Love Your Back: Learn to Lift Safely Recent data indicates that the most frequently injured body part is the back because of lifting and carrying on the job. That is why the United States Postal Service® encourages employees to apply safe lifting practices to their daily tasks. When discussing how to prevent back injuries, the…
May 17, 2022 KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A Lee’s Summit, Mo., woman was sentenced in federal court today for fraudulently claiming reimbursements for travel expenses for her work for the U.S. Postal Service. Monique S. Koger-Little, 48, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Bough to one year and three months in federal prison…
May 16, 2022 PHOENIX — In his keynote address opening this year’s National Postal Forum, Postmaster General and CEO Louis DeJoy shared his strategic vision for the future of the U.S. Postal Service. “We see a proud Postal Service organization, operating with precision, covering its costs and planning its future as the laws passed by…
May 16, 2022 When the Los Angeles International Service Center was required to move — and to simultaneously consolidate functions that were normally handled at another location — USPS engineers were tasked with finding a way to make it so. The former center was roughly 25,000 square feet and responsible for accepting incoming international mail…
Background This report presents the results of our self-initiated audit of the Efficiency of Operations at the Indianapolis Processing and Distribution Center (P&DC) in Indianapolis, IN (Project Number 22-080). We conducted this audit to provide U.S. Postal Service management with timely information on operational risks at this P&DC. We judgmentally selected the Indianapolis P&DC based…
Verifying identity credentials that individuals provide online, such as name, address, and Social Security Number (SSN), is increasingly important as government experiences higher identity fraud levels. Several potential roles exist for the Postal Service to contribute to government efforts to create and implement more secure identity verification systems. The emergency disbursement of trillions of dollars…
Now that the APWU national election of officers is underway, one can be assured that “non-political travel” to local and state meetings and conventions by national officers will accelerate to the max. Since retiree chapters have been placed under draconian restrictions on our membership rosters, the contradiction is obvious and ridiculous. So it goes! First…
May 13, 2022 The Postal Service wants employees to remember the differences between Election Mail and Political Mail. Election Mail describes mail — to or from election officials — that allows individuals to participate in the voting process. Examples include ballots for domestic or international delivery, voter registration cards, absentee ballot applications and polling place…
