The Postal Service's watchdog is investigating the agency for runaway travel expenses, a lingering problem for the cash-strapped mail carrier even as it tries aggressively to cut costs.
A report from the Postal Service's Office of Inspector General, released in September, found that the agency, which lost almost $16 billion in last year, had overpaid more than $1 million in travel reimbursements to employees during an 18-month period.
The report said the employees improperly claimed refunds or used government-issued travel cards for personal expenses such as hotel stays and purchasing gasoline, among other issues.
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The Post Office did not "lose $16 Billion last year". This is more government employee and union bashing. The Postal Service was saddled with an enormous and extraordinary burden by Republicans in Congress who demanded that it pre-fund retirement obligations at a level no other agency, public or private, is required to do. - David Hearne
ReplyDeleteIf you always do , what you've always done , your gonna get what you've always got.
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should not have given all that money to Lance Lying Armstrong probably could have ran off it a little longer
ReplyDeleteYeah 9:00 pm--Those Dirty Repubicans!! How dare they not keep greenlighting massive government spending paid for by borrowing from China or printing more money! THE NERVE!! Do you think that those of us in the private sector don't have to pay for our pensions ahead of time from the money we earn? Why can't thepostal workers do the same--after all the public sectore earns far more than private! ANd what does that have to do with the waste and fraud for travel expenses that the article addresses?
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