Historical Analysis of USPS Retirement Fund Returns
2023
RISC-WP-23-005
Inspection / Evaluation
U.S. Postal Service OIG
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USPS
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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
Hotline Page
Whistleblower Protection Page
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2023
22-202-R23
Audit
U.S. Postal Service OIG
U.S. Postal Service
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2023
22-162-R23
Audit
U.S. Postal Service OIG
U.S. Postal Service
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2023
22-081-R23
Audit
U.S. Postal Service OIG
U.S. Postal Service
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2023
22-180-R23
Audit
U.S. Postal Service OIG
U.S. Postal Service
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23-049-R23
Audit
U.S. Postal Service OIG
U.S. Postal Service
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23-050-4-R23
Audit
U.S. Postal Service OIG
U.S. Postal Service
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23-050-3-R23
Audit
U.S. Postal Service OIG
U.S. Postal Service
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2023
23-050-2-R23
Audit
U.S. Postal Service OIG
U.S. Postal Service
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2023
23-050-1-R23
Audit
U.S. Postal Service OIG
U.S. Postal Service
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