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USPS releases 2015 Postal Facts

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USPS added more than 970,000 delivery points in 2014, one of the stats in this year’s Postal Facts.

Did you know the Postal Service processes an average 5,900 mailpieces every second?

Or that USPS, if it were a private company, would rank 43rd on the Fortune 500 list?

Or that mule trains still carry mail to the bottom of the Grand Canyon in Arizona?

If not, check out the just-released edition of this year’s Postal Facts, an annual publication that educates the public about USPS.

In addition to eye-opening factoids, the 2015 edition includes sections on how the Postal Service is embracing innovation and using technology to make mail more interactive and effective.

Postal Facts won a PR News Platinum Award for best external or online publication last year.

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