U.S. Postal Service

The OIG used data analytics to identify offices with lost or stolen stamp stock shipments. We identified three expenses totaling $27,429 related to stamp stock shipments for the Bensalem, PA, Post Office and the Croydon Post Office, a small post office whose stamp stock is shipped to the Bensalem...

Our objectives were to assist U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in assessing the reasonableness of U.S. Postal Service employee retirement, health benefits and life insurance withholdings; Postal Service benefit contributions; and enrollment information submitted via the headcount report by...

So what does the generation born and raised in the age of the Internet think of something like regular mail? Do so-called Digital Natives, who have little experience with life pre-World Wide Web, have any interest in it? Did they ever? The questions raise critical implications for the future of the...

Advertising mail provides a big chunk of revenue to the U.S. Postal Service every year — almost $17 billion in fiscal year 2013. It has also been surprisingly resilient despite the digital revolution, holding a constant share of the advertising market. The Postal Service, however, cannot afford to...

Based on outside expert research we commissioned, it is clear the U.S. Postal Service has at present relatively informal processes for managing IP and would benefit greatly from developing and promulgating a formal, organization-wide IP strategy. This white paper reviews the current processes...

2013 marks the 100-year anniversary of Parcel Post, now known as Standard Post. Today, the way goods are bought and sold is changing again because of the Internet. The rapid growth of e-commerce is bringing expansion and disruption to the parcel delivery market. As this transformation continues...

We asked the consulting firm A.T. Kearney to explore a greenfield approach to the U.S. Postal Service’s costing system. The following report provides the results of A.T. Kearney’s research.