The United States Postal Service does all of the following, and more.
- Delivers 213 billion pieces of mail to more than 146 million homes, businesses and post office boxes in virtually every state, city and town in the country, including Puerto Rico, Guam, the American Virgin Islands and American Samoa.
- Handles more than 44 percent of the world’s card and letter mail volume – delivering more mail to more addresses and to a larger geographic area than any other postal service in the world.
- In 2005, 400 employees were recognized as heroes – by risking their own lives to save the lives of the customers they serve.
- Employees pledged nearly $39 million in 2005 to their favorite charities through the Combined Federal Campaign.
- As of January 2007, The Breast Cancer Research stamp has raised $53 million.
- The Heroes semipostal stamp, sold from June 2002 through December 2004, raised $10.6 million to assist families of emergency relief personnel killed or permanently disabled in the line of duty on 9/11/01.
- As of January 2006, The Stop Family Violence stamp raised $1.8 million to help victims of these tragedies.
- Generates more than $8.5 million in revenue through recycling and waste prevention programs.
- Recycles 1 million tons of wastepaper, cardboard, plastics, cans and other materials annually.
- Operates the world’s largest fleet of alternative fuel vehicles – more than 30,000 of them – that use clean fuels such as ethanol and electricity.
- Uses recycled products to produce postage stamps and mailing products.