{"id":11812,"date":"2012-08-18T00:58:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T05:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=11812"},"modified":"2012-08-16T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T18:00:00","slug":"a-day-in-the-life-of-the-u-s-postal-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/08\/a-day-in-the-life-of-the-u-s-postal-service\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day in the Life of the U.S. Postal Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><em>by Debra J. Mitchell \u2013 United States Postal Service<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>Special to the Lehigh Acres \u00a0Gazette<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Each day the U.S. Postal Service picks up, processes and delivers millions of letters and packages.\u00a0 No single operation in the world comes close to this level of connectivity to so many households and businesses.\u00a0 Here\u2019s ONE day in the life of your United States Postal Service.\u00a0 (Figures are averages.)<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>216.9 million \u2013 revenue received, in dollars<\/p>\n<p>554 million \u2013 number of mail pieces processed and delivered<\/p>\n<p>242.6 million \u2013 pieces of First-Class Mail processed and delivered<\/p>\n<p>279.5 million \u2013 pieces of Advertising Mail processed and delivered<\/p>\n<p>159 million \u2013 dollars paid to postal employees in salaries and benefits<\/p>\n<p>214,520 \u2013 number of packages picked up through Carrier Pickup<\/p>\n<p>4 million \u2013 number of miles driven by letter carriers and truck drivers<\/p>\n<p>8,250 \u2013 number of letter carriers who deliver mail entirely on foot\u2014the USPS Fleet of Feet<\/p>\n<p>136,964 \u2013 number of address changes processed<\/p>\n<p>2,100 \u2013 number of addresses added to the delivery network<\/p>\n<p>1.2 million \u2013 number of people who visit usps.com<\/p>\n<p>778,877 \u2013 dollar amount of online stamp and retail sales at usps.com<\/p>\n<p>1.5 million \u2013 amount of money spent on postage for Click-N-Ship labels<\/p>\n<p>18,701 \u2013 number of passport applications accepted<\/p>\n<p>382,256 \u2013 number of money orders issued<\/p>\n<p>284,000 \u2013 number of transactions processed at 2,500 Self Service Shipping &amp; Mailing Centers<\/p>\n<p>1.7 million \u2013 dollars spent at Self Service Shipping &amp; Mailings Centers<\/p>\n<p>6.1 million \u2013 customers served at more than 31,000 retail locations<\/p>\n<p><strong>0 \u2013 tax dollars received for operating the Postal Service<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr. Zip\u2019s Tip:\u00a0<\/strong>More than 12 million address changes were submitted online in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Debra J. Mitchell \u2013 United States Postal Service Special to the Lehigh Acres \u00a0Gazette Each day the U.S. Postal Service picks up, processes and delivers millions of letters and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}