USPS has a monopoly on "letter" delivery within the US and operates under a universal service obligation, both of which are defined across a broad set of legal mandates, which obligate it to provide uniform price and quality across the entirety of its service area.
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For every penny increase in the national average price of gasoline, the USPS spends an extra million per year to fuel its fleet.
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Department of Defense and the USPS jointly operate a postal system to deliver mail for the military; this is known as the Army Post Office and the Fleet Post Office.
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In 2016, the USPS had its fifth straight annual operating loss, in the amount of $5.
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USPS almost delivered the first email but did not do so.
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On December 5,2011, the USPS announced it would close more than half of its mail processing centers, eliminate 28,000 jobs and reduce overnight delivery of First-Class Mail.
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In July 2011, the USPS announced a plan to close about 3,700 small post offices.
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On Thursday, April 15,2010, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing to examine the status of the Postal Service and recent reports on short and long-term strategies for the financial viability and stability of the USPS entitled "Continuing to Deliver: An Examination of the Postal Service's Current Financial Crisis and its Future Viability".
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In 2017, the USPS defaulted on some of the last lump-sum payments required by the 2006 law, though other payments were still required.
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USPS brought a new digital postmark which allowed email to be certified just as the traditional postmark did paper envelopes.
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USPS says now, “If we could control millions of mailboxes in the United States effectively, we can certainly control e-mail addresses.
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USPS said he would reinstate overtime hours, roll back service reductions, and halt the removal of mail-sorting machines and collection boxes.
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Unlike a state-owned enterprise, the USPS lacks a transparent ownership structure and isn't subject to standard rules and norms that apply to commercial entities.
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USPS assigns city names to various postal addresses; these assignments do not always correspond with municipal boundaries.
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USPS explored a digital identity using an email address in its "Digital Identity – Opportunities for the Postal Service" report in 2012.
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FedEx and United Parcel Service directly compete with USPS Express Mail and package delivery services, making nationwide deliveries of urgent letters and packages.
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USPS specifies the following key elements when preparing the face of a mailpiece:.
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The USPS publishes the entirety of their postal addressing standards.
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Postal address verification tools and services are offered by the USPS and third-party companies to help ensure mail is deliverable by fixing formatting, appending information such as ZIP Code and validating the address is a valid delivery point.
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The USPS provides DPV on their website as part of the ZIP Code Lookup tool; there are companies that offer services to perform DPV in bulk.
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The USPS calls these Forever Stamps but the generic name is non-denominated postage.
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In May 2007, the USPS restructured international service names to correspond with domestic shipping options.
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One of the major changes in the new naming and services definitions is that USPS-supplied mailing boxes for Priority and Express mail are now allowed for international use.
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The USPS provides much of this service by contracting with a private parcel service, FedEx.
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Mail from individual customers and public USPS mailboxes is collected by letter carriers into plastic tubs, which are taken to one of approximately 251 Processing and Distribution Centers across the United States.
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In February 2006, the USPS announced that they plan to replace the nine existing facility-types with five processing facility-types:.
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In December 2012, the USPS began a limited one-year trial of same-day deliveries directly from retailers or distribution hubs to residential addresses in the same local area, a service it dubbed "Metro Post".
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In March 2013, the USPS faced new same-day competition for e-commerce deliveries from Google Shopping Express.
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USPS employees are divided into major crafts according to the work they engage in:.
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