Payments to the Postal Service

In 2008 and 2009, the State of Illinois paid the United States Postal Service $2,067,117.60 in total. The table below breaks down the payments by department. In 2008 and 2009, the department with the largest payments to USPS was the Department of Healthcare and Family Services, spending more than $460,000 and $596,000. In 2009, the Department of Corrections, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, and Department on Aging each spent more than $100,000 for products and services from the USPS. Many of the charges are what one would expect, such as "postage and postal charges," bulk meter permits, business reply permits, and rental charges for P.O. boxes. But there are also some charges with vague descriptions such as "contractual services" and "prof & artistic services."

To find these entries on the IllinoisOpenGov.org site, go to "Checks to Businesses & People" and type in "U S Postal Service" and "US Postal Service" in the vendor field. The data on the site may appear slightly different than the data in the table below due to rounding. To see the data used in the table, download the search results by clicking on the Excel or CSV icon below the results.

 

Department	Year	Total
Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity	2008	$47,244.53
	2009	$1,105.00
Department of Corrections	2008	$40,486.20
	2009	$303,998.10
Department of Employment Security	2008	$6,465.00
Department of Healthcare and Family Services	2008	$467,740.65
	2009	$596,049.00
Department of Labor	2009	$6,851.24
Department of Military Affairs	2009	$538.00
Department of Transportation	2009	$252,503.88
Department of Veteran Affairs	2008	$58,190.00
	2009	$18,800.00
Department on Aging	2009	$100,360.00
Dept of Financial and Professional Regulation	2009	$166,786.00
Subtotal	2008	$620,126.38
Subtotal	2009	$1,446,991.22
Grand Total		$2,067,117.60