USPS faces $15,625 fine after heat-related death of Dallas mail carrier Eugene Gates Jr.

USPS faces $15,625 fine after heat-related death of Dallas mail carrier Eugene Gates Jr.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration citation alleges the postal service failed to protect workers on June 20, the day ...
USPS OIG - Processing and Delivery of Veterans Affairs Medicine

USPS OIG – Processing and Delivery of Veterans Affairs Medicine

We found that while the Postal Service processed and delivered a large majority of the VA Pharmacy packages on time, ...
Tampa mail carrier dead after USPS truck overturns in hit-and-run; suspect at large

Tampa mail carrier dead after USPS truck overturns in hit-and-run; suspect at large

Preliminary investigation revealed that a dark-colored Mercedes sedan struck the postal carrier's USPS truck and then fled the scene. Police ...
USPS Won’t Say Whether It Shared Americans’ Contact Information with Labor Unions

USPS Won’t Say Whether It Shared Americans’ Contact Information with Labor Unions

The United States Postal Service (USPS) is entangled in a federal lawsuit, accused of potentially sharing the private information of ...
GAO - U.S. Postal Service: Opportunities Exist to Strengthen Workforce Diversity Efforts

GAO – U.S. Postal Service: Opportunities Exist to Strengthen Workforce Diversity Efforts

However, GAO's analysis—which controlled for factors such as employee tenure—found that White, non-Hispanic or Latino, and male employees generally had ...
OIG Agents Bring Unlikely Co-conspirators to Justice

OIG Agents Bring Unlikely Co-conspirators to Justice

Investigators also found the doctor was writing bogus prescriptions for his patients, often without their consent. Over 90 percent of ...
Reasonable accommodations - Policy set for pregnant, nursing employees

Reasonable accommodations – Policy set for pregnant, nursing employees

However, under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act — also known as the PWFA — employers must provide reasonable accommodations to ...
USPS OIG - Security Assessment of a U.S. Postal Service Product Solutions Application

USPS OIG – Security Assessment of a U.S. Postal Service Product Solutions Application

Our objective was to evaluate whether the Postal Service had security controls in place to protect the application from cyberattacks, ...
'Worked to death': Postal employees in Missoula say workplace is in crisis

‘Worked to death’: Postal employees in Missoula say workplace is in crisis

The issue is leading to severe mail delays in the area, with local residents complaining that important health, tax and ...
GAO says USPS business model, financial struggles partly to blame for mail delays

GAO says USPS business model, financial struggles partly to blame for mail delays

We reached out to the Government Accountability Office to see what they had to say about mail delays, and an ...