Management Alert - Leased Trailer Damage Payments
This management alert presents our concerns with invalidated and unsupported leased trailer damage claim payments to suppliers (Project Number 15XG034NO000). We also found that the U.S. Postal Service needs to avoid or recover associated daily lease payments for trailers that are out of service for more than 10 days for repair. Damaged trailer claims have averaged about $2.1 million per year nationwide over the last 2 fiscal years. These issues came to our attention during our ongoing project, Use of Leased Trailers – Western Area (Project Number 14XG025NO002).