CheckbookBudget line

What has the City spent on Mail Services?

$35.4M across 9,378 payments, July 5, 2017 to September 9, 2026 — 463 purchase orders and 26 vendors, run by General Services.

Checkbook LA · Through Sep 9, 2026

As published: MAIL SERVICES

Spans more than one contract

This budget line has run for 10 fiscal years across 463 separate purchase orders. A single payment in the register shows none of that — the commitment outlives any one order, and the orders are how it gets renewed.

$35.4MTotal spent
463Purchase orders
26Vendors
88%Largest vendor's share

Spending by fiscal year

FY2017-18
$4.2M
FY2018-19
$3.8M
FY2019-20
$3.6M
FY2020-21
$3.2M
FY2021-22
$3.6M
FY2022-23
$3.9M
FY2023-24
$4.1M
FY2024-25
$4.2M
FY2025-26
$4.3M
FY2026-27 *
$486K

* FY2026-27 is still in progress — not a full year. Same point of FY2025-26 (payments dated through Sep 9, 2025): $1.1M.

Who was paid

The 25 largest of 26 vendors on this line.

Under which orders

The 40 largest of 463 purchase orders booked to this line.

42 payments · August 20, 2024 to July 28, 2025

41 payments · August 24, 2023 to August 20, 2024

50 payments · July 27, 2017 to June 25, 2018

53 payments · July 27, 2022 to August 24, 2023

35 payments · August 27, 2025 to July 16, 2026

45 payments · August 31, 2018 to July 12, 2019

55 payments · August 19, 2021 to September 26, 2022

47 payments · September 24, 2019 to June 5, 2020

41 payments · September 10, 2020 to August 19, 2021

1,024 payments · September 7, 2023 to October 9, 2024

931 payments · July 22, 2021 to September 12, 2022

3 payments · July 5, 2017 to July 5, 2017

937 payments · September 24, 2020 to February 7, 2022

650 payments · August 22, 2017 to July 26, 2018

930 payments · August 24, 2018 to July 8, 2019

1,003 payments · August 2, 2019 to July 1, 2020

774 payments · August 27, 2025 to September 9, 2026

547 payments · September 12, 2022 to May 19, 2023

2 payments · September 8, 2026 to September 8, 2026

660 payments · October 9, 2024 to August 27, 2025

3 payments · September 10, 2020 to June 3, 2021

2 payments · August 31, 2021 to January 7, 2022

127 payments · February 1, 2024 to December 31, 2025

268 payments · June 2, 2023 to September 7, 2023

6 payments · June 24, 2022 to June 24, 2022

3 payments · July 11, 2018 to April 22, 2019

2 payments · September 11, 2019 to April 3, 2020

3 payments · September 13, 2019 to June 5, 2020

4 payments · August 17, 2021 to August 17, 2021

1 payment · October 20, 2017 to October 20, 2017

58 payments · September 24, 2020 to February 18, 2022

55 payments · August 5, 2021 to August 29, 2022

107 payments · July 14, 2017 to August 22, 2017

6 payments · June 24, 2022 to June 24, 2022

51 payments · July 19, 2019 to July 1, 2020

3 payments · June 9, 2026 to June 9, 2026

16 payments · May 3, 2023 to February 1, 2024

10 payments · May 26, 2023 to May 26, 2023

28 payments · December 31, 2025 to July 9, 2026

21 payments · August 12, 2024 to August 12, 2024

Sources

LA Controller, Checkbook LA (pggv-e4fn), totalled nightly. Grouped by account_name, the budget line a payment is booked against — populated on every row, and the most useful field for understanding what a payment actually bought. Back to the checkbook.