{"id":104,"date":"2009-04-16T21:53:29","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T21:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=104"},"modified":"2009-04-18T16:43:55","modified_gmt":"2009-04-18T16:43:55","slug":"mail-is-big-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2009\/04\/16\/mail-is-big-business\/","title":{"rendered":"MAIL IS BIG BUSINESS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_150\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-150\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/mail-is-big-business.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-150\" title=\"mail-is-big-business\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/mail-is-big-business-150x150.gif\" alt=\"Mail Is Big Business\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-150\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mail Is Big Business<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>MAIL IS BIG BUSINESS<br \/>\n<\/strong>The Postal Service is the core of the trillion dollar mailing industry that employs more than 8 million people.*<\/p>\n<p>In 2008, these classes of mail brought in most of the $75 billion in revenue:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First-Class Mail $38.2 billion<\/li>\n<li>Advertising Mail $20.6 billion<\/li>\n<li>Shipping Services $8.4 billion<\/li>\n<li>International Mail $2.4 billion<\/li>\n<li>Periodicals $2.3 billion<\/li>\n<li>Package Services $1.8 billion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If it were a private sector company, the U.S. Postal Service would rank 26th in the 2008 Fortune 500. First-Class Mail, Advertising Mail and Shipping Services would each make the list as individual businesses \u2014 ranking 61st, 119th, and 310th respectively.<\/p>\n<p>*The Envelope Manufacturers Association reported in the &#8220;2008 Economic Jobs Study for the Mailing Industry&#8221; that there are 8.4 million jobs and over $1 trillion in revenue attributed to the mailing industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAIL IS BIG BUSINESS The Postal Service is the core of the trillion dollar mailing industry that employs more than 8 million people.* In 2008, these classes of mail brought in most of the $75 billion in revenue: First-Class Mail $38.2 billion Advertising Mail $20.6 billion Shipping Services $8.4 billion International Mail $2.4 billion Periodicals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editors-section","tag-editors-choice","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}