Weeks after a CBS Colorado investigation raised questions about required security clearances not being met by contract carriers, a newly uncovered audit shows many of the same concerns had already been flagged to the U.S. Postal Service months earlier, yet the issues appeared to persist.
The contractor who originally brought those concerns forward now says he is paying the price.
Austin Wolf said mail carriers were working without required background checks and that workers may have been sharing security badges. For two years, he said he repeatedly tried to get the Postal Service to address what he was seeing inside the Golden Post Office, including reporting his concerns to the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General.
“I had reported this for over two years. They didn’t correct it, and I did what I felt like I had to do, which was get some outside help,” he said.
Wolf eventually contacted CBS Colorado. After the story aired, he said contractors without proper clearances were removed or reassigned. But he says reporting those concerns came at a personal cost. According to Wolf, the postmaster warned him he was in trouble after the issue became public. Two days later, he received notice that his contract was ending.
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