USPS

USPS crossed with 2010

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — USPS and 2010 — sum to $321,500. 893 itemized contributions and 457 unique donors produced it. The total is not an official organization disbursement and does not name recipients. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables. USPS is grouped employer text as abbreviated on forms. The 2010 filter keeps receipts in that cycle whose employer field collapsed to this key. It does not verify craft, facility, or federal-employee status.

Neither the USPS hub nor the 2010 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. The USPS hub is the year index for this string. UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE, POSTAL SERVICE, and LETTER CARRIER occupation titles stay on their own keys if filers used them. Postal appropriations and USAspending awards are different files and are not funded by these itemized gifts.

4.0% of the USPS roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $8.0 million ($8,027,435). The 2010 slice of $321,500 is about 4.0% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 96.0%. Treating 2010 as the USPS FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $8,027,435 as the denominator for the 4.0% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, and not proof of a multi-year political program. The industry hub is the year index for this string. This tie keeps 2010 from being folded silently into $8,027,435.

Questions

How much did USPS donors give in 2010?

FEC.gov aggregates show $321,500 in itemized individual contributions for the USPS grouping in the 2010 cycle, across 893 contributions and 457 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $8,027,435 all-cycle figure. Filings remain on FEC.gov. Quote packet facts only.

What share of USPS FEC money is 2010?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $8,027,435. The 2010 cell of $321,500 is about 4.0% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 96.0% on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the USPS hub holds other cycles; the 2010 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Is this USPS’s PAC or an official account?

No. $321,500 is itemized individual receipts whose employer or occupation text grouped to USPS. Committee PAC filings and official organization accounts sit outside this rollup unless an individual receipt itself carries the string. The key is not a U.S. Postal Service appropriation and not a postal union PAC.

Where is the overlay for the USPS 2010 join?

Open Usps 2010 for the cycle overlay, Usps for the grouping hub, and the 2010 election cycle for the year without this employer filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON file names the join; the overlay holds the itemized rows. Original filings remain on FEC.gov.