.7 miles daily and delivers to 272 boxes.

The easiest to remember ZIP Code is 12345, a unique ZIP Code for General Electric in Schenectady, NY.

The highest ZIP Code number is 99950 in Ketchikan, AK.

The lowest ZIP Code number is 00501, unique for the Internal Revenue Service in Holtsville, NY.

Dock-to-dock delivery on the Magnolia River in Alabama. A 15-foot contract mail boat delivers to 176 dock-side mailboxes on a 31-mile stretch of the river.

Boat delivery is available on the Detroit River in Michigan. The JW Westcott is a 45-foot contract mail boat that delivers mail to passing ships and has its own ZIP Code: 48222.

Stamp Fulfillment Services in Kansas City, MO, is located in a limestone cave 150 feet underground. It keeps inventory and employees safe from snow, flooding, winds and tornadoes common in the Midwest.

The Post Office in most need of a bridge is in Point Roberts, WA. It can be reached by car only by driving through British Columbia, Canada. Only a boat or float plane can travel directly there.

The most extraordinary Post Office is in Peach Springs, AZ. The building includes walk-in freezers for food destined for delivery to the bottom of the Grand Canyon by mule train.

The second oldest Post Office location is in Castine, ME, from 1833.

The Hinsdale, NH, Post Office (03451) has been located in the same building since 1816.

The largest U.S. Postal Service retail space is the James A. Farley Post Office in New York, NY (10001), at 393,000 square feet.

The smallest Post Office is located in Ochopee, FL (34141), at 61.3 square feet. The building used to be a storage facility for irrigation pipes of an adjacent tomato farm. It was converted into a Post Office in 1953, after a fire that destroyed a previous Post Office and general store.

The most centered Post Office within the 48 contiguous states is located in Lebanon, KS.

The most centered Post Office within all 50 states is located in Belle Fourche, SD.

The northernmost post office location within the 50 states is in Utqiagvik, AK (formerly Barrow).

The northernmost Post Office location within the 48 contiguous states is in Angle Inlet, MN.

The southernmost Post Office location within the 50 states is located in Naalehu, HI.

The southernmost Post Office location within the 48 contiguous states is located in Key West, FL.

The easternmost Post Office location in the 50 states is in Lubec, ME.

The westernmost Post Office location in the 50 states is in Adak, AK.

The westernmost Post Office location in the 48 contiguous states is in La Push, WA.

The wettest Post Office is at Mt. Waialeale, near the Kapaa Post Office in Hawaii.

The lowest U.S. Post Office is located in Death Valley, CA (92328), at 282 feet below sea level. This is also the driest and hottest Post Office location.

The highest Post Office in the United States is located in Alma, CO (80420), at 10,578 feet above sea level.

The northernmost Post Office location within the 50 United States of America is in Barrow, AK.

Our Sunday best. In 2019, the Postal Service continued to expand Sunday package delivery to meet the shipping needs of customers shopping online.

Priority: YOU! Our priority is and always will be serving you. With free shipping supplies, flat-rate options, $50 worth of free insurance, improved tracking and easy online tools, Priority Mail offers you one of the best values in the shipping business.

Click-N-Ship customers can print shipping labels with postage for Priority Mail Express, Priority Mail, Global Express Guaranteed, Priority Mail International, Priority Mail Express International and First-Class Package International Service. In 2019 Click-N-Ship customers created more than 35.5 million labels, which generated more than $432 million in sales.

In 2019, there were more than 57 million visitors to the Postal Service's mobile site -- m.usps.com -- averaging more than 156,000 visits each day.

Representing select mailing associations, the Postmaster General's Mailers' Technical Advisory Committee works to enhance the value of mail by providing technical advice and recommendations to the Postal Service.

The National Postal Forum is an annual mailing industry conference that 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.

The Military Care Kit contains six Priority Mail Flat Rate Boxes -- two large and four medium -- six address labels, one roll of tape and six customs forms. The kit can be ordered online at usps.com/shop at no charge.

Commercial mailers can use the third ounce of First-Class presort letters to enclose promotional materials like coupons and advertising for their customers with no extra charge by the Postal Service.

With Picture Permit Indicia, commercial mailers can modify the permit imprint indicia on First-Class Mail and USPS Marketing Mail with a corporate logo, brand image or trademark to raise brand awareness and market products and services.

Combine pixels and paper to create Irresistible Mail. By using mobile technology, business customers can increase the impact of their direct mail with customized QR codes and augmented reality to help turn interest into action and create interactive experiences.

Every Door Direct Mail is an online service that uses demographic data to help business mailers target their marketing mailpieces to customers in a select neighborhood, city or ZIP Code. Since 2011, there have been more than 4 million transactions, 20 billion mailpieces and $3.5 billion in revenue.

With Informed Delivery service, you can digitally preview your incoming mail and manage your packages from a computer, tablet or mobile device. More than 20 million customers have enrolled since it was launched in 2017.

Retail giant. The Postal Service has the nation's largest retail network — bigger than McDonald’s, Starbucks and Walmart combined, domestically.

There are 7.1 million daily visits to usps.com.

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. In 2018, the Postal Service picked up 209 million packages.

In 2019, usps.com recorded 2.6 billion visits -- averaging 7.1 million visitors each day. It's one of the most frequently visited government sites.

The Postal Service adds 4,221 addresses to our delivery network every day.

Each day the Postal Service processes and delivers 181.9 million pieces of First-Class Mail.

On average, the Postal Service processes 19.7 million mailpieces each hour, 327,838 each minute and 5,464 each second.

With one of the largest corporate email systems, the Postal Service handles more than 3.5 million legitimate emails a day delivered to more than 222,000 email accounts.

The Postal Service processes 118,152 address changes daily.

The Postal Service issues 269,098 money orders daily.

The Postal Service brings in $890,000 from online stamp and retail sales at The Postal Store at usps.com.

There are 7.1 million daily visits to usps.com.

More than 75,000 letter carriers drive to neighborhoods and then deliver the mail on foot. Nearly 7,000 carriers deliver mail entirely on foot -- the USPS Fleet of Feet. Mail is delivered by bicycle on select routes in Arizona and Florida, reducing emissions and saving fuel.

Each day, $157.3 million is paid to USPS employees in salaries and benefits.

The Postal Service processes and delivers 472.1 million mail pieces each day.

Zero tax dollars used. The Postal Service receives NO tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.

The Postal Service generates, on average, $236 million in revenue per day

Minorities comprise nearly 40 percent of the Postal Service workforce. The strength of the organization lies in its amazingly diverse workforce.

With 2,200 career possibilities, the Postal Service is full of opportunity. From tractor trailer operators, engineers, letter carriers, historians, Postmasters and vehicle maintenance mechanics to the Postmaster General, the strength of our organization lies in its diverse workforce.

The Postal Service has collective bargaining agreements with seven different unions, representing nearly 500,000 employees.

From facilitating the nation’s largest one day food drive, to working with customers to prevent dog bites, to educating customers on consumer protection, to delivering holiday cheer to those in need, the Postal Service supports communities nationwide.

You call that scribble legible? Employees at the Remote Encoding Center in Salt Lake City, UT, are responsible for deciphering terribly handwritten or shoddily printed addresses.

In 1913, an 8-month-old baby in Ohio was mailed by his parents to his grandmother who lived a few miles away.

Every two weeks, the Postal Service pays $2 billion in salaries and benefits.

Louis DeJoy is the 75th Postmaster General of the United States.

More than 1,400 postal-owned buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Postal Service's Judicial Officer Department is a court system that conducts hearings and neutrally resolves a wide variety of disputes involving postal matters. Its independent decisions involve contract disputes, employee debt disputes, mail disputes and mail fraud, among many other areas.

Postal Customer Councils connect business mailers with local Post Office leadership to develop more effective and profitable mailings through training and information sharing. Since the 1960s, PCCs have been the go-to local resource for helping mailers learn, innovate and build their businesses.

Representing select mailing associations, the Postmaster General's Mailers' Technical Advisory Committee works to enhance the value of mail by providing technical advice and recommendations to the Postal Service.

The National Postal Forum is an annual mailing industry conference that 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.

The Postal Service has no official motto. It's not this phrase: "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds."

The Post Office Department was founded in 1775 with Benjamin Franklin as the first Postmaster General. His annual salary was $1,000. Before 1971, the PMG was a Cabinet member.

Each military service and government agency managed its own mail program until 1980 when the Military Postal Service Agency was formed.

The Military Care Kit contains six Priority Mail Flat Rate Boxes -- two large and four medium -- six address labels, one roll of tape and six customs forms. The kit can be ordered online at usps.com/shop at no charge.

The Postal Service and U.S. Postal Inspection Service provide education, tools and information to combat identity theft and mail fraud during the Federal Trade Commission's annual awareness campaign -- National Consumer Protection Week.

Veterans. The Postal Service employs more than 97,000 military veterans and is one of the largest employers of veterans in the country.

With our carriers delivering to homes where there are pets, the Postal Service during National Dog Bite Prevention Week highlights safety initiatives and shares prevention tips to protect employees and customers from dog bites. In 2019, 5,777 employees were attacked by dogs in more than 2,270 cities.

For 107 years, postal employees, charities, and individual and corporate volunteers have helped spread the magic of the holiday season to families in need by answering and "adopting" letters mailed to Santa. In 2019, thousands of people went online to USPSOperationSanta.com, read and adopted more than 12,000 letters to help families and children have a happy holiday when they otherwise might not have.

All heart. The Postal Service is at the core of the $1.6 trillion U.S. mailing industry that employs more than 7.3 million people.

Heroes. Postal employees regularly go beyond the call of duty to protect the lives of customers they serve, including older and disabled customers through the Carrier Alert Program. In fiscal year 2019, the Postal Service recognized 232 heroic employees.

The Pony Express was in operation only from April 3, 1860, to Oct. 26, 1861. It was never part of the U.S. Postal Service.

The Postal Service and the National Association of Letter Carriers hold the largest one-day food drive in the nation. In 2019, 75.7 million pounds of food were collected in more than 10,000 cities and towns in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands. More than 1.7 billion pounds of food have been collected and donated since the campaign began in 1993.

If the amount of point-of-sale receipt tape used annually in Post Offices was stretched end-to-end, it would be nearly 964 million feet and could circle the world more than seven times, or gift wrap the Washington Monument 2,105 times!

The top five usps.com sites in 2019 were USPS Tracking, Informed Delivery, PO Locator, The Postal Store and ZIP Code Lookup.

Click-N-Ship customers can print shipping labels with postage for Priority Mail Express, Priority Mail, Global Express Guaranteed, Priority Mail International, Priority Mail Express International and First-Class Package International Service. In 2019 Click-N-Ship customers created more than 35.5 million labels, which generated more than $432 million in sales.

In 2019, there were more than 57 million visitors to the Postal Service's mobile site -- m.usps.com -- averaging more than 156,000 visits each day.

There's a Post Office on your phone. In 2019 the Postal Service app -- USPS Mobile -- was downloaded more than 2.1 million times from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.

The Postal Service maintains 46,000 point-of-sale terminals and 2,733 self-service retail kiosks nationwide supported by the IT team.

In 2019, the Postal Service received $291.8 million in revenue from 2,733 postal self-service kiosks.

More than 6.6 million passport applications were accepted at Post Offices during 2019.

More than 1,400 postal-owned buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Nearly 36 million address changes were processed in 2019.

There are 31,322 Postal Service-managed retail Post Offices in the United States.

The Postal Service recorded 811.8 million retail customer visits during 2019.

The largest U.S. Postal Service retail space is the James A. Farley Post Office in New York, NY (10001), at 393,000 square feet.

The lowest U.S. Post Office is located in Death Valley, CA (92328), at 282 feet below sea level. This is also the driest and hottest Post Office location.

The highest Post Office in the United States is located in Alma, CO (80420), at 10,578 feet above sea level.

The Postal Service issues 269,098 money orders daily.

There are 7.1 million daily visits to usps.com.

In 2019, usps.com recorded 2.6 billion visits -- averaging 7.1 million visitors each day. It's one of the most frequently visited government sites.

In 2019, stamp and retail sales at The Postal Store on usps.com -- the official online Post Office -- totaled $301 million.

The Postal Service provides a vital public service that is a part of the nation's critical infrastructure. The statute that created the Postal Service begins with the following sentence: “The United States Postal Service shall be operated as a basic and fundamental service provided to the people by the Government of the United States, authorized by the Constitution, created by an Act of Congress, and supported by the people.” 39 U.S.C. §101(a).

The Postal Service has collective bargaining agreements with seven different unions, representing nearly 500,000 employees.

If the more than 141,900 blue collection boxes currently in use by the Postal Service were placed side-by-side, they would stretch for 58 miles.

The Postal Service purchased nearly 579,000 tires in 2019. If they were stacked end-to-end, they would be 244 miles long -- the distance between Dallas and Houston, TX.

The Postal Service ordered more than 750 million rubber bands in 2019, totaling about 41,096 miles of rubber bands that could wrap around Earth 1.7 times!

In 2019, the Postal Service received $291.8 million in revenue from 2,733 postal self-service kiosks.

Every two weeks, the Postal Service pays $2 billion in salaries and benefits.

Forty-eight percent of the world's mail volume is handled by the Postal Service.

Louis DeJoy is the 75th Postmaster General of the United States.

More than 6.6 million passport applications were accepted at Post Offices during 2019.

If it were a private sector company, the Postal Service would rank 44th in the 2019 Fortune 500. In the 2019 Global Fortune 500 list, we ranked 136th.

With one of the largest corporate email systems, the Postal Service handles more than 3.5 million legitimate emails a day delivered to more than 222,000 email accounts.

The Postal Service has no official motto. It's not this phrase: "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds."

There are nearly 42,000 ZIP Codes in the country.

During FY 2019, USPS employees traveled 1.34 billion miles to deliver your mail, equivalent to 53,640 laps around Earth, 5,305 trips to the moon or about 15 trips to the sun. *Based on the average moon and sun distance.

The Military Postal Service provides service in 67 countries. Diplomatic Mail service is provided in 113 countries. There are 678 land-based and 389 onboard-ship Military Post Offices. There are 140 Diplomatic Post Offices. There are 1,069 ZIP Codes within the Military and Diplomatic Postal Service around the world.

The Postal Service had $71.1 billion in operating revenue in 2019

There were 496,934 career employees in 2019. The number of non-career employees was 136,174.

Total mail volume in 2019 was 142.6 billion.

The Postal Service prides itself on going the last mile to deliver the mail. We served 160 million delivery points nationwide in 2019 with 1.4 million new delivery points added to the network.

Nearly 36 million address changes were processed in 2019.

There are 31,322 Postal Service-managed retail Post Offices in the United States.

The Postal Service recorded 811.8 million retail customer visits during 2019.

In 2019, retail revenue totaled $12.7 billion.

All heart. The Postal Service is at the core of the $1.6 trillion U.S. mailing industry that employs more than 7.3 million people.

Zero tax dollars used. The Postal Service receives NO tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.

In 2019, usps.com recorded 2.6 billion visits -- averaging 7.1 million visitors each day. It's one of the most frequently visited government sites.

In 2019, stamp and retail sales at The Postal Store on usps.com -- the official online Post Office -- totaled $301 million.

In 2019, the Postal Service released several stamps that highlighted printing technologies that were new to the production of our stamps, including the Frozen Treats stamps -- the first "scratch and sniff" stamp.

People once had to pay for the postage on the letters they received. That resulted in a lot of mail being returned because the recipient didn't want to spend the money. Prepaid postage stamps, introduced in 1847, solved this problem.

The first woman to appear on a U.S. postage stamp was Queen Isabella in 1893. The first American woman honored on stamp was Martha Washington in 1902. The first Native American featured on a stamp was Pocahontas in 1907. The first African American featured on a stamp was Booker T. Washington in 1940.

Stick the landing! In 1992, pressure sensitive self-adhesive stamps rolled out nationally. By 2005, 98 percent of all stamps were this type.

The first Forever stamp, issued in 2007, was an image of the Liberty Bell. Forever stamps are purchased at the current First-Class Mail postage price and remain valid for full postage no matter how prices change.

Our first "discretionary" semipostal stamp has raised nearly $1 million for research into a cure for Alzheimer's disease.

In 2019, 16.5 billion U.S. postage stamps were printed, and $658 million in stamp and stamp product orders were received by mail, telephone at 1-800-STAMP-24 and online at usps.com/stamps.

Out of this world! A postage stamp was inside the New Horizons spacecraft that made a flyby of Pluto in July 2015. That's the farthest distance traveled by a postage stamp - more than 3 billion miles. So noted by the Guinness World Records.

Veterans. The Postal Service employs more than 97,000 military veterans and is one of the largest employers of veterans in the country.

Affordability. For 55 cents, anyone can send a letter, regardless of geographic location, to anywhere in the United States.

The Breast Cancer Research semipostal stamp has raised more than $90 million for breast cancer research since 1998. More than 1.6 billion stamps have been sold.

In 2019, the Postal Service recycled 177,612 tons of paper, 39,792 tons of cardboard and 5,537 tons of plastic.

We help our customers reduce waste, increase recycling and improve their carbon footprint through our BlueEarth programs.

The Postal Service has a solar power generation system at its Los Angeles mail processing facility consisting of 38,000 solar panels. This expands our use of alternative energy and makes the USPS facility one of the largest buildings generating electricity through solar energy in the city.

The Postal Service has a goal to reduce energy used per square foot of building space 25 percent by 2025. From 2015 to 2018, energy was reduced 1.5 percent. Additional improvements are planned.

Greener than you think. Free Priority Mail boxes meet Sustainable Forestry initiative and Forest Stewardship Council certification standards. This means the paper for those boxes comes from well-managed forests. In addition, the boxes include at least 30-percent recycled content.

More than 75,000 letter carriers drive to neighborhoods and then deliver the mail on foot. Nearly 7,000 carriers deliver mail entirely on foot -- the USPS Fleet of Feet. Mail is delivered by bicycle on select routes in Arizona and Florida, reducing emissions and saving fuel.

The Postal Service operates a fleet of 40,000 alternative fuel-capable vehicles, most of which are equipped to use ethanol. There are electric, hybrid, compressed natural gas and liquid propane gas vehicles in the fleet as well. The Postal Service has 100 hybrid 2-ton vehicles. Fifty are electric hybrid and fifty are hydraulic hybrid.

From facilitating the nation’s largest one day food drive, to working with customers to prevent dog bites, to educating customers on consumer protection, to delivering holiday cheer to those in need, the Postal Service supports communities nationwide.

Veterans. The Postal Service employs more than 97,000 military veterans and is one of the largest employers of veterans in the country.

All heart. The Postal Service is at the core of the $1.6 trillion U.S. mailing industry that employs more than 7.3 million people.

Heroes. Postal employees regularly go beyond the call of duty to protect the lives of customers they serve, including older and disabled customers through the Carrier Alert Program. In fiscal year 2019, the Postal Service recognized 232 heroic employees.

Greener than you think. Free Priority Mail boxes meet Sustainable Forestry initiative and Forest Stewardship Council certification standards. This means the paper for those boxes comes from well-managed forests. In addition, the boxes include at least 30-percent recycled content.

Retail giant. The Postal Service has the nation's largest retail network — bigger than McDonald’s, Starbucks and Walmart combined, domestically.

Global business. The Postal Service processes and delivers 48 percent of the world's mail and is constantly innovating to make customer experiences better.

Vehicles. The Postal Service has more than 228,000 vehicles, one of the largest civilian fleets in the world. New next-generation vehicles will have improved ergonomics, safety features, fuel efficiency and design flexibility.

Competition and collaboration. The Postal Service both competes and collaborates with the private sector. UPS and FedEx pay the Postal Service to deliver hundreds of millions of their ground packages, and USPS pays UPS and FedEx for air transportation.

Affordability. For 55 cents, anyone can send a letter, regardless of geographic location, to anywhere in the United States.

Dependable. The Postal Service is the only organization in the country that has the resources, network infrastructure and logistical capability to regularly deliver to every residential and business address in the nation.

Security. U.S. Mail is protected by more than 200 federal laws enforced by the Postal Inspection Service, one of the nation's oldest law enforcement agencies.

And most importantly...

Zero tax dollars used. The Postal Service receives NO tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.