Mission

The United States Postal Service provides mail processing and delivery services to individuals and businesses within the United States.

The Postal Service was created as an independent establishment of the executive branch by the Postal Reorganization Act (39 U.S.C. 101 et seq.), approved August 12, 1970. The present United States Postal Service commenced operations on July 1, 1971.

The Postal Service has approximately 705,000 career employees and handles about 212 billion pieces of mail annually. The chief executive officer of the Postal Service, the Postmaster General, is appointed by the nine Governors of the Postal Service, who are appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Governors and the Postmaster General appoint the Deputy Postmaster General, and these 11 people constitute the Board of Governors.

In addition to the national headquarters, there are area and district offices supervising more than 37,000 post offices, branches, stations, and community post offices throughout the United States.

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Outlays (in millions of dollars)

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Year Outlay Year Outlay Year Outlay
1962 797 1991 1,828 2020 -2,346
1963 770 1992 1,170 2021 -2,679
1964 578 1993 1,602 2022 2,636
1965 805 1994 1,233 2023 5,819
1966 888 1995 -1,839 2024 1,225*
1967 1,141 1996 -58 2025 1,020*
1968 1,080 1997 77 2026 1,604*
1969 920 1998 303 2027 83*
1970 1,510 1999 1,050 2028 -1345*
1971 2,183 2000 2,129 2029 228*
1972 1,773 2001 2,395    
1973 1,567 2002 207    
1974 2,471 2003 -5,169    
1975 2,989 2004 -4,070    
1976 2,805 2005 -1,223    
1977 2,094 2006 -971    
1978 1,282 2007 5,197    
1979 896 2008 2,526    
1980 1,246 2009 422    
1981 1,432 2010 4,818    
1982 154 2011 909    
1983 1,111 2012 2,744    
1984 1,239 2013 -1,839    
1985 1,352 2014 -2,453    
1986 758 2015 -1,610    
1987 1,593 2016 -1,265    
1988 2,229 2017 -2,238    
1989 126 2018 -1,048    
1990 2,115 2019 -2,346    
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Employee Counts

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Year Count Year Count Year Count
1962 435,169 1991 748,961 2020 495,941
1963 437,127 1992 725,290 2021 516,636
1964 440,759 1993 691723 2022 516,760
1965 447,394 1994 728,,994 2023 525,469
1966 474,403 1995 753,384 2024  
1967 509,145 1996 760,966    
1968 532,301 1997 765,174    
1969 546,181 1998 792,041    
1970 548,572 1999 797,795    
1971 545,911 2000 787,538    
1972 570,688 2001 775,903    
1973 548,876 2002 752,949    
1974 564,015 2003 729,035    
1975 559,064 2004 707,485    
1976 542,604 2005 704,716    
1977 528,556 2006 696,138    
1978 526,115 2007 684,762    
1979 533,749 2008 663,238    
1980 536,373 2009 623,128    
1981 546,154 2010 583,908    
1982 546,417 2011 557,251    
1983 546,941 2012 528,458    
1984 672,849 2013 491,017    
1985 704,807 2014 488,300    
1986 744,929 2015 491,863    
1987 765,338 2016 508,908    
1988 779,083 2017 503,103    
1989 777,715 2018 497,157    
1990 760,668 2019 496,934    
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