Blue collection boxes

USPS
124,000

blue collection boxes

Iconically ours. There are approximately 124,000 iconic blue collection boxes in use on street corners across the nation.

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About those iconic blue boxes…

They weren’t always blue. Before 1970, they were green, then red, then white, then green again, and finally — beginning in 1955 — red, white and blue.

Mobile Delivery Devices

285,000

Mobile Delivery Devices

Mobile Delivery Devices (MDDs) provide real-time scanning for daily delivery operations. There are more than 285,000 MDDs in use nationwide.

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