General crimes include Postal Service employees’ misuse of Postal Service computers, destruction or theft of Postal Service property, falsification of official documents and forgery, theft of funds, abuse of authority, sabotage of operations, narcotics use or sale of drugs while on duty, and alcohol abuse.
During fiscal year 2019, OIG special agents completed 477 general crimes investigations, resulting in 30 arrests, 27 indictments/informations, 31 convictions, 365 administrative actions, and more than $123,000 in recovered funds for the Postal Service.
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 U.S. Postal Service’s Customer Service and Delivery Operations units are the heartbeat of the entire operation. More than 400,000 employees process, sort, and deliver 140 billion letters and flats and 6.4 billion packages annually, relying on technology, such as handheld scanners, to assist...
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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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