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7.5.1 The discontinuation of international surface mail.7.3 Other electronic postage payment methods.7.1 Elements of addressing and preparing domestic mail.

5.5 Criticism of the universal service requirement and the postal monopoly.

5.2 2008 report on universal postal service and the postal monopoly.

5 Universal service obligation and monopoly status.

3.5 Coronavirus pandemic and voting by mail.3.4 Reform proposals and delivery changes.3.2 Retirement funding and payment defaults.3.1.4 Elimination of Saturday delivery averted.3.1.2 Internal streamlining and delivery slowdown.Mail' and personal letterboxes in the United States, but has to compete against private package delivery services, such as United Parcel Service, FedEx, and Amazon. The Post Office has exclusive access to letter boxes marked 'U.S. The USPS has a monopoly on 'letter' delivery within the United States and operates under a universal service obligation (USO), both of which are defined across a broad set of legal mandates, which obligate it to provide uniform price and quality across the entirety of its service area. Since the early 1980s, many direct tax subsidies to the USPS (with the exception of subsidies for costs associated with disabled and overseas voters) have been reduced or eliminated. It was elevated to a cabinet-level department in 1872, and was transformed by the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 into the United States Postal Service as an independent agency. The Post Office Department was created in 1792 with the passage of the Postal Service Act. The USPS traces its roots to 1775 during the Second Continental Congress, when Benjamin Franklin was appointed the first postmaster general he also served a similar position for the colonies of the Kingdom of Great Britain. The USPS, as of 2021, has 516,636 career employees and 136,531 non-career employees. It is one of the few government agencies explicitly authorized by the United States Constitution. Mail, or Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, including its insular areas and associated states. The United States Postal Service ( USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S.

#Usps stamps by mail full#

The full eagle logo, used in various versions from 1970 to 1993