USPS Rural Delivery Factoids

The Postal Service established free delivery of mail to rural areas in 1896.
The longest rural mail route in the United States is 173 miles in Lamont, Oklahoma, serving 158 regular mailboxes.
The shortest rural mail route in the United States is 1.9 miles in Henderson, Nevada, serving 695 centralized boxes.
The average rural mail route is 45 miles long and serves 493 mailboxes.
More than 20,000 rural routes nationwide now have postal vehicles assigned to them instead of a rural carrier’s own private car or truck.

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