How to Read
Our Annual Report
2000 Highlights
Letter from
the Postmaster General/CEO
2000 Year
in Review
Delivering
the Future
The Governors
of the Postal Service
Audit Committee
Financial
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2000 Annual Report
- page 2 of 70
Have four minutes? We’ll give you our world.
Some researchers say that shareholders spend an average of four
minutes reading an annual report. We hope that you’ll be able to
spend more time than that with this year’s Annual Report of the
United States Postal Service. Delivering almost 208 billion pieces
of mail to more than 136 million delivery addresses a year is a
big job. It takes a lot of information to tell that story.
Either way, we’ve tried to make it as easy as possible for you to
understand who we are, what we do and how we do it. After all, every
individual, every household, every business, every organization
and every institution in the United States—public or private—is
a stakeholder, an owner, of the United States Postal Service. And
this Annual Report is our accounting to you.
If you’ve only got four minutes, you might want to start with our
financial highlights below. Then, review a summary of the year’s
business and operational highlights on page
4*.
Postmaster General and CEO Bill Henderson’s letter on page
5**
looks at the year’s accomplishments and outlines our approach to
the challenges of the future.
Of course, you’ll find an in-depth discussion of our finances beginning
on page 21***, with a more thorough look at the year in review on page
7****. A detailed discussion of the key challenges facing the organization,
and how we propose to meet them, is on page 14*****.
Your Postal Service has been a key part of the nation’s communications
network for more than 200 years. And we’re working to maintain its
value and relevance for many years to come.
* page 3 in the printed version
** page 4 in the printed version
*** page 15 in the printed version
**** page 6 in the printed version
***** page 10 in the printed version
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