Anyone for three-day-a-week mail service?
Unenthusiastic about the U.S. Postal Service’s proposal for five-day-a-week mail service? Consider the possibility of every-other-day delivery. That’s today’s deep thought, courtesy of the USPS’...
View ArticleReport offers broad look at USPS issues
When you’re an American institution saddled with a business model from the last century and hemorrhaging billions of dollars a year, it never hurts to get the high-altitude view of your challenges....
View ArticleSome FBI cyber agents lack adequate skills, report finds
A review of the FBI’s efforts to mitigate national security cyber incidents found that some field agents tasked with investigating these cases lack the technical skills and expertise to effectively do...
View ArticleIG: Postal Service usually had valid business case for past mail plant mergers
You can’t call this a game-changer, but the U.S. Postal Service’s inspector general is offering some indirect support for the mail carrier’s plans to close more than half of its mail processing plants....
View ArticleGSA schedule revenue reserves draw scrutiny
A new inspector general report questions how much revenue the General Services Administration is setting aside for operations and future investments. GSA Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) officials say...
View ArticleFollowing budget cut, inspector general slashes staff by half
After their agency took an almost 50 percent budget hit, officials with the inspector general that monitors AmeriCorps and other community service programs warned that big reductions in staffing and...
View ArticleWatchdog group: Four IG offices now leaderless for years
Hard to believe, but the State Department’s Office of Inspector General has been without a permanent head for more than four years. That fact, highlighted this week by the Project on Government...
View ArticleInspector general: More than one-third of Postal Service workers eligible to...
The U.S. Postal Service’s inspector general is out with a new overview of employee retirement options. This is a hot topic nowadays, given that USPS leaders have been open about their interest in using...
View ArticleFederal prosecutors decline to take Postal Regulatory Commission case
It looks like the end of the road for a long-lived inquiry into possible misappropriation of funds by a (now former) Postal Regulatory Commission employee. In a new activity report covering the...
View ArticleCommerce IG to review recent cyber attack, security practices
A Commerce Department agency’s security program is under review, following a January cyber attack that crippled its networks. As part of an annual audit, the inspector general is reviewing the Economic...
View ArticleBill to hold agencies accountable for poorly performing overseas contractors
After pushing the Air Force last year to recoup $4.3 million spent on repairs caused by poor contractor work, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen is now proposing that all agencies explain why they decide not to take...
View ArticleCommerce IG finds $280,000 in unsupported conference costs
More than half of the conference spending reported by the Commerce Department in the first quarter of fiscal 2012 was based on estimated and unsupported costs, according to a new inspector general...
View ArticlePostal Service, IG at odds on whether top exec’s $306K compensation package...
A polite tiff has broken out between the U.S. Postal Service and its inspector general over whether a pension should count in determining whether a top officer’s compensation exceeded a legal pay cap....
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