I knew USPS was busy, but holy shit...

http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-facts/one-day-by-the-numbers.htm

This is just one day's numbers. No wonder domestic is so safe for the most part.

Edit: For those who don't want to get off TOR to view:

Just one day in the life of the U.S. Postal Service... by the numbers

Each day the Postal Service picks up, processes and delivers millions of letters and packages. No single operation in the world comes close to this level of connectivity to so many households and businesses. Here's just ONE day in the life of the United States Postal Service. (Figures are averages.)

227.1 million -- revenue received, in dollars

5.9 million -- dollars paid to postal employees in salaries and benefits

509 million -- number of mailpieces processed and delivered each day

21.2 million -- average number of mailpieces processed each hour

353,000-- average number of mailpieces processed each minute

5,890 -- average number of mailpieces processed each second

206 million -- pieces of First-Class Mail processed and delivered

7,184 -- number of letter carriers who deliver mail entirely on foot -- The USPS Fleet of Feet

122,000 -- number of address changes processed

3,630 -- number of addresses added to our delivery network

4.1 million -- number of people who visit usps.com

758,356 -- dollar amount of online stamp and retail sales at usps.com

1.5 million -- amount of money spent on postage for Click-N-Ship labels

146,850-- number of Click-N-Ship labels printed

306,930 -- number of money orders issued

1.5 million -- dollars spent at self-service kiosks in Post Office lobbies

0 -- tax dollars received for operating the Postal Service


Comments


[26 Points] None:

21 million fucking parcels!!!!!!!!!!! Props to the mailman and the crew, they're doing god's work


[5 Points] RosyPalm:

Safety in numbers ;-)


[6 Points] None:

yeah, this is what makes me roll my eyes when people are talking about dogs and x-rays, especially on personal amounts. Can you imagine the infrastructure you would need for dogs and x-rays on domestic mail? You would need 100,000 dogs and a massive crew of x-ray examiners.

I am sure you can do something egregious to get USPS to notice your suspicious email. But the chances that are going to notice a needle in this haystack are incredibly low.

I'm convinced most of the CDs are due to informants, not due to detecting anything in the mail.


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[2 Points] None:

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[1 Points] Merolanna:

Remember that there are also only about 1200 postal inspectors.


[1 Points] tfdsajln:

I wonder how many go through customs?

Does customs even really check every package or do they randomly select one out of every few thousand to XRay? Theres noooo way they can even come close to checking them all.


[1 Points] somanyroads:

Nothing but respect for postal workers of all stripes: that is long, tough, unappreciated work.


[0 Points] None:

0 - tax dollars...just goes to show, we don't really need much less want the governments money after all. Yet they take ours. You get em USPS. Fuckin ballers.