American Industry Overview: United States Postal Service
Industry Snapshot
The U.S. Postal Service is one of the largest organizations in the world. In 2009, it had more than 7,663,000 employees and revenues of $74.9 billion. In fiscal 2009 it handled more than 203 billion pieces of mail through an extremely complicated system of carefully coordinated activities. In addition to the national headquarters in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Postal Service consisted of regional and field division offices that together supervised 36,400 post offices, branches, stations, and community post offices. Also known as USPS, the organization delivered to 150 million U.S. addresses...