Local Purchases and Payments: Miscellaneous Services - Ellensburg, WA, Main Post Office
Background
This report presents the results of our self-initiated audit of Local Purchases and Payments: Miscellaneous Services – Ellensburg, WA, Main Post Office (MPO). The Ellensburg MPO is in the Seattle District of the Western Area. This audit was designed to provide U.S. Postal Service management with timely information on potential financial control risks at Postal Service locations.
The U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) data analytics identified districts with high amounts of local purchases and payments recorded to account identifier code (AIC) 587, Miscellaneous Services, which were paid by cash or money order. Based on our data analysis for fiscal year (FY) 2019, we identified that the Ellensburg MPO had local purchases and payments totaling $8,041. Local purchases for miscellaneous services for Ellensburg MPO increased 106 percent from FY 2018. In addition, the MPO’s FY 2019 local purchases and payments total was 11 percent of the Seattle District’s FY 2019 total of $71,916.
Our objective was to determine whether local purchases and payments made at the Ellensburg MPO were valid and properly supported and processed.