Audit Report – DR-AR-14-008 – 09/02/2014 Introduction This report presents the results of our self-initiated audit of the U.S. Postal Serviceâs Post Office Relocation Process (Project Number 14XG005DR000). Our objective was to assess the Postal Serviceâs process for relocating Post Office retail operations to other facilities. See Appendix A for additional information about this audit….
Letter carriers and other postal employees have been saying for several years that changes at the Postal Service would lead to more job-related industries. A new report suggests they may be right. “Despite the Postal Serviceâs efforts to decrease the number of employees [by 19% since 2008], its workersâ compensation costs have increased 35 percent,â…
Last year, $1 billion of Postal Service money went to recipients of workers compensation. But the rules that govern how agencies compensate federal employees when they’re hurt on the job haven’t changed since 1974. Monique Colter is an audit director for the Office of Inspector General at the U.S. Postal Service. On In Depth with…
White Papers – HR-WP-14-003 08/18/2014 Executive Summary Enacted in 1916, the Federal Employeesâ Compensation Act (FECA) provides medical, compensation, death, and vocational rehabilitation benefits to civilian federal employees who sustain injuries â including occupational disease â because of their employment with the federal government. The U.S. Congress amended FECA in 1974 to provide continuation of…
Network Consolidation Reboot Itâs baaack. Network consolidation will return in January 2015, a year after going on hiatus. The U.S. Postal Service announced recently that it would resume consolidations, closing up to 82 mail processing facilities. This second phase of the network consolidations should be done prior to the 2015 fall mailing season. The Postal…
Audit Report – DR-MA-14-006 – 08/14/2014Background The U.S. Postal Service is developing and pilot testing the Delivery Management System to improve carrier efficiency during street delivery. This system combines Global Positioning System data and other data from various systems to allow supervisors to see âat a glanceâ the location of each carrier and whether they…
(August 15, 2014) Allegations of intentional delays at the Cape Girardeau mail processing facility prompted a letter from U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt on Thursday to postmaster general Patrick Donahoe. “Missourians are rightly concerned about possibly delayed or misdirected mail, and I write to express my concern about the reports and request future updates on the…
Message from the Inspector General For almost 240 years, the United States Postal Service has provided the nation with a secure, universally accessible platform for commerce and communications. The Postal Service has built a brand that customers, suppliers, and employees trust to protect the privacy and security of their information, whether it is their mail…
