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As a comparison:

Walmart had 2.3 million worldwide and 1.4 million in the US as of 2016.

FedEx globally had 400k+ as of the end of 2016.

USPS had 493,381 career employees 131,732 non-career employees as of January 2016.

This is a really interesting comparison. Probably a better comparison than Microsoft or Google, as is done in the article.

Why? In this case, the majority of these employees are likely not in tech roles, but in various parts of the fulfillment pipeline. That makes them more similar to FedEx or Walmart.

Edit: Disregard this, I can't read.

Yup, that's... exactly what they said.

Ah, I entirely misread that as "probably a better comparison is" instead of "than".

Whoops.

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