Reiterate to Bon Air Branch, Southside Station, and Montrose Heights Station unit management and personnel the requirements to secure accountable items, properly manage cash and inventory, and conduct financial reviews.
$6,120
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Agree
2
Instruct Bon Air Branch, Southside Station, and Montrose Heights Station unit management to train all retail employees on receipt, documentation, and retention of stamp stock and money order transfers.
$0
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Agree
3
Improve the current bank deposit storing process followed at the Bon Air Branch.
$0
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4
Reiterate to Montrose Heights Station management and personnel the policy prohibiting the sharing of Retail Systems Software passwords and direct unit management to require unit personnel to change compromised passwords.
$0
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5
Direct unit management at Bon Air Branch to perform duplicate key examinations and update PS Forms 3977, Duplicate Key, Combination and Password Envelopes, as appropriate.
$0
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6
Reiterate to unit management at Southside Station the policy for handling nonmail items.
$0
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7
Reiterate the requirement for field unit managers at the Bon Air Branch, Southside Station, and Montrose Heights Station to review daily financial reports to verify transactions are accurate, properly witnessed, and supported.
$7,713
Closed
Agree
8
Direct management at Bon Air Branch and Southside Station to maintain appropriate documentation to demonstrate actions taken to research and resolve financial differences expensed to the unit including bank deposits differences and employee items.
$26,152
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Agree
9
Direct Bon Air Branch unit management to instruct close out personnel to follow procedures for preparing and witnessing bank deposits.
$0
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10
Direct Bon Air Branch unit management to order bank deposit slips through the Postal Service's national contract.
Modify Postal Service policy on PC Postage to include parameters surrounding the transfer of merchants to Channel Partner meters.
$0
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2
Enhance and implement internal controls that provide the Postal Service with visibility into merchant activity on Channel Partner meters.
$0
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3
Develop mechanisms to directly identify the end shipper for each package and enforce non-compliance.
$0
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4
Develop and formalize a technical process, which includes the detailed calculation of all chargeback opportunities for Channel Partners and a quality assurance process, and (2) consider retroactively calculating and invoicing Resellers for the correct chargeback amounts for previous periods.
$0
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5
Develop mechanisms to identify trends and risks in the composition of price tiers.
Implement updates to the Fuel Asset Management System to flag premium fuel transactions as high-risk on the Reconciliation Exception report.
$5,066,930
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Agree
2
Deactivate remaining personal identification numbers with improper names.
$0
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3
Deactivate or update personal identification numbers with missing employee identification numbers.
$0
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4
Enhance controls in Fleet Commander Online to prevent prohibit zeros from being entered as employee identification numbers and disallow site managers from certifying semiannual reviews of personal identification numbers with employee identification numbers that are blanks or all zeros.
Develop a plan to complete the
evaluation and implementation of a solution that will provide visibility over mail
movement in Alaska.
$0
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2
Require shippers to schedule appointments to tender bypass mail to air carriers and have Postal Service officials perform mail and postage verification.
$0
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3
Establish a standard weight threshold for the verification of shipments by air carriers.
$0
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4
Backfill the network specialist position so that air carrier performance is monitored and reviewed timely and corrective action is initiated when necessary.
$0
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5
Establish a review and approval process for air carrier payments and provide oversight to ensure air carrier payments are timely and accurate. Additionally, initiate recovery of the overpayments paid to air carriers.
$346,649
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Agree
6
Issue supplemental guidance to the air carriers to remind them to submit claims within 30 days and provide written documentation to the air carrier when a claim is not submitted timely.
$0
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7
Coordinate with the Postal Service Headquarters Finance group to establish separate general ledger accounts for bypass mail program costs.
Strengthen final reconciliation processes for all costs and revenue associated with COVID-19 test kit distribution to ensure accuracy of accounting and reimbursement or payment to the Department of Health and Human Services.
$0
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2
Some or all of the recommendation is not publicly available due to concerns with information protected under the Freedom of Information Act.
$0
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3
Some or all of the recommendation is not publicly available due to concerns with information protected under the Freedom of Information Act.
To provide refresher TACS disallowance of time policy training to all postal service employees responsible for disallowing time and determine the frequency of training and retention time for TACS training documents.
$0
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2
Develop a formal process to ensure supervisors and managers perform periodic reviews of disallowed timecard documentation for completeness in TACS.
$0
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3
Resolve system deficiencies that allow supervisors to bypass completing the time disallowance record by implementing system controls to ensure all required fields are completed once the affected employee is notified.
Re-enforce policies for completing daily all clears, utilizing the Operational Clean Sweep Checklist, and requiring Election Mail to be postmarked at P&DCs.
$0
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Agree
2
Some or all of the recommendation is not publicly available due to concerns with information protected under the Freedom of Information Act.
$0
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Agree
3
Establish a policy to retain data on ballots with barcode tracking that are excluded from measurement and continue working with mailers of Election Mail to identify why ballots are excluded.
