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U.S. Postal Service
The Postal Service and the Evolution of PC Postage
The Postal Service began allowing a few private companies to sell printed postage in the late 1990s. Over the ensuing 20 years, PC Postage grew from a niche business serving mostly small mailers to an established one serving mostly large package shippers. The number of providers did not grow, however. Today, there are only four. The two largest merged in 2015 when Stamps.com bought Endicia. The Postal Service has not accepted any new applicants for over a year, due to what it says is a review of its onboarding procedures. The Postal Service also has three proprietary solutions, with no usage fees, for electronic postage.In this white paper, the OIG explored various aspects of the Postal Service’s business relationship with PC Postage providers.
Our audit objective was to determine whether the U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Education (Virgin Islands DOE) has effectively designed internal controls for the administration of Immediate Aid to Restart School Operations (Restart) program funds. Our audit covered May 14, 2018, the date the U.S. Department of Education awarded a Restart grant to the Virgin Islands DOE, through December 21, 2018. We found that the Virgin Islands DOE must enhance its designed system of internal controls to ensure that it will properly administer Restart program funds and meet program objectives. Specifically, we found that the Virgin Islands DOE’s fiscal and programmatic monitoring processes do not provide reasonable assurance that it will spend Restart program funds timely or that it will conduct effective monitoring of Restart program performance. In addition, we found that the Virgin Islands DOE has not staffed its Internal Audit Division in accordance with planned staffing levels. Also, we found that the Internal Audit Division does not have standard operating procedures. The Virgin Islands DOE also does not have processes to assess fraud risks and report fraud.
Follow-up Evaluation of Corrective Actions Taken in Response to a Prior Evaluation of Foreign Officer Involvement at the United States Special Operations Command
In a previous report - the Evaluation of Dignitary Protection Division, Report Number OIG-2013-07, dated September 2013 - the Office of Inspector General (OIG) found the United States Capitol Police (USCP or the Department) needed to strengthen internal controls and establish adequate criteria to measure compliance and performance for its Dignitary Protection Division (DPD). OIG conducted a follow-up analysis of the Department's implementation of recommendations contained in Report Number OIG-2013-07. Our objective was to confirm the Department took the corrective actions in implementing the recommendations. Our scope included existing controls related to implementation of recommendations as outlined in our previous report.
