As a full-service mailing house, Holland Litho deals with the USPS every day. Even with the volume of mail we manage locally, we found the national statistics astounding!
Statistics are always fun, here are the numbers for a single day in the USPS:
235.2 million — revenue received in dollars
160.2 million — dollars paid to postal employees in salaries and benefits
506.4 million — number of mailpieces processed and delivered each day
21.1 million — average number of mailpieces processed each hour
351,656 — average number of mailpieces processed each minute
5,861 — average number of mailpieces processed each second
200.4 million — pieces of First-Class Mail processed and delivered
7,131 — number of letter carriers who deliver mail entirely on foot — The USPS Fleet of Feet
54,490 — number of address changes processed
3,748 — number of addresses added to our delivery network
4.6 million — number of people who visit usps.com
$2.7 million — dollar amount of online stamp and retail sales at usps.com
1.5 million — number of Click-N-Ship labels printed
297,004 — number of money orders issued
0 — tax dollars received for operating the Postal Service
