Former U.S. Postal Service Officer Pleads Guilty to Theft and Sale of Checks Addressed to Pittsburgh Area Businesses
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Investigative Press Release
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U.S. Postal Service
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United States
What to Report to the OIG Hotline
The USPS OIG Hotline will take complaints regarding fraud, waste, and misconduct within the Postal Service. These include:
- Injury compensation fraud
- Embezzlements and financial crimes
- Contract Fraud
- Kickbacks
- Computer Crimes
- Narcotics
- Employee Misconduct
- Internal affairs and executive investigations
- Whistleblower reprisal
- Theft of items from the mail by Postal employees or contractors
- Destruction of mail by Postal employees or contractors
What Not to Report to the OIG Hotline
The following matters are NOT generally investigated by the USPS OIG:
- Daily mail delivery and tracking problems
- Post Office customer service issues and concerns. If you have a customer service issue, please contact USPS.
- Day-to-day management decisions
- EEO Complaints
- Issues that are handled by the grievance process
- Issues handled by other government agencies such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Department of Labor, Justice
- Department, Office of Personnel Management
- Employee benefits and compensation
For help on these and other issues not listed please visit https://www.uspsoig.gov/hotline-helpful-links
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Whistleblower Protection Page
Security and Efficiency of the New Carrier Scanners and Electronic Locks
2025
24-089-R25
Audit
U.S. Postal Service OIG
U.S. Postal Service
The U.S. Postal Service’s Mobile Delivery Device – Technology Refresh (MDD‑TR) is a handheld mobile scanning device used by Postal Service employees to improve real-time delivery scanning capabilities. As a part of the Delivering for America plan, the Postal Service committed to modernizing the MDD...
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Article Type
Investigative Press Release
Publish Date
Boston Woman Pleads Guilty to Armed Robberies of Postal Workers
Article Type
Investigative Press Release
Publish Date
Jefferson County Man Admits to Cocaine Charge
Article Type
Investigative Press Release
Publish Date
Former USPS Supervisor Admits Stealing Cash and Gift Cards from Mail
Article Type
Investigative Press Release
Publish Date
Efficiency of Operations at the Denver Processing and Distribution Center, Denver, CO
2024
24-136-R24
Audit
U.S. Postal Service OIG
U.S. Postal Service
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Brighton Main Post Office, Brighton, CO: Delivery Operations
2024
24-137-1-R24
Audit
U.S. Postal Service OIG
U.S. Postal Service
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Measuring Performance of Sorting and Delivery Centers
2024
24-040-R24
Audit
U.S. Postal Service OIG
U.S. Postal Service
One of the Postal Service’s key initiatives of its Delivering for America 10-year plan is to revitalize nearly 19,000 delivery units by targeting markets where it can aggregate delivery units into fewer, larger, centrally located sorting and delivery centers (S&DC). According to the Postal Service...
Analysis of Historical Mail Volume Trends
2024
RISC-WP-24-008
Inspection / Evaluation
U.S. Postal Service OIG
U.S. Postal Service
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