Federal Reports

Our objective was to determine whether the Postal Service followed applicable statutory, regulatory, and process requirements in its decision to sell the East Hartford Post Office. Chairman Gerald E. Connolly of the House Subcommittee on Government Operations and Representative John B. Larson requested that we conduct this review.

This report represents our current assessment of the U.S. Small Business Administration's programs and activities that pose significant risks, including those that are particularly vulnerable to fraud, waste, error, mismanagement, or inefficiencies. The Challenges are not presented in order of priority, except for the COVID 19 challenge, which we address first in this report. We also view the other challenges as critically important to SBA operations.

Objective: To determine whether the information the Social Security Administration (SSA) reported to the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) Information Technology (IT) Dashboard was reliable.

The Sunrise Station is in the Nevada – Utah District of the WestPac Area. The unit has 69 city routes which are delivered by 83 full-time city carriers, four part-time flexible carriers, and 19 city carrier assistants. The Sunrise Station also has 10 full-time clerks and seven postal support employees. We chose the Sunrise Station based on the number of stop-the-clock (STC) scans occurring at the delivery unit, rather than at the point of delivery, and the number of Customer 360 inquiries the unit received related to package tracking and mail delivery delays. Our objective was to evaluate select mail delivery and customer service operations and determine whether internal controls were effective at the Sunrise Station.