U.S. Postal Service--Summary statistics


Item	1980	1990	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999

Offices, stations, and branches	39,486	40,067	39,149	38,212	38,019	38,159	38,169
Number of post offices	30,326	28,959	28,392	28,189	28,060	27,952	27,893
Number of stations and branches	9,160	11,108	10,757	10,023	9,959	10,207	10,276

Pieces of mail handled (mil.)	106,311	166,301	180,734	183,440	190,888	196,905	201,576
Domestic ¹	105,348	165,503	179,933	182,386	189,881	195,961	200,613
First class ²	60,276	89,270	96,296	98,216	99,660	100,434	101,937
Express Mail	17	59	57	58	64	66	69
Priority Mail	248	518	869	937	1,068	1,174	1,190
Periodicals (formerly 2d class)	10,220	10,680	10,194	10,126	10,411	10,317	10,274
Standard A (formerly 3d class)	30,381	63,725	71,112	71,686	77,254	82,508	85,662
Standard B (formerly 4th class)	633	663	936	949	988	1,023	1,043
Mailgram	39	14	5	4	5	4	4
U.S. Postal Service	(NA)	538	412	360	377	380	382
Free for the blind	28	35	52	50	53	53	53
International surface	450	166	106	105	97	96	103
International air	513	632	696	949	910	848	860

Employees, total (1,000)	667	843	875	886	893	905	906
Career	643	761	753	761	765	792	798
Headquarters	3	2	2	2	2	2	2
Headquarters support	(NA)	6	4	4	4	4	4
Inspection Service	5	4	4	4	4	4	4
Inspector General	(X)	(X)	(X)	(X)	(Z)	(Z)	(Z)
Field Career	635	747	745	748	755	781	786
Postmasters	29	27	27	26	26	26	26
Supervisors/managers	36	43	35	35	36	37	39
Professional, administrative, and technical	5	10	11	11	11	12	11
Clerks	263	290	274	277	281	294	292
Mail handlers	37	51	57	58	59	62	62
City carriers	187	236	240	238	234	241	242
Motor vehicle operators	6	7	8	8	9	9	9
Rural carriers	33	42	46	48	50	52	55
Special delivery messengers	3	2	2	1	1	(X)	(X)
Building and equipment maintenance	27	33	38	39	40	41	42
Vehicle maintenance	5	5	5	5	6	6	6
Other ³	4	1	2	2	2	2	2
Noncareer	25	83	122	125	128	113	108
Casuals	5	27	26	25	33	26	25
Transitionals	(X)	(X)	32	33	27	17	12
Rural substitutes	20	43	50	54	55	56	57
Relief/Leave replacements	(X)	12	13	13	13	13	12
Nonbargaining temporary	(X)	(Z)	1	1	1	1	1

Compensation and employee benefits (mil. dol.)	16,541	34,214	41,931	42,676	43,835	45,588	47,322
Avg. salary per employee (dol.) ⁴	24,799	37,570	45,001	44,718	48,793	50,117	48,111
Pieces of mail per employee, (1,000)	159	197	207	207	214	218	222

Total revenue (mil. dol.)⁵	19,253	40,074	54,509	56,544	58,331	60,116	62,755
Operating postal revenue	17,143	39,201	54,176	56,309	58,133	60,005	62,655
Mail revenue ⁶	16,377	37,892	52,490	54,538	56,267	58,033	60,418
First class mail	10,146	24,023	31,955	33,117	33,398	33,861	34,933
Priority mail ⁷	612	1,555	3,075	3,322	3,857	4,187	4,533
Express mail ⁸	184	630	711	737	825	855	942
Mailgram	15	8	2	2	2	2	2
Periodicals (formerly 2d class)	863	1,509	1,972	2,014	2,068	2,072	2,115
Standard mail A (formerly 3d class)	2,412	8,082	11,792	12,175	12,876	13,702	14,436
Standard mail B (formerly 4th class)	805	919	1,525	1,524	1,628	1,754	1,829
International surface	154	222	205	199	192	184	194
International air	442	941	1,254	1,450	1,423	1,416	1,434

Service revenue	765	1,310	1,687	1,771	1,866	1,972	2,237
Registry ⁹	157	174	118	113	95	89	95
Certified ⁹	120	310	560	559	343	386	377
Insurance ⁹	55	47	52	49	61	73	92
Collection-on-delivery	21	26	21	21	22	18	20
Special delivery ¹⁰	73	6	3	4	1	(X)	(X)
Money orders	95	155	196	221	212	210	228
Other ⁹	244	592	737	803	1,131	1,197	1,425

Operating expenses (mil. dol.) ¹¹	19,413	40,490	50,730	53,113	54,873	57,778	60,631

NA Not available. X Not applicable. Z Fewer than 500.
1 Data for 1980 includes penalty and franked mail, not shown separately.
2 Items mailed at 1st class rates and weighing 11 ounces or less.
3 Includes discontinued operations, area offices, and nurses.
4 For career bargaining unit employees. Includes fringe benefits.
5 Net revenues after refunds of postage. Includes operating reimbursements, stamped envelope purchases, indemnity claims, and miscellaneous revenue and expenditure offsets. Shown in year which gave rise to the earnings.
6 For 1980, includes penalty and franked mail, not shown separately.Later years have that mail distributed into the appropriate class.
7 Provides 2 to 3 day delivery service.
8 Overnight delivery of packages weighing up to 70 pounds.
9 Beginning 1997, return receipt revenue broken out from reqistry, certified, andinsurance and included in "other".
10 Special delivery discontinued June 8, 1997.
11 Shown in year in which obligation was incurred.

Source: U.S. Postal Service, Annual Report of the Postmaster General andComprehensive Statement on Postal Operations, annual; andunpublished data.

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936. U.S. Postal Service--Summary