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20 | 2005 Annual Report United States Postal Service
available free of charge by sending a request to:
United States Postal Service
Public Affairs and Communications,
475 L’Enfant Plaza, SW,
Washington, DC 20260-5241.
Information on our website is not incorporated by reference
in this document.
Item 2. Properties
We currently control more than 34,000 leased or owned
facilities in the United States, its possessions, and territo-
ries. We also contract with approximately 3,000 locations
to distribute our products. The size of our facilities ranges
from fifty square feet to as large as 35.3 acres under one
roof. The types of real estate include, but are not limited
to, Post Offices, carrier facilities, mail processing plants,
retail outlets, business office space, warehouse space,
vehicle maintenance facilities, and other permanent or
temporary space. The vast majority of these facilities are
Post Offices, stations, branches, and carrier annexes. We
have 675 processing and distribution facilities (Processing
and Distribution Facilities, Air Mail Facilities and Bulk Mail
Facilities), and over 1,000 other types of facilities including
administrative, support and vehicle maintenance facilities.
(Dollars in millions)
Real estate inventory 2005 2004
Leased facilities 25,772 25,413
Owned facilities 8,399 8,807
GSA/other government facilities 417 425
Annual rent paid to lessors $ 934 $ 946
Processing Facilities 2005 2004
Processing and distribution centers 269 269
Customer service facilities 195 195
Bulk mail processing facilities 21 21
Priority mail processing centers 11 11
Annexes 66 66
Hub and spoke processing facilities 14 14
Air mail processing centers 79 79
Remote encoding centers 15 15
International service centers 5 5
Total Processing Facilities 675 675
We have one of the largest vehicle fleets in the country,
including an extensive fleet of alternative fuel vehicles.
Vehicle inventory 2005 2004
Delivery & Collection Vehicles
(1/2 – 2 ton) 188,673 188,804
Mail Transport Vehicles
(3 – 9 ton) 3,050 2,580
Mail Transport Vehicles
(Tractors and Trailers) 6,909 7,105
Service Vehicles 5,688 5,468
Administrative Vehicles and
Other Vehicles 6,533 6,603
Inspection Service and
Law Enforcement Vehicles 3,293 2,761
Total Owned Vehicles 214,146 213,321
Item 3. Legal Proceedings
We are subject to various claims and liabilities that arise in
the ordinary and normal course of postal operations. These
claims generally cover labor, tort, and contract disputes
and are regularly reviewed by management and, where
significant, by the Audit and Finance Committee of the
Board of Governors, or the full Board of Governors. In our
evaluation, no single claim is material to our financial state-
ments taken as a whole. We have accrued in our financial
statements of September 30, 2005, the estimated impact
of those claims we think it is probable we will pay. Further
details on these claims are identified in Note 10 of the
Notes to the Financial Statements
Item 4. Submission of Matters to a Vote
of Security Holders
Not applicable to this report.
Financial review
Part I