The USPS is the most Efficienct, Cheapest, fastest Postal Service on the planet.. in most other countries its 1-2 dollars just to mail a letter.. They provide excellent service at a reasonable price.
they also must break even every year any extra money they make goes to the General fund..
they also must break even every year any extra money they make goes to the General fund..
You my friend are misinformed... The postal service has not recieved any tax dollars since the Postal Reorganization act in the early 90s.. can you please provide some statistics to back up your false claims?
Here are some for you:
We deliver to every home and business in the United States. Every American has access to our services and pays the same postage regardless of where they live or work. We …
- Process and deliver more than 212 billion pieces of mail — letters, cards, ads, bills, payments and packages — every year. Which equates to:
- 700 million pieces per day
- 29 million pieces per hour
- 486,000 pieces per minute
- 8,000 pieces per second
- Deliver mail to more than 300 million people at 148 million homes, businesses and PO Boxes in every state, city and town, and in Puerto Rico, Guam, the American Virgin Islands and American Samoa.
- Add 1.8 million new addresses each year to our delivery network — equivalent to the number of addresses in a city the size of Chicago.
- Have annual operating revenue of nearly $75 billion.
- Are the second-largest employer in the United States with nearly 685,000 career employees.
- Pay $2.1 billion in employee salaries and benefits every two weeks.
- Handle 46 percent of the world's card and letter mail volume — delivering more mail to more addresses in a larger geographical area than any other post in the world.
- Do not receive tax dollars for operations. We are a self-supporting agency, using the revenue from the sale of postage and products to pay expenses.
- We move mail using planes, trains, trucks, cars, boats, ferries, helicopters, bicycles, hovercrafts, subways and even mules.
- We operate the largest civilian vehicle fleet in the world with more than 219,000 vehicles driving more than 1.2 billion miles each year and using nearly 121 million gallons of fuel.
- When fuel costs increase one penny, our costs increase over $8 million annually.
- We process and deliver 25.6 billion pounds of mail in 2007 — about 85 million pounds per day.
- We handled more than 832 million pieces of international mail in 2007 — more than 268 million pounds.
- About 14 percent of the nation’s population moves every year, generating more than 46 million address changes.
- We forward more than 2 billion pieces of mail a year at no cost to the customer.
It's today, and . . .
The Postal Service will:
Deliver
316 million pieces of First-Class Mail
2.96 million pieces of Priority Mail
181 thousand pieces of Express Mail
2.8 million pieces of International Mail
46 thousand cards and letters coming into the United States from other countries
700 million total pieces of mail
about 85 million pounds of mail
to 119 million residences, 9 million businesses and 20 million PO boxes
Drive nearly 4.1 million miles in our fleet of trucks
Spend nearly $1 million on over 400,000 gallons of fuel for the fleet of trucks
Add 6,000 new delivery points to our nationwide network
Process 152,000 changes of address
Forward more than 6.6 billion pieces of mail at no charge to the customer
Serve 9 million customers at nearly 37,000 retail locations
Accept nearly 20,000 passport applications
Cancel 50 million postage stamps on automation equipment
Issue more than 500,000 money orders
Have one million visitors on usps.com
Process more than 230,000 transactions at Automated Postal Centers
Perform at least one heroic act by saving a customer's life, home, or both.
Receive no tax dollars
The Postal Service will:
Deliver
316 million pieces of First-Class Mail
2.96 million pieces of Priority Mail
181 thousand pieces of Express Mail
2.8 million pieces of International Mail
46 thousand cards and letters coming into the United States from other countries
700 million total pieces of mail
about 85 million pounds of mail
to 119 million residences, 9 million businesses and 20 million PO boxes
Drive nearly 4.1 million miles in our fleet of trucks
Spend nearly $1 million on over 400,000 gallons of fuel for the fleet of trucks
Add 6,000 new delivery points to our nationwide network
Process 152,000 changes of address
Forward more than 6.6 billion pieces of mail at no charge to the customer
Serve 9 million customers at nearly 37,000 retail locations
Accept nearly 20,000 passport applications
Cancel 50 million postage stamps on automation equipment
Issue more than 500,000 money orders
Have one million visitors on usps.com
Process more than 230,000 transactions at Automated Postal Centers
Perform at least one heroic act by saving a customer's life, home, or both.
Receive no tax dollars
coming from the guy who profits off the inefficient wasteful process of income tax filing
did I write the tax code? did I ever endorse the present tax system? it's here, and it ain't going away. The tax system is a political pawn.
If we did not have the current tax system, I would have a larger commercial clientele, simply roll with the punches dude.
