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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

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Operating Statistics
 
2000 Annual Report - page 66 of 70

(in millions of units indicated)
  Class of Mail

2000

1999*

1998

1997

1996

 

  First-Class Mail            
  Pieces, number

103,525.7

101,936.5

100,434.2

99,659.9

98,216.1

 
  Weight, pounds

4,392.0

4,299.9

4,151.3

4,115.1

4,019.5

 
  Revenue

$ 35,515.9

$ 34,933.2

$ 33,861.2

$ 33,397.6

$ 33,116.5

 
  Priority Mail            
  Pieces, number

1,222.5

1,189.5

1,174.4

1,068.2

937.3

 
  Weight, pounds

2,352.3

2,142.6

1,980.0

1,860.6

1,562.8

 
  Revenue

$  4,837.1

$  4,533.3

$  4,187.4

$  3,856.9

$  3,321.5

 
  Express Mail            
  Pieces, number

70.9

68.7

66.2

63.6

57.6

 
  Weight, pounds

80.0

78.3

77.7

76.3

63.7

 
  Revenue

$    996.1

$    942.0

$    854.5

$    824.7

$    736.8

 
  Mailgrams            
  Pieces, number

3.7

4.1

4.3

5.3

4.2

 
  Revenue

$       1.5

$       1.6

$       1.7

$       2.0

$       1.6

 
  Periodicals            
  Pieces, number

10,364.8

10,273.8

10,316.8

10,411.4

10,126.2

 
  Weight, pounds

4,720.3

4,482.6

4,451.1

4,338.3

4,132.0

 
  Revenue

$  2,170.7

$  2,115.3

$  2,072.3

$  2,067.5

$  2,013.9

 
  Standard Mail (A)            
  Pieces, number

90,057.1

85,661.7

82,508.1

77,253.6

71,686.1

 
  Weight, pounds

11,142.6

10,648.3

10,376.8

9,693.9

9,014.4

 
  Revenue

$ 15,193.3

$ 14,435.8

$ 13,701.7

$ 12,876.0

$ 12,175.1

 
  Standard Mail (B)            
  Pieces, number

1,128.4

1,043.1

1,023.4

988.4

948.9

 
  Weight, pounds

3,773.8

3,533.2

3,407.3

2,889.9

2,696.6

 
  Revenue

$  1,912.3

$  1,828.5

$  1,754.3

$  1,627.6

$  1,524.1

 
  International Surface            
  Pieces, number

78.7

103.2

95.6

97.4

104.5

 
  Weight, pounds

89.4

96.1

95.6

102.0

106.5

 
  Revenue

$    180.3

$    193.9

$    183.7

$    192.0

$    198.9

 
  International Air            
  Pieces, number

1,020.7

927.5

848.4

909.5

948.6

 
  Weight, pounds

169.7

152.2

149.0

157.2

147.0

 
  Revenue**

$  1,477.2

$  1,434.2

$  1,416.1

$  1,422.8

$  1,449.9

 
  U.S. Postal Service            
  Pieces, number

362.9

382.3

380.1

377.3

360.1

 
  Weight, pounds

95.3

102.6

96.2

88.4

97.8

 
  Free Mail for the Blind and Handicapped            
  Pieces, number

46.6

53.2

53.2

53.3

50.0

 
  Weight, pounds

25.1

26.6

27.2

30.6

32.6

 
  Totals***            
  Pieces, number

207,882.2

201,643.5

196,904.7

190,888.1

183,439.5

 
  Weight, pounds

26,840.6

25,562.2

24,812.3

23,352.4

21,873.0

 
  Revenue

$ 62,284.3

$ 60,417.8

$ 58,032.9

$ 56,267.0

$ 54,538.2

 

   * Certain reclassifications have been made to previously reported international amounts.
  ** Includes foreign postal transaction revenue.
 *** Agency and franked mail are included in their classes of mail, when using official mail.
Some totals may not add exactly due to rounding.

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