U.S. Postal Service

This report presents the results of our audit of the Boston Processing and Distribution Center.

This report presents the results of our audit of delivery operations and property conditions at the Brookline Branch in Brookline, MA.

Each year, the U.S. Postal Service experiences an increase in package volume during peak mailing season — Thanksgiving through New Year’s Eve — which can significantly strain the Postal Service’s processing and distribution networks. To help handle this increase, the Postal Service creates peak...

We have audited the accompanying Reclassified Financial Statements of the U.S. Postal Service, which comprises the Government-wide Treasury Account Symbol Adjusted Trial Balance System (GTAS) Reconciliation Report -Reclassified Balance Sheet as of September 30, 2024, and the related GTAS...

The Office of Inspector General is tasked with ensuring efficiency, accountability, and integrity in the U.S. Postal Service. We also have the distinct mission of helping to maintain confidence in the mail and postal system, as well as to improve the Postal Service's bottom line. We use audits and...

The U.S. Postal Service’s Mobile Delivery Device – Technology Refresh (MDD‑TR) is a handheld mobile scanning device used by Postal Service employees to improve real-time delivery scanning capabilities. As a part of the Delivering for America plan, the Postal Service committed to modernizing the MDD...

The U.S. Postal Service needs effective and productive operations to fulfill its mission of providing prompt, reliable, and affordable mail service to the American public. It has a vast transportation network that moves mail and equipment among about 330 processing facilities and 31,100 post offices...

The U.S. Postal Service’s mission is to provide timely, reliable, secure, and affordable mail and package delivery to more than 160 million residential and business addresses across the country. The U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General (OIG) reviews delivery operations at facilities...

One of the Postal Service’s key initiatives of its Delivering for America 10-year plan is to revitalize nearly 19,000 delivery units by targeting markets where it can aggregate delivery units into fewer, larger, centrally located sorting and delivery centers (S&DC). According to the Postal Service...

Market Dominant mail — a category consisting primarily of First-Class Mail, Marketing Mail, and Periodicals — is the Postal Service’s largest source of funding, contributing 53 percent of the agency’s revenue in fiscal year (FY) 2023. Since 2006, however, mail volume has been in decline. The key...