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Jan 24th

OIG: USPS Northern Virginia District Used More Workhours Than Necessary To Deliver Mail

Highlights from the USPS OIG Audit Report – City Delivery Efficiency Review – Northern Virginia District   Background Delivery operations are the Postal Service’s largest operational function, accounting for approximately 45 percent of salary expenses and workhours. Despite an annual increase of approximately 1 million delivery points, delivery operations used 36.5 million fewer workhours in […]

Jan 4th

OIG: USPS Fails to Justify 19 Types of 'Worksharing' Discounts for Big Mailers

In a report issued Dec. 23, 2010, the USPS Inspector General’s Office (OIG) echoed what the APWU has been saying for years: Worksharing discounts for large mailers mail are too high. The OIG’s study (Report Number MS-AR-11-001 [PDF]) echoed the results of a March 2010 report by the Postal Regulatory Commission [PDF], which concluded that […]

Nov 24th

OIG: USPS Could Have Saved $122 Million In FY 2009 By Using Lower Costs Employees To Deliver Mail

Postal Service could have avoided paying almost 7 million of the 28 million overtime hours for full-time city letter carriers Our analysis identified that, during FY 2009, city delivery supervisors scheduled full-time city delivery carriers to use overtime hours to deliver the mail on city routes. Management actually expended overtime hours at a cost of […]

Nov 6th

Vermont Postmaster Gets Probation In Mail Case

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A former Vermont postmaster has been fined $250 and put on probation for one year for obstructing the mail. Frank J. Strzelec, former officer in charge of the Center Rutland Post Office, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of obstructing the passage of mail. Federal prosecutors say that in late 2009, […]

Oct 22nd

Amazon.com quietly settles mysterious postal investigation

Amazon.com disclosed in January 2009 that it was the subject of a mysterious investigation by the U.S. Postal Service. Neither Amazon not the Postal Service said what the investigation was about, though some interesting theories popped up. Now Amazon in its latest quarterly financial filing with the SEC says the investigation was closed last month […]

Oct 20th

USPS Office Of Inspector General's Audit Plan For 2011

The USPS Office Of Inspector General’s 2011 Audit Plan A few highlights: The Financial Risk category pertains to the critical financial risk the Postal Service faces as it, like other companies, deals with the economic slowdown affecting the nation. Factors exacerbating financial risk include the crisis in the financial industry, increases in energy costs, significant […]

Sep 29th

OIG: The Postal Service Can Survive at Lower Levels Of Mail Volume

The Office of Inspector General asked George Mason University School of Public Policy (GMU) to look at the financial sustainability of the Postal Service at lower levels of mail volume. Here are excerpts from the report: Annual mail volume peaked in 2006 at 213 billion pieces. Since then, the number of mail pieces has declined […]

Sep 28th

Senator Collins says USPS Should Get Spending Under Control Before Raising Rates

Maine Sen. Susan Collins is taking the U.S. Postal Service to task for spending she says is unwarranted at a time when the service is seeking to raise rates. In a speech on the Senate floor, Collins cited an Inspector General’s report, which she says indicates that spending in some areas is out of line. “Its […]

Sep 27th

Senator Collins: OIG Audit Shows Stunning Evidence Of Excessive Postal Execs Perks

Finds It Unbelievbable That USPS Covers 100 Percent Of Health Insurance For 835 Top Execs           WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Postal Service pays 100 percent of health insurance premiums for 835 of its top employees, an expensive perk that occurs at no other federal agency, Senator Susan Collins, Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland […]

Sep 24th

OIG: USPS Noncompliant, Insufficiently Supported Contracts Totaled $218,940,344

Excerpts from a report issued by the USPS Office of Inspector General: We also found that 24 of the 68 (or 35 percent) of the noncompetitive contracts we reviewed were not sufficiently supported per Postal Service policy. Policies contain minimum requirements for noncompetitive justifications, market research, and endorsement and approval requirements. Compliance with these requirements […]