USPS: Reminder offered on holiday gift exchanges

The Postal Service is reminding employees to proceed with caution when exchanging gifts. Generally, an employee shouldn’t give a gift to a manager or higher-paid colleague. Likewise, a gift shouldn’t be accepted from a subordinate or lower-paid employee. There are exceptions. For example, a non-cash gift worth $10 or less to a manager on birthdays,…

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USPS teams with Google Cloud for call center relief

By Dave Nyczepir – December 12, 2019 The U.S. Postal Service plans to reduce wait times on about 80 million customer calls fielded annually through a partnership with Google Cloud announced Thursday. USPS awarded Carahsoft — Google Cloud’s authorized distributor for public sector clients — a cloud contract with a $50 million ceiling covering customer…

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USPS OIG Report: Compensation, Benefit, and Bonus Authority in CY 2018

Objective Our objective was to determine whether the U.S. Postal Service complied with applicable maximum total compensation provisions of the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 (PAEA), related Postal Service policies and guidelines, and related U.S. Internal Revenue Service regulations in calendar year (CY) 2018. For CY 2018, the annual salary of each Postal…

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