Suppliers

The Postal Service is committed to helping external stakeholders adopt and improve their sustainability business practices. It has three supplier-focused goals to expand sustainability through its extended supply chain. These are to reduce contract transportation petroleum fuel use 20 percent by 2020; to require suppliers with current contract commitments of more than $500,000 to provide sustainability data; and to include standard sustainability clauses in new contracts.

Nearly 57 percent of the Postal Service’s petroleum fuel spend is associated with contract transportation providers.