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Interesting Facts:

The U.S. Postal Service handles 46% of the world’s letter and card mail volume!

The USPS. delivers mail to every single household and location in the country, even at the bottom of the Grand Canyon! Mail is delivered in the Grand Canyon by mule, and is the USPS.’s only mule mail delivery route.

Mule Mail!

The USPS employs 797,795 people!

The USPS. uses the nation’s largest fleet of alternative-fuel-based vehicles (meaning vehicles that operate on natural gas or electricity) and is expected to include 30,000 vehicles by 2002.

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