Federal Reports

This report presents a summary of the results of our self-initiated audits assessing mail delivery, customer service, and property conditions at four select delivery units in the Portland, OR, region (Project Number 22-001). These delivery units included the Beaverton, OR, and Vancouver, WA, Main Post Offices (MPO) and the Parkrose and Piedmont Stations in Portland, OR. We issued interim reports to district management for each of these delivery units regarding the conditions we identified. In addition, we issued a report on the efficiency of operations at the Portland Processing and Distribution Center (P&DC), which services these four delivery units.All four delivery units are in the WestPac Area. The Beaverton MPO and the Parkrose and Piedmont Stations are in the Idaho-Montana-Oregon District and the Vancouver MPO is in the Washington District. The four delivery units have a combined total of 188 city routes and 16 rural routes. Staffing at the delivery units, at the time of our audit, included 226 full-time city carriers, 64 part-time city carriers, 15 full-time rural carriers, 11 part-time rural carriers, 45 full-time clerks, and 20 part-time clerks.The delivery units service about 330,190 people in several ZIP codes which are considered predominantly urban communities.

OIG issues an Immediate Release and Advisory alerting Lifeline, Emergency Broadband Benefit, and Affordable Connectivity Program providers and consumers to improper and abusive enrollment practices that are part of some providers’ online enrollment processes.

The Peace Corps Office of Inspector General reviewed the system of quality control for the NCUA OIG in effect for the year ending September 30, 2021. A system of quality control encompasses the NCUA OIG's organizational structure, the policies adopted and procedures established to provide it with a reasonable assurance of conforming in all material respects with Government Auditing Standards and applicable legal and regulatory requirements. The elements of quality control are described in Government Auditing Standards. The Peace Corps OIG opined that the system of quality control for the NCUA OIG in effect for the year ending September 30, 2021, has been suitably designed and complied with to provide NCUA OIG with reasonable assurance of performing and reporting in conformity with applicable professional standards and applicable legal and regulatory requirements in all material respects. Audit organizations can receive a rating of pass, pass with deficiencies, or fail. NCUA OIG received an External Peer Review rating of pass.

The objective was to conduct an unannounced inspection of Torrance County Detention Center to monitor compliance with select ICE detention standards. We also conducted a limited review of the facility’s COVID-19 pandemic preparedness measures.