By Bill Cieslewicz – March 6, 2018 The U.S. Postal Service is planning to hire 70 employees in Cincinnati next week. The Postal Service is looking to fill up to 70 part-time carrier assistant positions in most Cincinnati stations and branch offices. Starting salary for the positions that could lead to full time is $16.78…
USPS wants you to know about recent updates to Form W-4 and the Internal Revenue Service’s online withholding calculator. Last week, the IRS released a new version of Form W-4, Employee’s Withholding Allowance Certificate, which is used to determine an employee’s federal income tax withholding. The IRS didn’t make significant changes to the form itself….
By Bill McAllister – March 7, 2018 Sometime later this year, Postmaster General Megan J. Brennan is likely to head to Oregon for an unusual dedication. What she will be formally opening will be one of the largest mail-processing plants the United States Postal Service has created in an era of declining letter volume. The…
BACKGROUND: The objective of this audit is to determine whether internal controls for issuing permit postage and fee refunds were in place and effective at the Palm Coast, FL, Branch. The U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General (OIG) Field Financial Risk Model identified that the Palm Coast Branch refund and void amounts for fiscal…
RARC-WP-18-004 – March 5, 2018 First-Class Mail is the Postal Service’s biggest provider of revenue and contribution. However, its portion of overall postal revenues has fallen from over 60 percent in the late 1970s to just 40 percent in 2016. Depending on whether key historical trends continue, intensify, or weaken, the future of correspondence mail…
Attached is an Operations Update given by Chief Operating Officer David Williams on 2-27-2018. He covered Service Performance (which is down from SPLY); expanding Automated Delivery Unit Package Sorters to more offices; the installation of an enormous new Enhanced Package Processing System in the Portland OR P&DC that will process 25,000 packages per hour; and…
