1. Eco-friendly Products and Services
  2. Greening Your Mail
  3. Recycle
  4. Innovation
  5. Direct and Green
  • 2009 Sustainability Report - read about our latest green accomplishments
  • Check out how we're making planer-friendly choices every day. Picture of USPS green roof in New York City.
  • Eco-friendly products and services. With the right resources, it's easy to be green.
  • Reducing energy use. Creating a culture of conservation. Picture of worker installing lights.
  • USPS helps deliver a greener tomorrow. Read how in Parcel magazine.

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Leaving a green footprint

We’ve been planet friendly for a long time. Alternative fuel-capable vehicles — we’ve got ’em by the thousands. Eco-friendly products, have those too. Recycling. Done it for years.

And other delivery companies hand off their packages to us to deliver to your door — saving fuel and energy.

electric vehicles, then and now

Charged up and ready to deliver

Electric vehicles might be one of the hottest things now in green technology, but USPS has been using them for more than a hundred years.

green ideas

Green ideas for direct mailers

Green roof in NYC

USPS green roof largest in NYC

The Morgan Processing and Distribution Center in downtown Manhattan has the largest green roof in New York City.

2009 Sustainability Report cover

2009 Sustainability Report

See how we’re creating a better, more sustainable environment.

2008 sustainability report

Shipping packages

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Green your shipping with Cradle-to-CradleSM certified packaging. It's free!

What's your Earth impact?

What’s your earth impact?

Visit EarthLab.com to determine your carbon footprint and create your own conservation plan.

Climate Registry logo

Delivering on climate change

USPS is the first federal agency to publicly report its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and to receive third party verification of the results.