How much have letter carrier donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list LETTER CARRIER sum to $5,791,591 across 81,247 contributions and 1,844 donor records in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data. The total is an exact-string occupation filter. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Why are there 81,247 contributions?

That is the itemized line count for this exact string. Repeat gifts from the same 1,844 donor records add rows. About 44 lines per record and about $71 per contribution are means on $5,791,591, not a payroll-deduction proof. The occupation field is donor-typed on Form 3 and Form 3X. LobbyVault indexes exact strings from FEC.gov bulk data. Unitemized gifts never carry an occupation code.

Does this include all postal workers?

No. Only rows whose occupation field equals LETTER CARRIER. POSTAL WORKER and MAIL CARRIER stay on their own pages. This key is $5,791,591, 81,247 lines, and 1,844 donors. Cite the three packet facts with the exact occupation string. Source: FEC.gov Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault. Unitemized receipts are outside this total.

Where do I see individual receipts?

Open the LETTER CARRIER occupation page, then verify on FEC.gov. Given 81,247 lines, filtering on that table matters more than this summary. The occupation total is $5,791,591. Confirm surprising amounts on the committee report at FEC.gov. Occupation matching is exact-string only. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

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What letter carrier donors give in federal races

Donors who listed LETTER CARRIER as occupation account for $5,791,591 in itemized federal receipts in LobbyVault’s index of FEC.gov bulk files. That sum sits on 81,247 contribution lines tied to 1,844 donor records. LETTER CARRIER is a USPS job title in common use. POSTAL WORKER and MAIL CARRIER are neighboring keys if they appear as different text. The line count is among the highest in this occupation band. In compact form the occupation total is $5.8 million.

Key figures

LETTER CARRIER itemizations sum to $5,791,591 from 81,247 contributions and 1,844 donors.
Mean amounts are about $71 per contribution and about $3,141 per donor record.
Postal worker and mail carrier spellings are excluded from this sum.
Occupation is self-reported on FEC Form 3/3X, not a verified job roster.

Extreme line volume under $5.8 million

$5,791,591 is the occupation-level dollar total. 81,247 is the itemization count. 1,844 is the donor-record count. Dividing dollars by lines yields about $71 per contribution. Dividing by donors yields about $3,141 per donor record. The repeat rate is about 44 itemizations per donor record. Eighty-one thousand-plus lines from 1,844 donor records is an extreme high-frequency pattern: many receipts per person and a low mean dollars per line.

Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution, no party split, and no cycle series. A few large lines can lift $71 while most receipts stay smaller—or the reverse. This guide cites only the three harvested facts and the trivial ratios computed from them.

That shape often fits payroll-style small itemizations and PAC-related repeat giving, but this packet has no channel split. This guide does not assign percentages to those mechanisms.

Self-reported craft title, not a USPS roster

LETTER CARRIER, MAIL CARRIER, and POSTAL WORKER are different occupation keys if committees typed them that way. A donor who files POSTAL WORKER in one cycle and LETTER CARRIER in another is split.

FEC Form 3 (candidate committees) and Form 3X (PACs and party committees) collect occupation as free text on itemized Schedule A. FEC.gov publishes what committees reported. There is no drop-down of job titles and no license check. LobbyVault groups rows whose occupation field equals LETTER CARRIER after indexing. MAIL CARRIER, POSTAL WORKER, and LETTER CARRIER (USPS) remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to LETTER CARRIER.

What 1,844 donor records can and cannot show

1,844 donor records used LETTER CARRIER on at least one matching itemization. FEC.gov does not cross-check occupation against USPS employment. Retired carriers and people who typed the title loosely can appear. The 1,844 figure is matching text, not a headcount of the carrier craft.

A person who listed LETTER CARRIER on some gifts and a neighboring title on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines. Occupation is stored per transaction, not as a lifetime identity field. Address variants can also split one human into more than one donor record.

Occupation versus postal employer pages

Industry pages on LobbyVault group employer-side categories. Industry pages may group public-administration or postal employers. This occupation page groups only the job-title string LETTER CARRIER. Adding $5,791,591 to an industry total double-counts overlapping itemizations. Use one filter at a time unless you are tracing a single row.

Open the LETTER CARRIER occupation page for the indexed line list. Use the occupations index to place this string next to neighboring labels. Independent expenditures are not contributions and are not inside $5,791,591.

How to cite the letter carrier key

A usable public-record citation names the exact string: LETTER CARRIER itemizations in FEC bulk data indexed on LobbyVault sum to $5,791,591 on 81,247 contributions from 1,844 donor records. Add that the figure is itemized occupation money. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter the total.

Source: FEC Form 3/3X schedules. The facts do not encode party. Recipient committees are a different join. Occupation is not a USPS roster and not a postal-union membership list.

Treating LETTER CARRIER as a high-line occupation string

LETTER CARRIER in this extract is $5,791,591 on 81,247 itemizations from 1,844 donor records, or $5.8 million in compact millions. Those dollars are itemized activity on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov bulk data. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter the total. Refunds and memo entries follow FEC presentation in the underlying schedules; this guide does not invent a fourth occupation-level fact. The Postal Service can list who carries mail. FEC itemizations list whoever typed LETTER CARRIER. The occupation field is donor-supplied free text, not a NAICS industry code and not a verified roster.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $71 per contribution and about $3,141 per donor record, with roughly 44 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. MAIL CARRIER, POSTAL WORKER, and LETTER CARRIER (USPS) remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to LETTER CARRIER. Combining those keys without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster.

Industry pages group employer-side categories and should not be added to $5,791,591. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals LETTER CARRIER, dollars equal $5,791,591, contributions equal 81,247, donors equal 1,844. Candidate and committee pages hold the recipient side. LobbyVault does not infer motive from the occupation column.

Researchers who need cycle cuts, employer text, or recipient lists should leave this guide and open the live occupation hub. This file restates harvested packet facts only. Compact millions ($5.8 million) are the same headline amount as $5,791,591, rounded to one decimal place. Keep the contribution count and the donor-record count in any sentence that quotes the dollars, so readers can see the shape of LETTER CARRIER in this extract. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query.

Questions

How much have letter carrier donors given in FEC records?: Itemizations that list LETTER CARRIER sum to $5,791,591 across 81,247 contributions and 1,844 donor records in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data. The total is an exact-string occupation filter. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.
Why are there 81,247 contributions?: That is the itemized line count for this exact string. Repeat gifts from the same 1,844 donor records add rows. About 44 lines per record and about $71 per contribution are means on $5,791,591, not a payroll-deduction proof. The occupation field is donor-typed on Form 3 and Form 3X. LobbyVault indexes exact strings from FEC.gov bulk data. Unitemized gifts never carry an occupation code.
Does this include all postal workers?: No. Only rows whose occupation field equals LETTER CARRIER. POSTAL WORKER and MAIL CARRIER stay on their own pages. This key is $5,791,591, 81,247 lines, and 1,844 donors. Cite the three packet facts with the exact occupation string. Source: FEC.gov Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault. Unitemized receipts are outside this total.
Where do I see individual receipts?: Open the LETTER CARRIER occupation page, then verify on FEC.gov. Given 81,247 lines, filtering on that table matters more than this summary. The occupation total is $5,791,591. Confirm surprising amounts on the committee report at FEC.gov. Occupation matching is exact-string only. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Occupation is self-reported on FEC Form 3/3X itemizations. Indexed on LobbyVault from FEC bulk data.