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Department of the Interior
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program Grants Awarded to the State of Minnesota, Department of Natural Resources, From July 1, 2016, Through June 30, 2018
The Hawthorne Post Office is in the Los Angeles District of the Pacific Area. The unit has 50 city routes, including one auxiliary route, delivered by 58 full-time regular city carriers, four part-time flexible city carriers, and five city carrier assistants. We chose the Hawthorne Post Office based on the number of stop-the-clock scans at the delivery unit. Our objective was to review select mail delivery and customer service operations at the Hawthorne Post Office.
The Milam Dairy Annex is in the South Florida District of the Southern Area. The delivery unit has 38 city routes delivered by 45 full-time city carriers and 34 city carrier assistants. The unit also has 18 clerks. Forty-two percent of the unit’s delivery points are businesses. We chose the Milam Dairy Annex based on the number of stop-the-clock scans occurring at the unit. Our objective was to review select mail delivery and customer service operations at the Milam Dairy Annex and provide the Postal Service with timely information regarding those operations.
Postal Service employees with delegated purchase card local buying authority (cardholders) may use the expense purchase card in accordance with purchase card policies and procedures and are required to obtain approval for purchases. Purchase card local buying authority is the authority to buy and pay for day-to-day operational needs up to $10,000. Cardholders must maintain records to support their purchases for three years. Our objective was to assess Postal Service purchase card transactions for potential non-compliance and for improper or erroneous payments.
Our objective was to (1) determine whether the Social Security Administration (SSA) made payments to beneficiaries and representative payees who were deceased according to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and (2) identify non-beneficiaries in the Commonwealth's death files whose death information did not appear in the Agency's records.
