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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 Section

How to Read Our Financial Statements



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2000 Annual Report - page 28 of 70

In this section, we give you the first piece of the puzzle and discuss our revenue and expenses for the year. We discuss in detail what each of the various products we offer contributed to our total revenue and how our revenue for 2000 compared to our revenue in the past two years. We also describe the rather lengthy and complicated process we must go through in order to bring the rates we are allowed to charge into line with the expenses we must pay. In addition to our revenue, we discuss our expenses for 2000 and how these expenses compared to our expenses in 1998 and 1999. For both our revenue and our expenses, we give our estimate of what we think they will be next year.

In the next chart we show our net cash provided by operations. This is part of our presentation on understanding our financial condition that is summarized on pages 46* and 47**.



Lower cash from operations
results primarily from
higher costs.


*  page 42 in the printed version
** page 43 in the printed version

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