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U.S. Postal Service
Delivery Scanning Issues – La Vergne Post Office, La Vergne, TN
The La Vergne Post Office is in the Tennessee District within the Eastern Area. This unit has 18 rural delivery routes (including one auxiliary route) delivered by 26 carriers (17 full time and 9 part time). We chose the La Vergne Post Office based on the number of stop-the-clock (STC) scans occurring there. We used geolocation data to identify units with STC scans that occurred at the delivery unit instead of the intended delivery address. The La Vergne Post Office had 17,611 STC scans at the delivery unit between June and August 2019.
The Improving Head Start for School Readiness Act of 2007 required the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Head Start (OHS), to develop the Designation Renewal System to ensure that it would not automatically renew a Head Start grant for a grantee that has not provided a high-quality and comprehensive Head Start program. Instead, the Head Start grant would be subject to an open competition. In 2013, OHS notified Pathways for Children, Inc. (Pathways) that because of noncompliance with program requirements, it would be required to compete for Head Start funding. Pathways applied to compete for the Head Start funding and was awarded the grant again as the sole applicant. On the basis of its noncompliance, we selected Pathways for this audit.
