USPS: Ethics rules apply to outside employment with contract route contractors

June 26, 2023 The Postal Service wants employees to know that there are ethics rules to consider before accepting work with highway contract route or contract delivery service contractors. A highway contract route, or HCR, is a mail transportation contract. A contract delivery service, or CDS, is a mail delivery service. USPS employees may not…

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Ethics rules apply after leaving USPS

June 12, 2023 The Postal Service wants to remind employees that ethics rules apply even after someone retires or leaves the organization for other employment. The rules mainly address two concerns: when former employees can interact with USPS on behalf of new employers, and how current and former employees may interact with each other. Post-employment…

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USPS reminds employees they may not run for partisan office

March 15, 2023 The Postal Service is reminding employees they may not run for partisan office. A partisan election is one in which any candidate in the race represents a political party. This Hatch Act rule applies to partisan elections at the federal, state and local levels. It also applies to employees who are on…

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Postal Service reminds employees that federal anti-nepotism rules apply at USPS.

February 15, 2023 The Postal Service would like to remind employees that federal anti-nepotism rules apply at USPS. Employees are forbidden to directly or indirectly appoint, employ, promote or advance a relative. Advocating for such actions on behalf of a relative is also prohibited. A spouse, parent, child, sibling, aunt, uncle, first cousin, niece, nephew,…

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USPS: Ethics Awareness Week – Aug. 15-19

August 12, 2022 The Postal Service is holding Ethics Awareness Week from Aug. 15-19 to educate employees about the importance of conducting themselves with integrity. Postal employees hold positions of public trust. The organization is routinely voted as the most trusted government organization. “Losing the public’s trust affects the business because postal customers have the…

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