PUSHING THE ENVELOPE BLOG

The financial losses for the Postal Service continue to grow, totaling nearly $118 billion since FY 2006. USPS temporarily paused contributing to its employees’ pension plan to conserve cash. Unfortunately, there’s no single solution that will right the Postal Service’s fiscal ship. It will take a combination of tough decisions to make a bottom-line difference, likely impacting most, if not all...

In this blog, we look at our efforts across the agency in the fight against mail theft. Our Office of Investigations is on the front lines executing 730 investigations and 237 convictions in the first half of the fiscal year. But our Office of Audit plays an important role too. Learn about our past audits on mail theft, and the efforts the Postal Service and the Postal Inspection Service have made...

The OIG issues audit reports almost every week. Often, we prioritize areas where we believe a review is needed, and sometimes we report important service, operational, or other issues that attract attention from stakeholders and even the media.

Any organization with a computer network is concerned about cybersecurity, and the U.S. Postal Service has one of the world’s largest IT networks. It connects 1.1 million devices and includes 92.5 petabytes of storage. (A petabyte is a million gigabytes.) As cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure continue to increase in frequency and sophistication, keeping networks and data safe from...

Did you know the U.S. Postal Service has a legally mandated program that allows blind or other physically handicapped people to send and receive certain types of mail at no charge? Established more than a century ago — well before the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 — the program is known as Free Matter for the Blind. What qualifies as Free Matter? Large-type (14-point or larger) documents...