The Postal Service is reminding employees that they aren’t permitted to misuse their position.
This means employees cannot:
- Misuse their title or authority to further any private interest of their own
- Misuse government information that isn’t readily available to the public for any unauthorized purposes
- Misuse government property — such as computers, laptops, printers and email addresses — for any unauthorized purposes
- Misuse official time — including a subordinate’s time — to perform any unauthorized tasks
“The public’s interests are served when Postal Service employees are fair and impartial while performing official tasks,” said Natalie Bonanno, the organization’s acting chief ethics officer. “The public may lose confidence in the integrity of the Postal Service if it perceives that an employee is using his or her public position to serve a private interest.”
Management Instruction EL-660-2009-10 allows limited personal use of postal property and postal time. However, such limited use may not reduce productivity during work hours, interfere with the Postal Service’s operations, or violate the Standards of Ethics Conduct, which are available on the Ethics Blue page.
Throughout 2019, the Postal Service is educating employees about the federal government’s principles and standards of ethical conduct. In addition to misuse of position, this campaign has addressed avoiding conflicts of interest.
For further guidance, send an email to the USPS Ethics Office at ethics.help@usps.gov.
Public Trust – try starting from the top – it’s called lead by example
Ethics…in the PS? Must be something new. When did they start requiring that?
Ethics???? Postmasters and supervisors these days don’t even know what the word ethics or ethical even means. I agree with RRR.
“START AT THE TOP”
We, the carriers are so micro managed and most truly care about our jobs while the true abusers are higher up!!