LETTER CARRIER

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.

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.