United States Post Office Locations Locator Map and Directory

Company Info and History: The United States Postal Service (USPS) is an "independent establishment of the executive branch" of the United States Government (see 39 U.S.C. 201) responsible for providing postal service in the United States. Within the United States, it is colloquially referred to simply as "the post office.

The postal service was created in Philadelphia under Benjamin Franklin on July 26, 1775 by decree of the Second Continental Congress. Based on a clause in the United States Constitution empowering Congress "To establish post offices and post roads," it became the Post Office Department in 1792. It was part of the Presidential cabinet and the postmaster general was the last person in the United States presidential line of succession. In 1971, the department was reorganized as a quasi-independent agency of the federal government and acquired its present name. The postmaster general is no longer in the presidential line of succession.

USPS Facts:

The USPS is the third-largest employer in the United States (after the United States Department of Defense and Wal-Mart) and operates the largest civilian vehicle fleet in the world, with an estimated 260,000 vehicles.

Deliver 212 billion pieces of mail to over 144 million homes, businesses and Post Office boxes in virtually every state, city, and town in the country, including Puerto Rico, Guam, the American Virgin Islands and American Samoa.

Employ more than 700,000 career employees, who communicate with each other on the world's largest intranet.

Serve over 7.5 million customers daily at more than 37,000 Post Offices.