USPS – by the numbers

Fiscal Year 2009 – 1^st Quarter

SPLY = Same Period Last Year

Total mail volume is down 9.3%

First-Class mail volume down 7.2%

Periodicals down 3.4%

Standard (bulk mail) down 10.9%

Packages down 8.5%

Shipping Services down 10.4%

Other Mail down 58.7%

Number of City Carriers:         209,422 – down 4.6%

Percentage of Union Members:      92.2% - up 0.2%

Number of Transitional Employees:   6,793 – down 46%

City Carriers per Delivery Supervisor: 16.9 – up 2.8%

Number of Total Career Employees: 655,912 – down 3.6%

The Postal Service lost $380 million in the Quarter 2009

Joseph R. Palmerson, President

NALC Branch 2128 Toms River

April 11, 2009

USPS – by the numbers

Fiscal Year 2008 – 4^th Quarter

SPLY = Same Period Last Year

Total mail volume is down 4.5%

First-Class mail volume down 4.8%

Periodicals down 2.2%

Standard (bulk mail) down 3.7%

Packages down 3.3%

Number of City Carrier Routes:    161,648 – down 1.1%

Number of Rural Carrier Routes:    76,575 – up 2.3%

Number of City Carriers:         218,874

Percentage of Union Members:      91.8%

Number of Transitional Employees:   7,213

Percent of the Bargaining Unit:       3.3%

City Carriers per Delivery Supervisor: 17.8 – up 2.8%

Number of Total Career Employees: 663,239 – down 3.1%

The Postal Service lost $2,806,000 in 2008.

Joseph R. Palmerson, President

NALC Branch 2128 Toms River

February 4, 2009