BOSTON – Some United States Postal Service locations are being audited after reports allege unauthorized timecard adjustments were made at selected post offices in the Greater Boston area.
The audit comes after a 25 Investigates piece exposed post office managers were being suspected of cheating workers out of overtime pay.
During a two-year period, the inspector general found postal facilities in the Boston area had more than 5,000 records of disapproved time, which involved hundreds of employees and supervisors.
Based on issues found for disallowed time adjustments, USPS also reviewed an additional 50 timecard adjustments involving deleted clock rings and extended lunch times.
The audit finds that supervisors in the Boston area did not systemically adjust timecards according to the company’s policies.
Investigators found forms supporting disallowed time adjustments were not completed or were missing key required information, such as the date the supervisor notified the employee or the reason for disallowing the time.
In addition, the investigation found supervisors at one location deleted 30 employee clock rings and extended 20 employee lunch times without any supporting documentation to justify the adjustment.
Source: Certain Boston USPS offices under audit for alleged timecard manipulations | Boston 25 News
What the OIG Found
Supervisors in the Greater Boston District did not systemically adjust timecards in accordance with Postal Service policy. Specifically, 89 percent (177 of 199) of PS Forms 1017-A for 177 were not completed or maintained as required when employee time is disallowed. Of the 22 forms received, 50 percent (or 11) were missing key required information, such as the date the supervisor notified the employee and/or the reason for disallowing the time. In addition, we determined supervisors at one facility deleted 30 employee clock rings and extended 20 employee lunch times without any supporting documentation to justify the adjustment. Further, we referred these issues to our Office of Investigation.
These issues occurred because supervisors were not sufficiently trained in proper procedures for disallowing time, deleting clock rings, and extending lunch times; and district and facility management did not adequately oversee facility supervisors to ensure that they performed these actions properly.
In addition, there was no formal process in place to review and monitor timecard adjustments to ensure supervisors completed forms as required.
Improperly removing employee time could lead to grievances or subject the Postal Service to fines and penalties, according to the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Department of Labor. We identified 470 hours that equated to $20,345 in unpaid wages due to supervisors not properly supporting timecard adjustments.
Finally, we determined that there are opportunities to explore TACS system controls to help ensure required information on disallowing time is captured in the system.
What the OIG Recommended
We recommended management improve training of supervisors to include procedures for disallowing time, deleting clock rings, and extending lunch times; establish a formal oversight process at district and facility levels to ensure supervisors performed these actions properly; and assess the feasibility of using systems controls in TACS to ensure supervisors make timecard adjustments in accordance with Postal Service policy.
Unfortunately, the OIG or the Postal Police whom ride by these units do anything about it. Supervisors are hitting the clock which is a dead give away when they plan on adding some extra hours long after closing time.
They can come and go whenever they want and still fill out a completed time card with “additional hours” by avoiding be clocked in to and out of work. What a racket!
right under the Postal Circus OIG, Postal Inspectors, and last but not least that cumbag Rolando the Carrier Company Union Lackey!
FIRE PMG BRENNEN! GIVE 40K BUYOUT! President Trump can you hear me?
All so the incompetent mid-management get bigger bonuses. Scumbags
Well theirs a good amount of higher levels that don’t park in the monitored garage. They instead park wherever customer parking is to alleviate time card discrepancies. The extra hours worked are well past business mail units hours of operation. Been going on for quite awhile in Boston. Nobody guarding the hen house for more than two years for sure! The kicker is the managers are well aware of it and are now telling their thief supervisors to back off for a bit. Just another reason we have no money. Overtime whether earned or stolen is rampant in Boston. Clerks and mail handlers well over $100,000. Nobody qualified to stop the bleeding. Whatever happened to the “Lean Six Sigma” team…….another postal joke!
Wonder what would happen to a craft employee if they did something similar ?
Liars, crooks, thieves with no ethics or moral standards infest the eas ranks.
That’s just it…They need to be looking into these supervisors who are not only cheating employees but helping themselves for extra hours well after the unit has been closed and the employees are gone. Business mail units have employee parking as well as other branches. By avoiding the designated supervisor parking or other areas that are monitoring arrival and departure they abuse their time.
Ok. So USPS has to pay SOME hours they should have paid ANYWAY. HOW is this fixing ANYTHING? USPS is running a sweat shop. Systematic theft. Aka RICO. This should be taken outside postal oversight & taken up by DOJ! “President” Trump wants Amazon to stop reaping undue benefits from USPS? Then how about slamming Boston Area Manager & District manager into federal prison for RICO violations? Make Amazon & every company pay for at the least tge cost if operations? Steal hours from employees so you can keep price advantage over UPS?
Call your Senator!
sanctioned by the big IOD Momma PMG Brennen….lock her up! (with the other criminal) fish rots from the head.
got news for ya its done all over
The Postal Service’s stupidvisors have doctored the time card rings before. The Postal Service in Richmond, VA. tried to remove a carrier over what they claimed false clock recordings. The union steward investigated and found it was management’s doings! The Prickmaster retired. The practice has occurred in the past, and will happen in the future. Welcome to the working world. Government agencies and private business have all the rights, the worker only has the right to work. Vote the bums out!
Exactly Right I RESIGNED AFTER A GRIEVANCE WIN worked at 3 stations in the Bronx and Brooklyn P&DC both as a Cca THIS IS NATIONWIDE.
deleted clock rings and extended lunch breaks to receive bonuses, total work hours are now within budgeted work hours. This is nation wide not just Boston!
I Work for the PO in San Diego , over 30 years ….. common practice all over , we have had mgmt caught here doing the same thing ……. just moved them to another office ……. then Promoted them.
Mgmt motto if u aren’t lieing , cheating , fudging the system …..you won’t be promoted .
Fox watching the Hen house …… not an ounce of integrity in 99%
of them
NO NEED TO WORRY– THEY WILL ALL BE PROMOTED !!!!
We must get these supervisors training to better steal money from carriers and increase their bonuses without being caught. 🤮
Where the are the various postal-worker’s unions? Perhaps,they were at the Management barbecues,they really wanted? Does anyone,have an explanation?
This was brought to attention to the local T.V. station 10 years ago in the suncoast district . By a retiring finance manager . This practice is widespread and has been . Still nothing is done . Need to get a class action lawyer on the case .
we saw that fraud too! at Mid-Island PD&C 117/119 the mismanagers only do what will juice their PFP bonus scores……everything else is left to rot like fruit on the jungle floor. we laughed all through brennen’s video…..the fool has no clue. she eats donuts while Melville burns! talk about a disconnect from reality!
Tuesday we saw that 6 minute video about IOD Muffin Megan Brennan and her failures…….funny that she admitted to a “broken business model” but the kicker was when she said she wants to be on the “team” to fix it. President Trumps Postal Circus audit deadline is August 10, 2018. I hope Treasury, OPM, & GAO recommends that this loser Brennen is fired and kicked to the curb. bring in a private sector management consulting firm to reorganize and give us a BUYOUT to get out of the TiTANIC. the ship is sinking and Brennen wants to order desert on a gold plate. get rid of this IOD, failed letter carrier of 6 months. the fish rots from the head down!
You know this just isn’t isolated to the Boston area, they need to do a nationwide audit. It happens everyday.
How about making the toolbags who broke the law pay for
the time stolen from these employees. The funny thing is that
these same illegal salary “adjustments” are going on all over
the country. Funny how the toolbags have the training to
change times but not the training to do it properly. The toolbags
know exactly what they are doing. They are trained in knowing
how their pay for performance bonuses work. What a joke on
everyone’s part. Fire them all. They knew they were breaking the law.
Happens all the time at my former facility. Glad I retired and don’t have to deal with this bs anymore