The United States Postal Service (USPS), (also known as
the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service), is an
independent agency of the United States government
responsible for providing postal service in the United
States. It is one of the few government agencies
explicitly authorized by the United States Constitution.
The U.S. Mail traces its roots to 1775 during the Second
Continental Congress, where Benjamin Franklin was
appointed the first postmaster general. The Post Office
Department was created in 1792 from Franklin's
operation, elevated to a cabinet-level department in
1872, and transformed in 1971 into the U.S. Postal
Service as an agency of the U.S. government.
The USPS as of February 2015 has 617,254 active
employees and operated 211,264 vehicles in 2014. The
USPS is the operator of the largest civilian vehicle
fleet in the world.The USPS is legally obligated to
serve all Americans, regardless of geography, at uniform
price and quality. The USPS has exclusive access to
letter boxes marked "U.S. Mail" and personal letterboxes
in the United States, but still competes against private
package delivery services, such as the United Parcel
Service (UPS) and has part use with FedEx Express.
Since the early 1980s, many of the direct tax subsidies
to the Post Office (with the exception of subsidies for
costs associated with the disabled and overseas voters)
have been reduced or eliminated in favor of indirect
subsidies, in addition to the advantages associated with
a government-enforced monopoly on the delivery of
first-class mail.Since the 2006 all-time peak mail
volume,after which Congress passed the Postal
Accountability and Enhancement Act, (which mandated
$5.5 billion per year to be paid into an account to
fully prefund employee retirement health benefits, a
requirement exceeding that of other government and
private organizations , revenue dropped sharply due
to recession-influenceddeclining mail volume,
prompting the postal service to look to other sources of
revenue while cutting costs to reduce its budget
deficit. The USPS lost $5.5 billion in fiscal year
2014 and $5.1 billion in 2015, and its revenue was $67.8
billion in 2014 and $68.9 billion in 2015.
20th century[edit]
The advent of Rural Free Delivery (RFD) in the U.S. in
1896, and the inauguration of a domestic parcel post
service by Postmaster General Frank H. Hitchcock in
1913, greatly increased the volume of mail shipped
nationwide, and motivated the development of more
efficient postal transportation systems.[28] Many rural
customers took advantage of inexpensive Parcel Post
rates to order goods and products from businesses
located hundreds of miles away in distant cities for
delivery by mail.[29] From the 1910s to the 1960s, many
college students and others used parcel post to mail
home dirty laundry, as doing so was less expensive than
washing the clothes themselves.[30]
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After four-year-old Charlotte May Pierstorff was mailed
from her parents to her grandparents in Idaho in 1914,
mailing of people was prohibited.[29] In 1917, the Post
Office imposed a maximum daily mailable limit of two
hundred pounds per customer per day after a business
entrepreneur, W.H. Coltharp, used inexpensive parcel-
post rates to ship more than eighty thousand masonry
bricks some four hundred seven miles via horse-drawn
wagon and train for the construction of a bank building
in Vernal, Utah.[31][32]
The advent of parcel post also led to the growth of Mail
order businesses that substantially increased rural
access to modern goods over what was typically stocked
in local general stores.
the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service), is an
independent agency of the United States government
responsible for providing postal service in the United
States. It is one of the few government agencies
explicitly authorized by the United States Constitution.
The U.S. Mail traces its roots to 1775 during the Second
Continental Congress, where Benjamin Franklin was
appointed the first postmaster general. The Post Office
Department was created in 1792 from Franklin's
operation, elevated to a cabinet-level department in
1872, and transformed in 1971 into the U.S. Postal
Service as an agency of the U.S. government.
The USPS as of February 2015 has 617,254 active
employees and operated 211,264 vehicles in 2014. The
USPS is the operator of the largest civilian vehicle
fleet in the world.The USPS is legally obligated to
serve all Americans, regardless of geography, at uniform
price and quality. The USPS has exclusive access to
letter boxes marked "U.S. Mail" and personal letterboxes
in the United States, but still competes against private
package delivery services, such as the United Parcel
Service (UPS) and has part use with FedEx Express.
Since the early 1980s, many of the direct tax subsidies
to the Post Office (with the exception of subsidies for
costs associated with the disabled and overseas voters)
have been reduced or eliminated in favor of indirect
subsidies, in addition to the advantages associated with
a government-enforced monopoly on the delivery of
first-class mail.Since the 2006 all-time peak mail
volume,after which Congress passed the Postal
Accountability and Enhancement Act, (which mandated
$5.5 billion per year to be paid into an account to
fully prefund employee retirement health benefits, a
requirement exceeding that of other government and
private organizations , revenue dropped sharply due
to recession-influenceddeclining mail volume,
prompting the postal service to look to other sources of
revenue while cutting costs to reduce its budget
deficit. The USPS lost $5.5 billion in fiscal year
2014 and $5.1 billion in 2015, and its revenue was $67.8
billion in 2014 and $68.9 billion in 2015.
20th century[edit]
The advent of Rural Free Delivery (RFD) in the U.S. in
1896, and the inauguration of a domestic parcel post
service by Postmaster General Frank H. Hitchcock in
1913, greatly increased the volume of mail shipped
nationwide, and motivated the development of more
efficient postal transportation systems.[28] Many rural
customers took advantage of inexpensive Parcel Post
rates to order goods and products from businesses
located hundreds of miles away in distant cities for
delivery by mail.[29] From the 1910s to the 1960s, many
college students and others used parcel post to mail
home dirty laundry, as doing so was less expensive than
washing the clothes themselves.[30]
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After four-year-old Charlotte May Pierstorff was mailed
from her parents to her grandparents in Idaho in 1914,
mailing of people was prohibited.[29] In 1917, the Post
Office imposed a maximum daily mailable limit of two
hundred pounds per customer per day after a business
entrepreneur, W.H. Coltharp, used inexpensive parcel-
post rates to ship more than eighty thousand masonry
bricks some four hundred seven miles via horse-drawn
wagon and train for the construction of a bank building
in Vernal, Utah.[31][32]
The advent of parcel post also led to the growth of Mail
order businesses that substantially increased rural
access to modern goods over what was typically stocked
in local general stores.
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