History
He was the First Postmaster General
Benjamin Franklin
If the Postal Service were in the private sector it would rank 44th on the 2019 edition of what well known list
The Fortune 500 List. USPS would be between Intel and MetLife
This law enforcement agency protects and enforces the more than 200 federal laws creating security for US mail
The Postal Inspection Service
There are this many post offices run by the Postal Service
31,000 post offices
There are over 200 miles of this type of robotic assistance within postal facilities
conveyor belts
The year the United States Post Office began
1775
This is the most unusual delivery method used by USPS
Mule train. The mules carry mail, food and supplies down an 8-mile trail to the Havasupai Indians at the bottom of the Grand Canyon
Employees at the Remote Encoding Center in Salt Lake City, UT are responsible for this
Deciphering terribly handwritten or shoddily printed addresses
There are this many employees at USPS *closest answer within the 20,000 range will be accepted if no one guesses exact*
633,000
The is the name of the initiative that allows customers to print shipping labels with postage online
Click-N-Ship
The current Postmaster General
Megan J. Brennan, she is also the first female Postmaster General.
The post office located in this city is 282 feet below sea level, making it the "lowest" post office location
Death Valley, CA
The USPS is the largest employer of who in the country
Of veterans in the country, employing more than 100,000 veterans.
The Postal Service processes this many mail pieces in a day
471 million mail pieces, or 48% of the worlds mail volume.
This is the free service that allows users to digitally preview their incoming mail and manage their packages from a computer, tablet or mobile device. More than 15 million customers have enrolled in it since it launched in 2017.
Informed delivery
In 1963 this five digit code was introduced by the USPS
the Zip Code (Zone Improvement Plan)
These two states have select routes deliver mail by bicycle.
Arizona and Florida
This USPS mail processing facility has a solar power generation system consisting of 31,000 solar panels and makes the Postal Service facility one of the largest buildings generating electricity through solar energy in the city
The Los Angeles Processing Facility
The amount of Tax dollars used by USPS
Zero. The Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.
End-to-end mail stream visibility is possible with a unique [this], which identifies individual pieces of mail, trays, sacks and containers to track them through the processing system from induction to delivery.
Intelligent Mail barcode (IMB)
The USPS Motto reads:
There is no official motto! The commonly affiliated phrase “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” is not the official motto!
The post office located in this city is 10,578 feet above sea level, making it the highest post office location
Alma, CO
The Postal Service offers this type of care kit that can ship directly to necessary locations and can be ordered at no charge.
a Military Care Kit to ship directly to APO, FPO and DPO locations. The kit contains Priority Mail Flat Rate Boxes, address labels, tape and customs forms, and can be ordered at no charge.
The U.S. Postal Service brought in this amount in operating revenue in FY19
The US postal service saw $71 billion in revenue in FY19.
The USPS is the world leader in this technology, allowing machines to read nearly 98 percent of all hand-addressed letters and 99.5 percent of machine-printed mail.
Optical character recognition (OCR) technology