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Did You Know? 90% of worldwide e-mail traffic is spam. (USPS Business Environment Assessment 2009-2013) Did You Know? Take five in Young America, MN. One of its ZIP codes is 55555.Did you know? USPS employees are among nearly 5.5 million postal employees around the worldDid You Know? The top products customers buy through Direct Mail are books and magazines.Did You Know? You can recycle or donate old electronics using earth911.com's recycling locator.Did You Know? Boston lithographer Louis Prang published his first holiday card for customers in 1875.Did You Know? Less than 10% of all American Indian tribal groupings are 65 or older.Did You Know? California leads the nation in the number of American Indian- and Alaska Native-owned firms with more than 38,000.Did You Know? There are 525,800 American Indian and Alaska Native families.Did You Know? November is National American Indian Heritage month.Did You Know? On average, USPS Facilities has more than 700 construction projects on the go nationwideDid You Know? USPS is the only national postal service in the world to have earned International Post Corporation Certificates of Excellence for its international mail processing networkDid You Know? The Postal Service manages the world's largest intranet.Did You Know? The USPS e-mail system delivers more than 9 million messages a dayDid You Know? The Postal Service will handle more than 20 million pounds of military mail during the holidays.Did You Know? About 1-in-5 people in Alaska identify as American Indian and Alaska Native — the highest rate for this race group of any state in the nationDid You Know? Postal customers can purchase stamps at 17,000 banking and credit union ATMs.Did You Know? Latino buying power will surpass $860 billion in 2007 and is projected to exceed $1.2 trillion in five years.Did You Know? There are 1.1 million Hispanic veterans of the U.S. armed forces.Did You Know? There are 32.2 million U.S. household residents age 5 and older who speak Spanish at home.Did You Know? 1 million U.S. residents ages 15 and older report being unable to hearDid You Know? 56 percent of people ages 21 to 64 employed in the past year reported having some type of disability.Did You Know? Nearly 4 million U.S. children ages 6 to 14 have a disability.Did You Know? This year's Hispanic Heritage Month theme is Hispanic Americans Making a Positive Impact on American Society.Did You Know? U.S. Hispanic population ranked 3rd worldwide in 20055, behind Mexico and Colombia.Did You Know? Hispanics are the largest minority at 44.3 million, 15% of U.S, population. Puerto Rico has an additional 3.9 milion residents.Did You Know? September 15 through October 15 is Hispanic Heritage Month.Did You Know? 82% of Americans prefer their bills by mail so they have copies to keep.Did You Know? Upsy-daisy ZIP code: Republic, WA, 99166 is the same upside down.DID YOU KNOW? Bad addresses cost the Postal Service more than $1 billion a year in wasted productivity.Did You Know? Every letter carrier delivers about 2,300 pieces of mail a day.DID YOU KNOW? The longest rural route is 173 miles in Lamont, OK - serving 158 regular boxes.DID YOU KNOW? Letter Carriers average nearly 19,000 steps on a typical workday - more than 7 miles.* *American Council on ExerciseDID YOU KNOW? USPS processes and delivers more than 8,000 pieces of mail per second.* *USPS Postal Facts 2007DID YOU KNOW? usps.com averages nearly 26 million visitors a month.* *USPS Postal Facts 2007DID YOU KNOW? Postal employees pledge an average of $38 million annually to Combined Federal Campaign.* *USPS Postal Facts 2007Did You Know? Asians have the highest proportion of college graduates of any race or group in the country.Did You Know? 14.4 Million Residents are Asian.Did You Know? 26% of blacks age 16 or older work in management, professional and related occupations. (2005 American Community Survey)

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