Letter Carrier contributions received by LETTER CARRIER POLITICAL FUND
25.8% of LETTER CARRIER-coded itemized dollars — $1,492,890 of $5,791,591 — is grouped to NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS OF U.S.A. POLITICAL FUND (LETTER CARRIER POLITICAL FUND) (C00023580). The join covers 47,653 contributions, mean $31. Source is FEC.gov itemized individual aggregates, not independent expenditures. The occupation string is filer-entered and is not a USPS payroll file, an NALC membership roll, or a rural-carrier census.
Key figures
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS OF U.S.A. POLITICAL FUND (LETTER CARRIER POLITICAL FUND) received $1,492,890 from Letter Carrier-coded individual gifts across 47,653 contributions.
- The Letter Carrier occupation grouping totals $5,791,591, so this committee is 25.8% of that labeled money.
- About $31 per contribution is the mean of 47,653 itemized lines, not a unique-person count.
- The join is an FEC occupation–committee intersection, not corporate treasury spending and not USAspending awards.
- Source: FEC.gov itemized individual contribution aggregates. Not independent expenditures.
$1,492,890 grouped to Letter Carrier and C00023580
LETTER CARRIER is the occupation string as stored. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS OF U.S.A. POLITICAL FUND (LETTER CARRIER POLITICAL FUND) is committee C00023580. Postal Worker, Mail Carrier, and Rural Carrier are other keys if FEC stored those phrases separately. Matching rows sum to $1,492,890 across 47,653 contributions. The occupation hub is $5,791,591 to every committee in the aggregate. The committee overlay includes every occupation, not only Letter Carrier. This tie page exists because those two dimensions meet; it is not a restatement of either hub.
This is a high-count cell: 47,653 itemized contributions totaling $1,492,890. High counts usually mean many modest lines, not a unique-person census. Payroll-style PAC deductions and repeat online gifts both inflate contribution counts without appearing in the packet as unique donors.
The recipient is NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS OF U.S.A. POLITICAL FUND (LETTER CARRIER POLITICAL FUND), committee C00023580. Other union PACs are other IDs. Letter Carrier holds the occupation-wide $5,791,591. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS OF U.S.A. POLITICAL FUND (LETTER CARRIER POLITICAL FUND) holds committee C00023580. All occupations and All FEC ties keep the pair in the index. Committee-to-committee transfers and unitemized gifts are outside $1,492,890. Federal awards on USAspending.gov are a different ledger; this page does not claim donations funded awards.
Occupation remainder $4,298,701
The Letter Carrier occupation grouping shows $5,791,591 in itemized individual money. The C00023580 cell is $1,492,890, or 25.8% of that total. The remaining $4,298,701 (74.2%) went to committees other than C00023580. Opening only this tie would hide that remainder.
Letter Carrier keeps the $5,791,591 grouping and its other recipients. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS OF U.S.A. POLITICAL FUND (LETTER CARRIER POLITICAL FUND) keeps C00023580 volume from every occupation. All occupations and All FEC ties list sibling occupation–committee cells so this join is not mistaken for a USPS payroll file, an NALC membership roll, or a rural-carrier census.
Mean $31 is arithmetic
The source note is explicit: these figures are FEC.gov aggregates of itemized individual contributions grouped by occupation and recipient committee, not independent expenditures. Postal Worker, Mail Carrier, and Rural Carrier receipts, if stored separately, are not inside this join. Amended Schedule A filings can move $1,492,890 and $5,791,591. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved.
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS OF U.S.A. POLITICAL FUND (LETTER CARRIER POLITICAL FUND) received $1,492,890 from LETTER CARRIER-coded receipts across 47,653 contributions. Dividing dollars by gifts gives about $31 per contribution. 47,653 lines are not 47,653 unique people. Repeat givers, multiple earmarks, and cycle stacking raise the contribution count. The packet does not publish a unique-donor figure for this cell.
Limits of the occupation stamp
Quote $1,492,890 as 25.8% of $5,791,591 into C00023580, with 47,653 itemized lines, source FEC.gov, and stop there. Do not add sibling occupation keys. Do not fold independent expenditures into the cell. Do not treat 47,653 contributions as a headcount of people currently holding the job. Postal Worker, Mail Carrier, and Rural Carrier are other keys if stored separately.
A 25.8% share of LETTER CARRIER-coded dollars into C00023580 does not mean the occupation caused an election outcome, and it does not mean NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS OF U.S.A. POLITICAL FUND (LETTER CARRIER POLITICAL FUND) is the occupation’s only political destination. A credential-sounding title is still self-reported. Do not treat contribution count as unique practitioners. Occupation and committee are reported together. The overlap is descriptive.
FEC.gov as the source of record
Mean gift $31 is $1,492,890 divided by 47,653 lines. It is not a typical check and not a contribution limit. Later FEC bulk files override this snapshot. Do not add $1,492,890 to $5,791,591. All occupations ranks sibling titles. All FEC ties lists other occupation–committee pages.
A complete claim names Letter Carrier and NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS OF U.S.A. POLITICAL FUND (LETTER CARRIER POLITICAL FUND) (C00023580), then $1,492,890, 47,653 contributions, and 25.8% of $5,791,591, source FEC.gov. Keep both sides of the name whenever the dollars are quoted. The occupation hub still holds $4,298,701 outside this committee. This page isolates the overlap for readers who need both the title and the committee, not either hub restated.
Questions
- How much did Letter Carrier-coded donors give to NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS OF U.S.A?
- FEC.gov aggregates show $1,492,890 grouped to occupation Letter Carrier and received by NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS OF U.S.A. POLITICAL FUND (LETTER CARRIER POLITICAL FUND) (C00023580). That join covers 47,653 itemized contributions. The occupation total across all committees is $5,791,591, so this cell is 25.8%. These figures are not independent expenditures.
- What share of Letter Carrier FEC individual money went to C00023580?
- 25.8% of the $5,791,591 Letter Carrier grouping is in this join: $1,492,890 to C00023580. The remaining $4,298,701 went to other committees. The share describes occupation–committee overlap, not corporate giving and not a unique-donor census.
- Does this include a company PAC or independent expenditures?
- No. The source is itemized individual contributions grouped by occupation and recipient committee. Company PAC documents and independent expenditures are other FEC categories. The cell is $1,492,890 on 47,653 lines. Use the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS OF U.S.A. POLITICAL FUND (LETTER CARRIER POLITICAL FUND) committee hub for other receipt types.
- Where are the live Letter Carrier and NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER C tables?
- Letter Carrier carries the $5,791,591 occupation total. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS OF U.S.A. POLITICAL FUND (LETTER CARRIER POLITICAL FUND) is committee C00023580. All occupations and All FEC ties list sibling joins. This /ties/ page is the Letter Carrier × C00023580 intersection only. Occupation labels are filer-entered. Cite FEC.gov for the underlying receipts.
FEC.gov aggregates of itemized individual contributions grouped by occupation and recipient committee. Not independent expenditures.