Did You Know...

• We handle 40% of the world's mail volume. Japan, the second largest carrier of cards and letters, handles 8%.

• We deliver more mail in one day than FedEx does in a year and more mail in 3 days than UPS does in a year.

• In 1994, we processed 177 billion pieces of mail, about 580 million pieces a day. The national delivery network now reaches 125 million addresses.

• Our $3.2 billion transportation network consists of more than 200,000 vehicles, and contract space on 22-25,000 of the daily 56,000 commercial flights available.

• We maintain one of the nation's largest natural gas delivery fleets with more than 2,700 vehicles and will convert an additional 2,000 in 1995.

• We own 6,865 buildings with 168 million sq. ft. and lease 27,437 buildings with 89 million sq. ft. If we relocated all of this space into one city, it would fill all of Chicago's office and industrial space.

• As of December 1, 1994, the Japanese paid 80 cents and the Germans 64 cents for First-Class Mail. America's 32 cents for First-Class Mail is the lowest in the industrialized world.

• Since 1982, we have depended exclusively on postage and fees rather than taxpayer revenue for our operations.

• If we were a private company, we would be the 11th largest business in the US, with total revenues of $49 billion in 1994... bigger than Coca-Cola, Xerox, and Eastman Kodak - combined. Our annual budget is roughly 1 % of the US economy.

• As the nation's largest civilian employer, with 729,000 career employees, we employ more workers on American soil than General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler - combined. We staff almost 40,000 post offices and retail units, three times as many as Texaco has gas stations.

• About one out of every 170 working Americans is employed by the United States Postal Service.

• With successful automation programs, US Postal employees are 500% more productive than those in Germany,250% more productive than those in France and the United Kingdom, and 33% more productive than in Japan.

• We serve 8 million small business customers. In FY 1994,79.4% of all Postal Service contract awards went to small businesses. Of the total $4.6 billion in contracts awarded, more than $2.1 billion went to small businesses.

• USPS is a vital partner of American commerce in utilizing the world's largest and most sophisticated cash transaction system through its more than 40,000 retail locations. Average daily postal receipts totaling $300 million are deposited into 7,500 bank accounts at more than 5,000 commercial banks.

• The cost of gasoline for the Postal Service rises more than $1 million when the price goes up one cent. In FY 1994, we used 105 million gallons of fuel at a cost of $102 million for more than 1 billion miles.

Mail is Big Business

Each of the Postal Service's seven product lines would quality as a Fortune 200 company on its own:

• Correspondence & transactions -- a $24.5 billion business

• Business advertising -- a $12.7 billion business

• Expedited delivery -- a $2.9 billion business

• Standard package delivery -- a $2 billion business

• International mail -- a $1.4 billion business

• Publications delivery -- a $1.7 billion business

• Retail -- a $3 billion business

Achieving Efficiency

• The Postal Service has invested about $2.6 billion since 1987 for capital equipment to automate mail processing and delivery point sequencing operations.

• Since 1991, about 4,000 optical character readers, delivery bar code sorters and other pieces of equipment have been installed at postal facilities throughout the country.

• By the end of 1997, approximately 12,000 pieces of automated sorting equipment will be in place.

• Today's self-supported USPS delivers nearly twice as much mail to more than 50 million more customers with just 10 percent more employees than it did as the taxpayer subsidized Post Office Department in 1970.

Meeting Changing Needs

• The Postal Service is working with other organizations to evaluate services such as electronic certification, authentication, encryption, "electronic postmarks," and other value-added services.

• Business and Courtesy Reply Card scanning is a service which will read customer information from reply cards at the originating post office. The data will be electronically transmitted to the business, enabling information processing within hours.

• As part of Vice President Al Gore's call to "reinvent government," the Postal Service is working with federal, state, and local entities to develop an interactive "citizens kiosk" that provides a single point of contact for government service. The kiosks will ensure fast, easy, and universal access for all people.

Mail Volume - Fiscal Year 1994 9/30/93 - 9/30/94

Mail Class 	      Volume      % of Total   Chg. from FY '92
First-Class        94.3  billion    53.3%       up    2.4%
Second-Class       10.2  billion     5.7%       down  0.8%
Third-Class        69.4  bilIion    39.2%       up    5.5%
Fourth-Class      870    million     0.5%       up   17.0%
International     860    million     0.5%       down  5.1%
All other           1.3  billion     0.7%       up   13.2%
Total             177.07 billion                up    3.4%

Total Career Employees:....................728,944
Headquarters.................................1,701
Headquarters Field Support Units ............4,117
Area Offices.................................1,262
Discontinued operations ........................85
Inspection Service (Field) ..................4,308
Postmasters.................................26,803
Supervisors.................................34,616
Prof./Admin./Tech...........................10,924
Clerks.....................................265,294
Motor Vehicle Operators......................7,577
Mail Handlers...............................54,859
Rural Carriers .............................45,049
Special Delivery Messengers..................1,574
Bldg. and Equip. Maint......................36,767
Vehicle Maintenance .........................4,689
Nurses.........................................181
City Delivery Carriers.....................229,138

Noncareer Employees:
 Casuals....................................25,674
 Nonbargaining Temporary.......................613
 Substitute Rural Carriers .................46,589
 Postmaster Relief and Leave Replacements ..12,683
 Transitional Employees ....................37,542

Post Offices, Stations, and Branches
Post Offices................................28,657
Classified Stations and Branches.............5,682
Contract Stations and Branches...............3,424
Community Post Offices ......................1,609
Total.......................................39,372

Possible Deliveries
Rural ........................................23.6 million
City..........................................80.0 million
Post Office Boxes ............................20.2 million
Highway Contract Routes with Box Delivery .....1.5 million
Total........................................125.3 million