USPS as FEC employer text: $8.0 million

A four-letter agency abbreviation on Schedule A

LobbyVault ranks grouped employer text. USPS is the form committees stored when filers typed those four letters rather than United States Postal Service. The $8,027,435 total is those itemized individual gifts. It is not USPS operating revenue, not a NAICS 491 postal-service rollup, and not a union or management PAC.

People who typed UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE, US POSTAL SERVICE, US GOVERNMENT, or FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION sit in other rows. LobbyVault does not recode those variants into USPS. The FEC field is not a postal HR export. Former employees who still type USPS remain among the 2,556.

2,556 donors and 113,984 lines

2,556 unique donors produced 113,984 USPS contribution lines totaling $8,027,435. That is on the order of 45 itemized receipts per donor — among the highest paperwork volumes in this ranking, similar in shape to other large payroll-style clusters. Dollars per line run lower than thin historic-broker rows with a few hundred people. The packet does not publish a mean gift as its own FEC field.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Independent expenditures and postal PAC filings are outside the $8,027,435 unless an individual receipt itself carries this employer string. Unitemized gifts never appear. Repeat names among 113,984 lines are expected.

US GOVERNMENT is not this abbreviation

US GOVERNMENT, FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, and STATE OF CALIFORNIA are separate employer strings. Combining them with USPS would invent a public-sector recode. This page stays at $8,027,435 for the four-letter abbreviation only.

Occupation pages show titles stored beside USPS — letter carrier, clerk, retired — as typed. A donor who listed a specific plant or district name is not in these 2,556 people unless the receipt grouped to USPS.

Donor table without rate-case inference

The USPS donor table lists disclosed names, amounts, and recipient committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution. LobbyVault does not attach a postage-rate case, a plant closing, or a motive to that line. Hatch Act limits on some federal employees are outside this page’s facts; the table still records disclosed itemized gifts.

Follow committees on the table for party and office. This guide does not assign a partisan percentage to the abbreviation. Coverage is itemized federal individual receipts only.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $8,027,435, 113,984 contributions, 2,556 donors, top employer USPS. Labels are FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Unitemized gifts, state races, and postal PACs are omitted.

Compare US GOVERNMENT and FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION on the industry index. Occupation breakdowns show titles beside USPS. Cite $8,027,435 from FEC.gov via LobbyVault, not a NAICS postal-service table.

UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE and US GOVERNMENT stay out

USPS as four letters is not UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE, not US POSTAL SERVICE, and not US GOVERNMENT. Those strings sit on other keys. The $8,027,435 total, 113,984 contribution lines, and 2,556 donors describe this abbreviation only. FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION remains a named-agency row. Line volume is high relative to the dollar total.

Unitemized gifts, state races, postal PAC filings, and NAICS 491 postal payroll stay outside the $8,027,435. Occupation pages show titles beside USPS. Former employees who still type the four letters remain in the 2,556. The FEC field is not a postal HR export. Repeat names among 113,984 lines are expected at about 45 receipts per donor.

Open the USPS donor table for disclosed names and committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution, not a postage-rate or plant-closing inference. Cite $8,027,435, 113,984 contributions, and 2,556 donors from FEC.gov via LobbyVault. Labels are FEC employer/occupation self-reports. Do not add US GOVERNMENT to this abbreviation and call the sum a federal-workforce industry.

Researchers who want a postal-family recode must list UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE and US POSTAL SERVICE as separate additions. US GOVERNMENT is a generic federal phrase, not this abbreviation. The $8,027,435 figure does not absorb those rows. It stays on USPS as 2,556 donors and 113,984 lines. Repeat gifts explain the high line count. Follow recipient committees on the USPS donor table. Party share is not computed on the industry headline. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault, self-reported employer text, not NAICS 491 and not a postal PAC.

Questions

How much have USPS-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $8,027,435 to the USPS employer string, from 113,984 contributions and 2,556 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not a postal PAC and not a NAICS postal-service total. Unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted from that figure. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

Is this the same as US GOVERNMENT?

No. US GOVERNMENT is a generic federal-employer string with a separate page. The $8,027,435 total is only receipts whose grouped text is USPS. UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE as typed would be another key. Figures here are limited to that FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault.

Is this Postal Service corporate or union PAC spending?

No. These are itemized individual contributions whose employer text grouped to USPS. Agency and union PAC filings are other FEC categories. Coverage is federal itemized receipts only. Unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted from that $8,027,435 figure on LobbyVault.

Why so many contributions from 2,556 donors?

The 113,984 lines include repeat gifts from the same 2,556 people — on the order of 45 itemized receipts per donor. Recurring itemized programs raise the line count. The FEC field is transactional, not a once-per-employee census. Coverage is itemized federal receipts only.