Postal Service Actions to Locate and Track Employees After Hurricane Katrina

Our overall objective was to determine the effectiveness of the actions to account for all employees based on whether the Postal Service (1) located employees in the days after Katrina and (2) tracked employees’ locations as they changed addresses in the days and months following the hurricane. We also determined what, if any, responsibility employees had to inform the Postal Service of their locations as they moved about the country. We reviewed the facilities in the Southeast Area’s Mississippi District and the Louisiana District’s New Orleans Processing and Distribution Center (P&DC) located in the Southwest Area.