To help control costs: USPS seeks changes to its legislative, regulatory oversight Postal Service plans to help close its projected deficit include legislative and regulatory changes to eliminate the prepayment of retiree health benefits, change frequency of delivery and restructure price caps mandated by the Postal Law of 2006. “We’re asking Congress to restructure our […]
PHYSICIAN PLEADS GUILTY TO HEALTH CARE FRAUD OFFENSE The Office of Inspector General (OIG) has investigated many fraudulent workers’ compensation claim cases. Most of these investigations involve postal employees scamming the system. But, employees aren’t the only ones who abuse the system. Sometimes, medical providers used by postal employees injured on the job, defraud and […]
3/10/10 As you have heard, the OIG, in Janaury 2010, found that USPS overfunded the CSRS retirement fund by some $75 billion. As a retired CSRS employee I was curious as to whether or not there was ANY possiblity that postal CSRS contributors could have somehow been overcharged as well. So, I wrote the OIG and […]
3/06/10 The following article/opinion was submitted to Postal Employee Network anonymously and does not necessarily reflect our views or opinion. I am a letter carrier and a shop steward for the NALC. I have some knowledge of the inner workings of the Postal Service and served on the MIARAP process both as a local office contact as […]
A study just released by the U.S. Postal Service’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) shows that the current system of funding the Postal Service’s Civil Service Retirement System pension responsibility is inequitable and has resulted in the Postal Service overpaying $75 billion to the pension fund. The OIG estimates that if the overcharge was used […]
On January 7, 2010, Leonard Jenkins, a Baltimore mail carrier, was sentenced in U.S. District Court, Baltimore, Maryland, to 3 years incarceration, followed by 3 years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $104,446 in restitution for mail fraud, theft of mail, and aggravated identity theft arising from the use of his position as a […]
OIG Workers Compensation ‘Fraud’ Campaign Who’s scamming who? The USPS Office of Inspector General recently launched a “Workers’ Compensation Fraud Campaign.” In typical OIG fashion, one of its strategies involves demonizing injured workers by having an actor posing as a postal employee cheerfully brag about cheating the Workers’ Comp program. No one, of course, should […]
December 03, 2009 Some of you may have visited the Dead Tree Edition today and found an error message from Google stating “The blog you were looking for was not found.” Well…this is not the full story – here’s what Dead Tree has to say… For all of you who have been kind enough to […]
On the eve of the holiday season, Dunkin’ Donuts, America’s all-day, every day stop for coffee and baked goods, is delivering a very special gift to the men and women who deliver our holiday cards, catalogs and presents. On Wednesday, November 25, Dunkin’ Donuts will serve free coffee to any United States Postal Service (USPS) […]
THEY’RE GOING TO VEGAS BABY!