People love lists.
Our annual blog listing the top ten postal stories of the just-completed year is always a reader favorite — even if a little later than usual this year. This year, as in many past years, we had plenty of topics to choose from. What made this year a little unusual was just how many prominent postal stories were in the news — and for a long time. We expect to hear more about several of the topics below in 2019.
The U.S. Postal Service has an obligation to ensure the safety of its employees by creating and maintaining a violence-free work environment. Our recent audit work confirmed that the Postal Service has a comprehensive program to identify, review, report, and address employee assaults.
Postal Service employees who have been assaulted can take one or more of the following actions based on the circumstances:
There was a time when, if you lived in Spokane, Bing Crosby might have sold you stamps across a post office counter. If you lived in Chicago, Walt Disney might have delivered your mail – or maybe Rock Hudson, if you were just up the road in nearby Winnetka. More recently, before he starred in The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Steve Carell might have put letters in your mailbox if it was in rural Massachusetts. And have you ever wondered where the Grammy-winning John Prine got the title for his album The Singing Mailman Delivers?
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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