USPS
Total Donated
$8,027,435
Contributions
113,984
Unique Donors
2,556
Top Employer
USPS
Contributors who listed USPS on federal itemized receipts account for $8,027,435, according to FEC.gov aggregates on LobbyVault. The cluster is 113,984 contributions from 2,556 donors — a high receipt count relative to the dollar total. USPS is a four-letter agency abbreviation as typed, not a NAICS postal-service total, and not a postal PAC. US GOVERNMENT is a generic federal-employer row, not this abbreviation.
Key figures
- USPS as FEC employer text totals $8,027,435 from 2,556 donors.
- 113,984 contribution lines sit under that four-letter abbreviation — high paperwork volume.
- US GOVERNMENT is a separate generic federal-employer key.
- The label is self-reported form text, not a NAICS postal-service sector.
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.
Full analysis: USPS as FEC employer text: $8.0 million →
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.
Industry labels come from FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Data from FEC.gov via LobbyVault.