As you tape those additional two pennies to your envelopes today, keep these tidbits in mind:
If it the Postal Service were a private sector company, it would rank 26th on the 2008 Fortune 500 list, just behind UnitedHealth Group and just ahead of Kroger and Boeing.
With the Postal Service losing money ($2.8 billion in fiscal 2008), Postmaster General John Potter has felt some heat for the $857,459 he earned in salary and benefits last year. (His income would buy almost 43 million 2-cent stamps.)
The Postal Service is an independent federal agency and covers its expenses not with tax money but with the sale of stamps, postage and postal services.
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