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U.S. Postal Service
Benchmarking Hiring Strategies: Insights for the Postal Service’s Pre-Career Hiring Practices
The U.S. Postal Service plays a vital role in the life of this nation, serving nearly 169 million addresses nationwide. To deliver on its mission today and in the future, the agency needs to recruit and hire employees in every part of the country. However, the Postal Service currently faces several workforce-related challenges.
To inform USPS’s recruiting, hiring, and onboarding strategies for its pre-career workforce, this paper reviews a sample of organizations in the public and private sectors to identify their best practices. Pre-career employees are temporary workers who do not receive the same benefits as career employees and are not always guaranteed a regular schedule, providing USPS with cost and operational flexibility.
Opportunities to Improve Internal Control Gaps for the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations’ Implementation of the Advanced Industrial Facilities Deployment Program
Closeout Financial Audit of the Civil Society Action for Security and Justice Activity, Managed by Participacin Ciudadana in the Dominican Republic, Cooperative Agreement AID-517-A-15-00006, October 1, 2021, to December 31, 2022
Financial Audit of the Innovative Solutions for Agricultural Value Chains Project in Guatemala, Managed by Agropecuaria Popoyn, S.A., Cooperative Agreement AID-520-A-17-00006, January 1 to December 31, 2023
Financial Audit of the Health Connect Jamaica Activity, Managed by University of the West Indies, Cooperative Agreement 720532221CA00003, August 1, 2022, to July 31, 2023
During the week of March 31, 2025, we performed a self-initiated audit at the Louisville Processing and Distribution Center (P&DC)and three delivery units serviced by the P&DC. The delivery units included the Iroquois Station, Middletown Branch, and Pleasure Ridge Park Branch in Louisville, KY.
We issued individual reports for the three delivery units and the P&DC. We also issued another report summarizing the results of our audits at all three delivery units with specific recommendations for management to address.
