File:U.S. Post Office, Downtown Detroit, Michigan from Windsor, Ontario (21772731715).jpg
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DescriptionU.S. Post Office, Downtown Detroit, Michigan from Windsor, Ontario (21772731715).jpg |
The United States Postal Service, also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service, often abbreviated as USPS, is an independent agency of the United States Government responsible for providing postal service in the United States. It is one of the few government agencies explicitly authorized by the United States Constitution. The U.S. Mail traces its roots to 1775 during the Second Continental Congress, where Benjamin Franklin was appointed the first postmaster general. The Post Office Department was created in 1792 from Franklin's operation, elevated to a cabinet-level department in 1872, and transformed in 1971 into the U.S. Postal Service as an agency of the U.S. government. The USPS as of February 2015 has 617,254 active employees and operated 211,264 vehicles in 2014. The USPS is the operator of the largest civilian vehicle fleet in the world. The USPS is legally obligated to serve all Americans, regardless of geography, at uniform price and quality. The USPS has exclusive access to letter boxes marked "U.S. Mail" and personal letterboxes in the United States, but still competes against private package delivery services, such as the United Parcel Service (UPS) and has part use with FedEx Express. The USPS has not directly received taxpayer-dollars since the early 1980s with the exception of subsidies for costs associated with the disabled and overseas voters. Since the 2006 all-time peak mail volume, after which Congress passed the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act, (which mandated $5.5 billion per year to be paid into an account to fully prefund employee retirement health benefits, a requirement exceeding that of other government and private organizations), revenue dropped sharply due to recession-influenced declining mail volume, prompting the postal service to look to other sources of revenue while cutting costs to reduce its budget deficit. The USPS lost US$5.5 billion in fiscal 2014, and its revenue was US$67.8 billion. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_... |
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Source | U.S. Post Office, Downtown Detroit, Michigan from Windsor, Ontario |
Author | Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA |
Camera location | 42° 19′ 05.47″ N, 83° 02′ 55.12″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 42.318186; -83.048645 |
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Ken Lund at https://flickr.com/photos/75683070@N00/21772731715. It was reviewed on 19 December 2016 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-sa-2.0. |
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Camera manufacturer | Canon |
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Camera model | Canon PowerShot SX280 HS |
Exposure time | 1/640 sec (0.0015625) |
F-number | f/5.6 |
ISO speed rating | 80 |
Date and time of data generation | 11:12, 27 September 2015 |
Lens focal length | 32.81 mm |
Latitude | 42° 19′ 4.61″ N |
Longitude | 83° 2′ 56.06″ W |
Altitude | 168.7 meters above sea level |
Orientation | Normal |
Horizontal resolution | 180 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 180 dpi |
File change date and time | 11:12, 27 September 2015 |
Y and C positioning | Co-sited |
Exif version | 2.3 |
Date and time of digitizing | 11:12, 27 September 2015 |
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Image compression mode | 3 |
APEX shutter speed | 9.3125 |
APEX aperture | 4.96875 |
APEX exposure bias | −0.33333333333333 |
Maximum land aperture | 4.96875 APEX (f/5.6) |
Metering mode | Pattern |
Flash | Flash did not fire, compulsory flash suppression |
Supported Flashpix version | 1 |
Color space | sRGB |
Focal plane X resolution | 16,393.442622951 |
Focal plane Y resolution | 16,393.442622951 |
Focal plane resolution unit | inches |
Sensing method | One-chip color area sensor |
File source | Digital still camera |
Custom image processing | Custom process |
Exposure mode | Manual exposure |
White balance | Auto white balance |
Digital zoom ratio | 1 |
Scene capture type | Standard |
GPS time (atomic clock) | 18:12 |
Receiver status | Measurement in progress |
Geodetic survey data used | WGS-84 |
GPS date | 27 September 2015 |
GPS tag version | 0.0.3.2 |
Rating (out of 5) | 0 |