Prodigious Processing
he Postal Service, with nearly 800,000 employees, is the largest civilian employer in the country. The agency handles 41 percent of the world's mail volume-630 million pieces every day. The next largest postal handler is Japan, which processes 6 percent of the world's mail. If it were a private company, the Postal Service would be the 10th largest in the country. Take a look at the numbers:
- Pieces of First Class mail delivered each year:
107 billion - Addresses delivered to daily: 130 million
- Post office boxes: 18 million
- Post offices: 38,019
- Customers doing business at post offices each day:
7 million - Miles driven to move the mail each year:1.1 billion
- Vehicles used to move and deliver mail:192,904
- Processing plants to ship and sort mail: 331
- Buildings occupied: 34, 588
- Years in business: 225
Source: U.S. Postal Service