U.S. Postal Service

This interim report presents the results of our self-initiated audit of mail delivery, customer service, and property conditions at the Piedmont Station in Portland, OR (Project Number 22-030). The Piedmont Station is in the Idaho-Montana-Oregon District of the WestPac Area and services ZIP Code...

This report presents the results of our self-initiated audit of cash and stamp inventory, financial differences, and postage validation imprinter (PVI) label voids – Panorama City, CA, Branch Office (Project Number 21-271). This site is located in the California 3 District of the WestPac Area. This...

The Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 requires annual audits of the U.S. Postal Service’s financial statements. In addition, the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 requires the Postal Service to comply with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. This section requires the Postal...

In fiscal year (FY) 2020, the U.S. Postal Service had about 133,000 rural letter carriers and associates delivering mail on over 79,500 rural routes. A rural route can be a government owned vehicle (GOV) route where the Postal Service provides the delivery vehicle, or an equipment maintenance...

Our objective was to review the Next Generation Delivery Vehicle (NGDV) contract to determine if there are opportunities to better protect the U.S. Postal Service from fraud, waste, and abuse.

Our objective was to assess the management of Postal Service employees in absence without leave (AWOL) status to identify opportunities to timely address employees in AWOL status and manage cost.

The Baltimore Processing and Distribution Center (P&DC) is in the Chesapeake Division of the Eastern processing region and that facility processes letters, flats, and packages. From August 1, 2020, to July 31, 2021, the Baltimore P&DC processed about 1.67 billion mailpieces compared to about 1.74...

Every Postal Service-owned vehicle is assigned a Voyager Fleet card (Voyager card) to pay for its commercially purchased fuel, oil, and routine maintenance. U.S. Bank operates the program and Voyager provides a weekly electronic transaction detail file of all Voyager card transactions to the Postal...

Our objective was to summarize the results of U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General issued reports that evaluated mail operations and delayed mail at select Processing & Distribution Centers (P&DC) and identify any systemic operational issues.The U.S. Postal Service considers mail to be...

This report responds to a request from U.S. Representative Lizzie Fletcher, 7th Congressional District of Texas, to evaluate select mail delivery and customer service operations and determine if internal controls are effective at the Ashford West and Westbury Stations in Houston, TX. Representative...