Interesting holiday numbers from the post office
Postmaster Ft Myers/Cape Coral
Here are some interesting numbers relating to the U.S. Postal Service.
– 232: Number of years the U.S. Postal Service has been delivering holiday cheer.
– 19 billion: Number of cards, letters and packages to be delivered between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
– 3.4 billion: Number of letters mailed over the holidays.
– 960 million: Number of pieces of mail processed on Dec. 15, the busiest mailing day of the year.
– 700 million: Average number of pieces of mail processed daily.
– 826 million: Average number of pieces of mail processed daily during the holidays.
– 20 million: In pounds, the amount of mail the Postal Service will process for overseas military installations, including war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan.
– 7,400: Number of Post Offices with expanded hours.
– 214,500: Number of vehicles used to transport holiday mail, including 188,336 half-ton trucks.
– 130 million: Number of customers who visit the Post Office during the holidays.
This holiday, the U.S. Postal Service is giving you something you can really use. More time. Do all your shipping and more online at usps.com. Pay postage and print shipping labels. Order flat-rate boxes, the ultimate gift box. Check holiday mailing dates. All at a time and day convenient to you.
An independent federal agency, the U.S. Postal Service is the only delivery service that visits every address in the nation – 146 million homes and businesses. It has 37,000 retail locations and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to pay for operating expenses, not tax dollars. The Postal Service has annual revenues of $75 billion and delivers nearly half the world’s mail.