postal employees
Heads of industry. Hollywood legends. Sports heroes. Singers. Painters. Writers. And a couple presidents. All were postal employees before they became household names! Thirteen have even been featured on stamps.
CREATIVE
© is for creative. The Postal Service has more than 500 copyright registrations, many of them to protect artwork on postage stamps.
in short-paid revenue
The Automated Package Verification (APV) program automates the detection and collection of postage due for mail pieces with insufficient postage using automated package processing equipment. The APV program collected $114.2 million in short-paid revenue in 2023.
of the world's mail
Forty-four percent of the world's mail volume is processed and delivered by the U.S. Postal Service.
passport applications
The Postal Service accepted 8.6 million passport applications in 2023.
Postal Service revenue from passport applications in 2023 was $387.2 million.
MPSA formed
The Military Postal Service Agency was formed in 1980, consolidating the postal operations of the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. The Department of Defense designated the Secretary of the Army as the single military mail manager.
Military and Diplomatic Mail in brief.
career employees
There were 525,469 career employees in 2023. The number of non-career employees was 115,000.
shipping and package volume
In 2023, the Postal Service's shipping and package volume was 7.1 billion.
marketing mail volume
In 2023, Marketing Mail volume was 59.4 billion pieces.
Post Offices
There are 31,123 Postal Service-managed retail offices in the United States. Including contract offices, there are 33,904 offices.
customer visits
The Postal Service had 665.3 million customer visits in 2023.
retail revenue
In 2023, Postal Service retail revenue totaled $11.6 billion.
alternate access revenue
In 2023, the Postal Service received $2 billion in revenue from alternate access locations. Alternate access refers to locations such as ATMs, grocery stores, convenience stores, etc, where postage and postage-related items can be purchased.
percent
In 2023, 17.5 percent of Postal Service retail revenue came from alternate access locations. Alternate access locations refer to ATMs, grocery and convenience stores, etc, where postage and postage-related items can be purchased.
postal vehicles
The Postal Service has more than 246,503 vehicles, one of the largest civilian fleets in the world.
handheld scanners
The Postal Service communications network supports and maintains more than 157,681 workstations, 41,000 server computers, 52,689 printers, 27,909 smartphones, 640 tablets and 443,700 handheld scanners.
The Postal Service communications network contains more than 249,000 provisioned subnets that connect more than 2 million devices
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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