Postage stamps, records manipulation, and a clandestine call to report suspicions. It has the makings of a good series to binge watch on a rainy weekend.
Instead, it’s a recent audit report on improving the controls around stamp stock at postal retail outlets. And it started with a call to our Hotline to report suspicious transactions involving stolen stamps from a Louisiana postal station.
Blame it on the rain. Or the heat, or the snow. Weather, it seems, has an impact on the U.S. Postal Service’s productivity. Geographic regions with extreme climate – other things being equal – have lower productivity than moderate climate regions.
Climate isn’t the only regional factor. Cost of living and terrain ruggedness also have an impact on the productivity in a region.
The U.S. Postal Service owns roughly 8,400 properties and leases more than 23,000 others with annual rents totaling more than $800 million. Yet, the Postal Service has “excess space” — property or space not used or needed.
Our Hotline was launched in August 1997, shortly after our agency was established, to provide a vital communications link between the OIG and Postal Service stakeholders. The Hotline allows us to receive complaints from employees, customers, and the public.
Complaints include alleged...
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It’s slightly ironic that a system centered on delivering hard copy communications has one of the world’s largest Information Technology (IT) infrastructures.
But once you consider that the U.S. Postal Service has more than 31,000 retail locations, hundreds of thousands of employees, and...
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An executive for a large pharmaceuticals company found out the hard way that crime doesn’t pay. Now he is looking at hard time – 33 months, to be exact.
The former vice president of managed markets for Insys Therapeutics...
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The Postal Service uses the Time and Attendance Collection System (TACS) to capture the number of workhours employees spend working various post office operations. Employees record the time and operations they work by swiping electronic timecards on an electronic badge reader. Postal Service ...
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The Postal Service has the resources, network infrastructure, and logistical capabilities to regularly deliver to every residential and business address in the nation. To help accomplish this, the Postal Service has one of the world’s largest IT networks, linking more than 31,000 retail...
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The Postal Service purchases a wide variety of IT equipment such as computers, security cameras, and printers. The equipment is procured by contract or credit card. All purchase requisitions must be processed in eBuy2. The eBuy2 application is used for web-based ordering, management approval,...
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