Postal IG Raises Concern about Clearances
The Postal Service uses about 14,500 contract drivers to deliver bulk mail shipments but about a third of those lack …More
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The Postal Service has been trying to ramp up its direct mail business by educating marketers on a new kind …More
Postal Infrastructure Could Be Repurposed, IG Says
The U.S. Postal Service could repurpose its existing infrastructure to provide innovative services that would yield new revenue, according to …More
Postal Service Tops Rankings in Poll
The U.S. Postal Service took top ranking among federal agencies that were the subject of a recent Gallup poll, with …More
IG Examines Postal Service Obligation
The U.S. Postal Service’s “universal service obligation” often is seen as restricting the agency’s ability to manage itself but that …More
USPS Operations Functioning Normally Following Data Breach
“Nearly all” Postal Service operations are functioning normally following the recent discovery of a cyber intrusion into some USPS information …More
Postal Finances Brighten, but Long-Term Outlook Still Tough
The Postal Service’s financial performance improved in 2014 but officials warn that long-term prospects remain difficult and they called again …More
GAO Assesses Steps within USPS Control
Meanwhile, GAO issued an assessment of steps USPS has taken so far or potentially could take, finding for example that …More
CBO: Postal Delivery Change Would YieldMixed Results
Changing some postal home delivery customers to cluster box delivery would save money but potentially at the cost of losing …More
Postal ServiceWants to Test Grocery Delivery Service
USPS has asked the Postal Regulatory Commission for authority to expand a test with Amazon (which it entered into for …More
IG Calls on USPS to Implement Transportation Route Tracking Technology
USPS management should revise and implement a plan to integrate highway contract route tracking and payment IT system for its …More
IG: USPS Should Better Track Completion of Repairs Paid by Credit Card
The Postal Service spent about $52.9 million on facility repairs and alterations costing under $10,000 each, but lacks a policy …More
APWU Takes Effort to Block USPS Consolidation to House
The American Postal Workers Union recently managed to get about half of the Senate to sign a letter to the …More
IG Faults USPS Cloud Computing Contracting
The Postal Service’s cloud computing contracts do not comply with all of its internal standards, the USPS inspector general has …More
Senators Lobby Against Blocking Postal Closures
The chair and ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee are asking their colleagues on the …More
USPS IG: Competition Advocate’s Impact Unclear
USPS recently established a competition advocate to improve its noncompetitive purchasing practices, but without a standard for measuring performance the …More
IG: USPS Needs to Improve Guidance for Optimizing Delivery Units
The guidelines the Postal Service uses for consolidating delivery units are not adequate for processing unit-optimization proposals with projected financial …More
Hardware Failure Leads to Loss of USPS Cyber Incident Database
The Postal Service needs to modify its current data backup and storage requirements to ensure that essential, but not critical, …More
Postal Reform Bill Could be At Least a Year Out
Comprehensive postal reform legislation appears to be off the table again this year, with half of the Senate calling for …More
USPS Needs to Tighten eCommerce Controls
Controls used to safeguard the Postal Service’s eCommerce customer registration process and reduce online credit card fraud need improvement, the …More
USPS IG: Vehicle Fleet Upgrade Presents Opportunity
About 142,000 long-life vehicles out of the Postal Service’s 190,000-vehicle total delivery fleet are near or have exceeded their expected …More
USPS Reports Gains in Shipping and Packing Along with $2 Billion Loss
The Postal Service ended the third quarter with a net loss of$2 billion, compared to a net loss of $740 …More
IG Calls on USPS to Improve Business Service Network
The Postal Service could generate an additional $382 million in fiscal 2014 by improving customer outreach through its Business Service …More
Carper Hasn’t Given Up Hope on Postal Reform
The head of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has used the occasion of confirmation for four members …More
USPS Employee Who Ran for House Seat Removed
The Office of Special Counsel has announced it successfully removed from federal service a USPS employee who twice ran for …More
USPS Must Ensure Reassigned Employees are Qualified for New Positions
An arbitrator has ruled that the Postal Service must determine that employees meet minimum qualifications when “excessing” them to a …More
IG: USPS Should Better Monitor Travel Card Purchases
Postal Service travel card coordinators need to more effectively monitor cash advances, the USPS inspector general has said. It selected …More
USPS to Resume Plans to Close Up to 82 Processing Plans
The Postal Service has told the American Postal Workers Union that it will resume plans to close up to 82 …More
Sen. Concerned, Urges Progress on Postal Reform This Summer
The chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Tom Carper, D-Del., said he was concerned about the …More
USPS IG Considers Opportunity Presented by 3D Printing
The Postal Service, faced with the continuing decline of first class mail that has traditionally propped it up, must look …More
