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Nov
21
2018
Report Number:
FCS-FM-19-001
Report Type:
Audit Reports
Category: Finance

No Sale Transactions – Dallas, TX, Mockingbird Finance Station

Background

This report presents the results of our self-initiated audit of No Sale Transactions – Dallas, TX, Mockingbird Finance Station. The Mockingbird Finance Station is in the Dallas District of the Southern Area. This audit was designed to provide U.S. Postal Service management with timely information on potential financial control risks at Postal Service locations.

OIG data analytics identified the Mockingbird Finance Station with 2,107 No Sale Transactions from July 1, 2017, to June 30, 2018. This represented 4.3 percent of the unit’s total retail transactions for this period. During this same period, eight counts of the unit’s retail floor stock resulted in a net financial shortage of $10,949, of which 85 percent of the missing stamps were rolls of coil stamps.

Report Recommendations

# Recommendation Status Value Initial Management Response USPS Proposed Resolution OIG Response Final Resolution
1

R - 1 -- Reiterate to unit management the requirements to report financial discrepancies greater than $100 to the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General, document count results, and file retail floor stock count documents locally.

Closed $0 Agree