“I find that the appropriate make-whole remedy would be the amount of overtime, if any, of which the affected employees as a group were deprived. This amount, as discussed above, was susceptible to reasonable, quantifiable determination. The Union’s requested remedies do not reflect a loss of overtime to the affected group of employees. I therefore decline…
DES MOINES, Iowa — When it comes to incompetence, losing money and union muscle-flexing, the U.S. Postal Service always delivers. A recently released audit by the USPS Office of Inspector General shows Postal Service officials failed to follow proper procedures and wildly overestimated potential savings when it awarded a contract for mailbox maintenance in 18 states…
Kirk Gardino of Ankeny figured something was wrong. He did the math and it didn’t add up after the financially strapped U.S. Postal Service awarded a major contract to a private company to maintain and change locks on clustered mailboxes in Iowa and 17 other states. The multiple boxes are used for mail sent to…
“The whistleblower came forward with his concerns, I asked for an investigation, and the investigation found the whistleblower was right,” Grassley said. WASHINGTON – A new report requested by Sen. Chuck Grassley on a tip from an Iowa whistleblower confirms the U.S. Postal Service mishandled $18.4 million in contract payments to maintain and change the…
Audit Report – SM-AR-14-005 – 06/04/2014 BACKGROUND: U.S. Postal Service maintenance mechanics traditionally have repaired and changed locks for Postal Service-owned mailboxes. To reallocate maintenance mechanics from the field to mail processing facilities, Western Area Maintenance Operations asked Supply Management to contract this work. The Postal Service awarded a contract to Diebold, Inc. on September…
