U.S. Postal Service

Our objective was to assist the OPM in assessing the reasonableness of U.S. Postal Service employee health benefits, life insurance, and retirement withholdings; Postal Service benefit contributions; and enrollment information submitted via the headcount report.

The Postal Service has a pricing management system based on procedures and methodologies that were developed over 20 years ago. The Postal Service’s primary sources for developing and analyzing prices comes from statistical analysis and reports that are generated on a quarterly and annual basis...

OIG data analytics identified that the West Sacramento P&DC had $18,827 recorded to account identification code (AIC) 624, Refund of Miscellaneous Non-Postal Revenue, from January 1 to March 31, 2019. AIC 624 refunds for the West Sacramento P&DC accounted for 67.5 percent of all refunds processed in...

This report presents the results of our self-initiated audit of U.S. Postal Service Processing Network Optimization. The objective of our audit was to evaluate trends and practices used to optimize the Postal Service’s processing network. The Postal Service’s processing network includes 285...

This management alert presents issues identified during our ongoing audit of U.S. Postal Service Transportation Network Operations and Cost Optimization Practices. The objective of this management alert was to provide Postal Service officials immediate notification of the issues identified during...

Our objective was to identify and summarize the findings and recommendations in four issued area physical and environmental controls site security reports. The objective of those four audits was to determine whether the Postal Service established effective physical and environmental security...

The Lakeview Station has 40 city delivery routes delivered by 58 city carriers. We used geolocation data to identify units with stop-the-clock (STC) scans that occurred at the delivery unit property instead of the intended delivery address. The unit had 7,720 STC scans at the delivery unit between...

The Gardena Post Office has 56 city delivery routes and one combination route delivered by 91 city carriers. We used geolocation data to identify units with stop-the-clock (STC) scans that occurred at the delivery unit property instead of the intended delivery address. These scans occurred on...

The Broadway Finance Station is located in the Houston District of the Southern Area. OIG data analytics identified Broadway Finance Station had high amounts of refunds recorded to Account Identifier Code (AIC) 509, Voided PVI labels. The objective of this audit was to determine whether voided PVI...

Our objective was to evaluate whether virtual private network (VPN) access to the Postal Service’s Information Technology (IT) network was granted only to those individuals who require access. eAccess is used for requesting and approving access for applications and other IT infrastructure. We...