USPS and the 2010 FEC election cycle

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.

893 contributions from 457 donors

Dividing $321,500 by 893 contributions yields about $360 per itemized gift. Dividing by 457 donors yields about $704 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 2.0. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

457 unique donors are contributor identities, not a headcount of employees, licensees, or members. Retirees and household members who reuse a workplace or title can appear. Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count. The overlay for Usps 2010 holds the rows.

2010 as the cycle dimension

The 2010 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. USPS is one cell in that matrix. This packet does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. Open the 2010 election cycle to drop the employer filter and Usps to drop the year.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $321,500 cell because the cycle is a two-year tag, not a single Tuesday. That mechanical fact is easy to forget when a searcher wants an election-night number. The overlay is where dates become visible. This join publishes the cycle total, the 893 contributions, the 457 unique donors, and the 4.0% share of $8,027,435.

Limits of the USPS × 2010 join

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $321,500. Federal awards in other databases are different datasets. Sharing an employer string and a calendar year does not turn these gifts into contracts or grants. The page is not a U.S. Postal Service appropriation and not a postal union PAC.

Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 457 donors, and 893 contributions. UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE, U.S. POSTAL SERVICE, POSTAL SERVICE, and LETTER CARRIER are other keys if stored separately. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing USPS and 2010 together

Start with $321,500, then Usps 2010 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2010 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: USPS, 2010, $321,500, 893 contributions, 457 donors, 4.0% of $8,027,435, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 4.0% share, the 457-donor count, and the $360 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them onto a successor label or a sibling occupation word and they stop being facts from this packet. This prose is a packet snapshot. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov and the live overlay control.

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.