According to the Postal Facts 2017, they have over 508,000 career employees, over 227,000 vehicles and they processed and delivered almost 154,000,000,000 pieces of mail. That’s right…almost 154 BILLION PIECES OF DIRECT MAIL!

Their computer network is one of the world’s largest networks. There are nearly 32,000 facilities and they receive more than 12,000,000 legitimate emails a day delivered to more than 214,000 email accounts. Their communications network supports and maintains more than 145,000 desktop computers, 23,000 notebook computers, 81,000 printers, 12,500 smart-phones, 400,000 phone lines and 310,000 hand-held scanners.

They have 35 petabytes of storage capacity (which is equivalent to playing more than 88,700 years of songs on am MP3 player with no repeats). There are nearly 1,450,000 email messages blocked monthly due to viruses and more than 210,000 blocked due to content.

More than 381,000,000 credit and debit card transactions are processed annually through their IT systems in Post Offices and through www.usps.com. They also had 10,000,000,000 page views on www.usps.com.

After seeing those numbers, have you ever wondered what a day in the life of the U.S. Postal Service is like? Below are some average numbers for just ONE day in the life of the U.S. Postal Service according to their“Just one day in the life of the U.S. Postal Service by the numbers” post.

  • 235.2 million — revenue received in dollars
  • 160.2 million  — dollars paid to postal employees in salaries and benefits
  • 506.4 million  — number of mailpieces processed and delivered each day
  • 21.1 million — average number of mailpieces processed each hour
  • 351,656 — average number of mailpieces processed each minute
  • 5,861 — average number of mailpieces processed each second
  • 200.4 million  — pieces of First-Class Mail processed and delivered
  • 7,131 —  number of letter carriers who deliver mail entirely on foot — The USPS Fleet of Feet
  • 54,490 — number of address changes processed
  • 3,748 — number of addresses added to our delivery network
  • 4.6 million — number of people who visit usps.com
  • $2.7 million —  dollar amount of online stamp and retail sales at usps.com
  • 1.5 million — number of Click-N-Ship labels printed
  • 297,004  — number of money orders issued
  • 0 — tax dollars received for operating the Postal Service

Here is a look at their Fiscal Year 2016 Data

  • 71.4 billion — 2016 operating revenue
  • 153.9 billion — number of mail pieces processed and delivered
  • 47 — percent of the world’s mail volume handled by the Postal Service
  • 1.9 billion — dollar amount paid every two weeks in salaries and benefits
  • 508,908** — number of career employees
  • 130,881** — number of non-career employees
  • 31,585 — number of Postal Service-managed retail offices
  • 227,896 — number of vehicles — one of the largest civilian fleets in the world
  • 16.6 million — number of address changes processed
  • 13.5 billion — total retail revenue
  • 877.4 million — total number of retail customer visits
  • 24 — percent of retail revenue from alternative access channels
  • 1.7 billion — total number of visits to usps.com
  • 280 million — total Postal Store revenue on usps.com
  • 564 million — number of Click-N-Ship labels printed
  • $1.3 billion — total revenue, in dollars, from postage on Click-N-Ship labels
  • 90.3 million — number of money orders issued
  • 5,989,439 — number of passport applications accepted at post offices
  • $149.7 million — total revenue, in dollars, from passport applications
  • $440.2 million — amount in revenue from 2,835 postal Self-Service Kiosks
  • 1.1 million — number of new delivery points added to the network in 2016
  • 156.1 million — total number of delivery points nationwide
  • 74 — Megan J. Brennan, 74th Postmaster General
  • 0 — tax dollars received for operating the Postal Service
*all information based on Fiscal Year 2016 data, unless otherwise noted
**as of Sep. 30, 2016

Visit www.usps.com for more information.