Audit Recommendations

OIG’s Office of Audit makes recommendations to the United States Postal Service to correct deficiencies and encourage improvements in the safety, economy, efficiency, and management of the Department’s programs and operation.

Our audit report findings and conclusions explain the basis for the specific corrective actions we recommend. This Recommendation Dashboard provides more information than ever before about the current status of OIG recommendations, which we plan to update on a weekly basis.

TOTAL OPEN RECOMMENDATIONS

268

OPEN RECOMMENDATIONS
FINANCIAL VALUE

$3,253,067,029

 

 

Fiscal Year Report Titlesort descending Issue Date Report Number Financial Value Status Recommendation Management Response
2018 Consolidation of Mail for Network Distribution Centers - Chicago and San Francisco 10/27/2017 NL-AR-18-002 $0 Open R - 1 -- Update Postal Service Headquarters standard operating procedures to clarify the frequency of inspections and establish standards to assess the need for consolidation deconsolidation facility trips. Agree
2018 Mail Processing Facilities Staffing 03/30/2018 NO-AR-18-004 $0 Open R - 3 -- implement and document the Verification, Validation, and Accreditation process for the Function 1 Scheduler. Disagree
2018 Mail Processing Facilities Staffing 03/30/2018 NO-AR-18-004 $0 Open R - 1 -- establish nationwide criteria for using Function 1 Scheduler results. Disagree
2018 Mail Processing Facilities Staffing 03/30/2018 NO-AR-18-004 $420,133,963 Open R - 2 -- include Function 1 Scheduler results in headquarters’ annual budget process. Disagree
2016 Access Controls over Mail Imaging Systems 01/14/2016 IT-AR-16-004 $0 Open R - 2 -- Require passwords for all mail imaging systems accounts in accordance with Handbook AS-805. Agree
2016 Access Controls over Mail Imaging Systems 01/14/2016 IT-AR-16-004 $0 Open R - 3 -- Delete all accounts that have not been used in more than 365 days and all guest accounts on the mail imaging systems. Agree
2016 Access Controls over Mail Imaging Systems 01/14/2016 IT-AR-16-004 $0 Open R - 4 -- Require users to change passwords for all administrative accounts at least every 30 days and for all non-administrative accounts at least every 90 days for the mail imaging systems. Agree
2017 Accuracy of Grievance Settlement Payments 01/27/2017 HR-AR-17-003 $77,553 Open R - 2 -- Finalize resolution of outstanding underpayments and collect outstanding overpayments for the Kelly Services settlement. Agree
2017 Accuracy of Grievance Settlement Payments 01/27/2017 HR-AR-17-003 $3,443,354 Open R - 1 -- Finalize resolution of outstanding underpayments and collect outstanding overpayments for the Global Remedy settlement. Agree
2018 Accuracy of In-Office Cost System Data 10/18/2017 CP-AR-18-001 $0 Open R - 1 -- Establish automated controls in the Computerized On-site Data Entry System Web-Based Unit that validate In-Office Cost System telephone readings are rescheduled according to policy. Agree

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