The US Postal Service today filed its August 2010 (unaudited) preliminary financial report with the Postal Regulatory Commission. USPS reported a net income/loss of $1.6 billion. The total Fiscal Year to Date loss is $7.7 billion (July, $764 Million; June, $2.5 Billion; May, $642;$382 lost for April; $381 lost for month of March; $611 Million lost in February; $592 million lost for the month of January, $179 Million gain the month of December; $255 million lost for November; $221 Million lost the month of October)

Total Mail Services Volume was up 1.8%, revenue down 1.3%
Total Shipping Services volume was up 3.6%, revenue up 3.7%
Total Mail volume was up 1.8%, revenue down by 0.7%

First class volume down 6.4%, revenue down 7.0%
Standard Mail volume up by 11.0%, revenue up 9.8%

Total Workhours was down 3.0% (City Carriers 2.6%, Mail Processing, 6.8%, Customer Services 6.5%, Rural Delivery up by 0.6%, Other down 0.1%)

Total Career Employees 585,347, down 1,515 employees since July 2010
Total Non-Career Employees 88,139, down 81 employees since July 2010

see full report via Postal Regulatory Commission