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Date Dec. 28, 1976 Report No. GGD-77-14 Title

Government Operations: Review of Postal Service Mail Trucking Contract Awards

DOCOBENT RESBHE 00441 - [A0590843] (Restricted) Review of Posttl Service Bail Trucking Contract Awards. GGD-77-14; B-114874. December 28, 1976. 7 pp. Report to Rep. Ronald V. Delluss; by Victor L. Lowu, Director, General Government Div. Issue Area: Federal Procurement of Goods and Services (1900). Contact: General Government Div. Budget Function: Cosmerce and Transportation: Postal Service (402). ...
Date Dec. 10, 1976 Report No. GGD-76-100 Title

Government Operations: Problems of the New National Bulk Mail System

DOCUMENT RESUME 00439 A0590648] - w .. Problems of the New National Bulk Mail System. GGD-76-100; B-114874. December 10, 1976. 2 pp. + arpendix (2 pp.). rprort to ep. Charles H. Wilson, Chairman, House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service: Postal Facilities, ail and Labor Management Subcommittee; by Elmer B. Staats, Comptroller General. Issue Area: Facilities and Material Management: Euildin...
Date Oct. 29, 1976 Report No. GGD-76-110 Title

Government Operations: Quality of Mail Service in the State of Louisiana

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Date Oct. 22, 1976 Report No. GGD-77-2 Title

Government Operations: Quality of Mail Service in Southeastern Wisconsin

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Date Oct. 22, 1976 Report No. GGD-77-3 Title

Government Operations: Quality of Mail Service in Southeastern Wisconsin

- llllllllllllllllllllllllllllll LMl00438 Quality Of Mail Service In Southeastern M/iscons;7 United States Postal Swvice The Postal Service measures qua];:/ of service primarily in terms of delivery performance of first-class mail. More ?han 97 percent of firstclass stamped mail committed tn overnight service in southeasterr, ‘JVisconsin arrives on time. Service is inconsistent for other classes...
Date Sept. 21, 1976 Report No. GGD-76-103 Title

Government Operations: Review of the Quality of Mail Service in Pueblo, Colorado

,’ : Dear the Mr. Evans: we/reviewed Pursuant to your October 21, 1975, request, quality of mail service in Pueblo, Colorado-? I In April 1974 a new statewide mail distribution plan known as the Colorado State Simplified Distribution System was implemented. Under this system, Pueblo’s outgoing mail is processed in Colorado Springs to achieve better mail service at less cost through use of incr...
Date Sept. 1, 1976 Report No. 094916 Title

Government Operations: Review of the Postal Service's Evaluation of an Alternative Mail Processing System

The Honorable c. United States I , Dear Senator Paul Laxalt Senate Laxalt: 111111111111111111 LM094916 This i-s in response o your ti review \ ing that we independently / of an alternative mail processing Stephenson of Las Vegas, Nevada. In brief, Mr. Stephenson March 15 , -1976, letter requestthe Postal Service!s evaluation system? proposed by Mr. John F. that of the location current on proposes ...
Date April 30, 1976 Report No. GGD-76-84 Title

Government Operations: Study of a U.S. Postal Service Facility's Contract Routes

B-114874 APR3 0 1976 . e\k ?J f , ‘Dear Senator The Honorable United States Robert Dole Senate Dole: >- 2.” This report is in response to your February 11, 1976, request that we exam’ine a study entitled “Analysis of a U.S. Postal Service Facility’s Contract Routes (Topeka, Kansas) uI’ The study, conducted by Dr. Leonard W. Schruben and Mr. Dennis R. Schmidt, maintains that the ff .S. ...
Date March 16, 1976 Report No. GGD-76-63 Title

Government Operations: Relocation of Mail Distribution From the Terminal Annex in New Haven, Connecticut, to the Tapley Street Annex in Springfield, Massachusetts

RELEASrf~~NGTON. ,,__..-.. ---.- DC* 2oS48 CENERA~ GOVERNMENT DIVISION llllllllllslllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllll LM090817 Mm 1 6 wg B-11 4874 /! c The Honor:b;e Christopher House of Representatives Dear I Mr. Dodd : J. Dodd Your letter of December 16, 1975, requested that we study the fiscal effects of the Postal Service’s decision to relocate the distribution of nonpreferential secondclass (...
Date March 9, 1976 Report No. 090776 Title

Government Operations: Postal Service's Vehicle Maintenance Program

. UNITEDSTATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 CENERAL GOVERNMENT DIVISION MAR 9 1976 / 1 Mr. Edward Dorsey Senior Assistant Postmaster General for Operations United States Postal Service Dear Mr., Dorsey: In November 1975, the General Accounting Office reported on the operations of the Postal Service’s centralized automotive parts distribution system. As an adjunct of that revi...
Date Nov. 17, 1975 Report No. 090218 Title

Government Operations: Potential for Savings Through Consolidating Mail Operations in the San Francisco, CA and Seattle, WA Postal Concentration Centers

! ..: i‘.\.i . .,.’ __-.. .+-I’ : ‘_. . . . .v I ,’ -. , We discussed this matter with the Regional Postmastes md he agreed that savings were possible. We were advised p~gi.on would take steps to route al% air shipments through if headquarters approved.. General, that the Seattle Tra possibae 50 j3e view 3 we of believe the rhrough substantial the iabos should and center, .iransportatioc...
Date Nov. 7, 1975 Report No. 090219 Title

Transportation: Evaluation of Trade-Offs Between Transportation Savings and Service Impact of the Postal Service

” I . ~NITEDSTATESGEWERALACCOUNT~NG OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 . 1 I i 5 GENERAL GCIVERNMWT DIVISION . wov 7 1975 . c i I f i d’ Mr. James V. Jellison Assistant Postmaster for Logistics United States Postal Dear Mr. Jellison: General Service * In response to our July 3, 1974, report General on star route contracting, the Postal number of actions to economize *on star routes --establishing s...
Date Aug. 25, 1975 Report No. GGD-75-99 Title

Financial Management: Federal Agencies Could Do More To Economize on Mailing Costs

Federal Agencies cxx.!I To Economize’ The Federal Government is the largest single user of postal services. In fiscal year 1974, Federal agencies and departments spent about $m4$ million to send 2.8 billion pieces of . i In passing the Portal Reorganization Act, the Congress intended that the Postal Setdice be come a self-sustaining enterprise. To do so, its ! customers must pay their full sftar...
Date June 9, 1975 Report No. GGD-75-92 Title

Government Operations: U.S. Postal Service's Practice of Providing Centralized Mail Receptacles Free of Charge to Housing Developers

QENERAL GQVRRNMENT DIVISION B-114874 c / / > The Honorable United States Dear Senator Alan Cranston Senate Cranston: ~ ) the /mail requested that we review your February 18, 1975, letter U.S. Postal Service’s practice of providing centcalized receptacles free of charge to housing developers. We examined (1) the legality of this practice, (2) the number and cost of receptacles provided to develop...
Date March 20, 1975 Report No. 094601 Title

Government Operations: GAO Reviews of Postal Service, Postal Rate Commission, and the Federal Civilian Work Force

STATEMENT OF ELMER B. STAATS, COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE U N I T E D STATES BEFORE THE POST OFFICE AND C I V I L SERVICE COMMITTEE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - nN POSTAL RATE COMMISSION, AND GAO REVIEWS OF POSTAL SERVICE, MR. CHAIRMAN AND M M E S OF THE COMMITTEE: E BR I a p p r e c i a t e your i n v i t a t i o n t o d i s c u s s GAO's work i n v o l v i n g t h e P o s t a l S e r v i c e ,...
Date Aug. 14, 1974 Report No. 089914 Title

Transportation: Reliability of Postal Service's Air Transportation

il GENERAL GOVERNMENT DIVISION Mr. Joseph Jones Director, Logistics United States Postal Dear Mr. Jones: Department Service You will recall that last year the General Accounting Office initiated a limited examination of the Postal Service’s air taxi operations. Our objective was to obtain a sufficient understanding of these activities to judge whether a detailed audit should be undertaken. The e...
Date July 26, 1973 Report No. 091283 Title

Government Operations: Operation of the United States Postal Service

. . United States General Accounting Washington, D.C. 20548 Office FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY Expected at 10 a.m. EDT Thursday, July 26, 1973 STATEMENT OF ELMER B. STAATS, COMPTROLLERGENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON POST OFFICE AND CIVIL SERVICE UNITED STATES SENATE ON OPERATION OF THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee: to be here, and activiti...
Date July 17, 1973 Report No. B-169391 Title

Government Operations: Use of Protective Plastic Envelopes by Government Printing Office

q The Honorable Robert H. Steele House of Representatives Dear Mr. Steele: 1 .-- In your letter of April 10, 1973, you asked us to examine into a constituent’s statement that he had received ordinary correspondence from the Government Printing Office (GPO) in a pqtec-tive, plastic, envelope. He believed that using a s&a.nd~ a 1.4 ::‘i \ ;,‘.I [Ji)
Date Oct. 26, 1972 Report No. 089917 Title

Government Operations: Survey of Customer Cooperation Programs, United States Postal Service

’ UNITED STATE GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D C 20548 GENERAL GOVERNMENT DIVISION I OCT 26 1972 Dear Mr. Comarow The General Accounting Office has completed a survey of the customer cooperation programs--programs intended to achieve a balance in postal workloads and Increase efflclency by encouraging large-volume mailers to cooperate with post offlces In preparing and depositing their m...
Date Sept. 29, 1972 Report No. 089918 Title

Government Operations: Minimum Wage Rate Determinations for Star Route Mail Haul Contracts Under the Service Contract Act of 1965

UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D C 20548 MANPOWER AND DIVISION WELFARE SEP 2 9 -igi? Dear Mr Zarb As part of our review of the procedures and methods used by the Department of Labor In maklng determlnatlons of the mlnlmum wages required to be paid to service employees under the Service Contract Act of 1965, we reviewed the procedures used to prescribe mlnlmum wage rates and fr...
Date April 2, 1971 Report No. 094430 Title

Employment: Wage Rates Determined by DOL on Mail Hauling Services

United States General Accounting Washington, D,C, 20548 Office FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY Expected at 1O:OO a.m. EST April 2, 1971 STATEMENT OF GREGORY J, AHART, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, CIVIL DIVISION BEFORE THE SPECIAL SUBCOMMITTEE ON LABOR *.HOUSE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR ON WAGERATESDETERMINED THE BY DEPARTMENT OF LABOR ON MAIL HAULING SERVICES UNDERTHE SERVICE CONTRACT OF 1965 ACT AND A LEGAL DE...