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The latest annual report for the United States Postal Inspection Service, the law enforcement branch of the Postal Service, revealed that 201 suicides were reported in its fiscal year 2023.
That’s more than quadruple the 47 suicides reported by the Postal Inspection Service in fiscal year 2022.
And it’s more than double the national suicide rate for the general population of 14.2 deaths per 100,000 people, according to 2022 figures.) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Postal Inspection Service qualifies all of its crime figures — from burglaries to robberies to homicides, suicides and assaults — by saying in the report, “Though not all of these reports are credible, the Inspection Service takes all reports of violent crime seriously and responds to every reported incident.”
Based on the Postal Service’s reported 635,350 total career and non-career employees in 2023, the suicide rate for postal employees would be about 31.6 per 100,000 people, if all 201 reported suicides involved Postal Service employees.