Investigative Case Highlights

It started in June 2021: A suspicious package was on its way to southern New Jersey from sunny California. The U.S. Postal Inspection Service seized and searched the 8-lb. parcel, confirming suspicions that it contained illegal drugs. Postal inspectors immediately notified the USPS OIG — sometimes USPS employees get involved in drug trafficking schemes, and that’s something our special agents...

Postal Service careers can be very rewarding, but it takes newcomers — almost a quarter of its current workforce — time to advance to positions that can lock in the next level of benefits. That’s part of the reason “career employees” — the other three quarters of the workforce — see a lot less turnover compared to their counterparts. But there’s a sure way any employee can throw away a hard-earned...

Our partnerships with law enforcement agencies are essential in the fight against mail-related crimes, especially narcotics trafficking. And as drug trafficking organizations (DTOs) have grown more sophisticated in their use of the U.S. Mail for their distribution networks, concerted efforts against them are now more important than ever. A recently closed case highlights how successful...

In a February edition of Investigative Case Highlights, we mentioned how criminals use their access to facilitate their greed. It seems the greater the access to resources, the greater the temptation to compromise them. Some positions within the U.S. Postal Service provide employees more access than others. And it takes one person, one single point of compromise to criminally disrupt the system...

Our investigative work covers a range of areas including mail theft, healthcare provider and claimant fraud, and contract and financial fraud. But when one considers the nation’s growing opioids crisis, perhaps no other area has so much at stake as our dedicated Narcotics program.We launched the program in 2016 to identify and investigate the possession and distribution of narcotics by Postal...