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| Date Oct. 22, 1976 |
Report No. GGD-77-2 |
Title
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| Date Oct. 22, 1976 |
Report No. GGD-77-3 |
Title
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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 Oct. 18, 1976 |
Report No. GGD-77-1 |
Title
B-114874 The Honorable A. John EIeinz, House of Representatives Dear Mr. Heinz: III lllllllllllllllllllllllllllll :
LMl00673 Pursuant to your reguest of Miy 7, 1976, we reviewed allegations that were made concerni,lg mismanagement in the United States Postal Service. Because the allegations concentratti prkarily on practices at the Pittsburgh Post Office, the major portion of our rev&w was at that... |
| Date Sept. 21, 1976 |
Report No. GGD-76-103 |
Title
,’ : 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
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 Aug. 4, 1976 |
Report No. 090073 |
Title
UNITED STAT-B GENERA; W~JNTING OFWE
WASHiNGTON, D C 20548 I GENERAL GOVERNMENT DIVISION Al& 4 197b V. P. Conway Senior Assistant Postrraster Employee and Labor Relations United States Eostal Service Oear
aspects Mr. James General Group Fp tir The Conway General Accounting Office has studled selected of the Postal Service’s tralnlng and development programs to determire 1f these proqrams were bei... |
| Date April 30, 1976 |
Report No. GGD-76-84 |
Title
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 April 20, 1976 |
Report No. 094290 |
Title
WASI-i;NGTOf;; LX; * 20548
GENERAL GOVERNMENT DIVISION C. Maevis Mr. Alfred Assistant Postmaster General Real Estate and Buildings U.S. Postal Service Dear Mr. Maevis: completed a limited for identifying and needs. This letter effectiveness cf Regions. The General Accounting Gffice has review of the 2ostal Service’s program leasing space excess;, to its operational apprises you cf our observatio... |
| Date April 12, 1976 |
Report No. GGD-76-81 |
Title
UNITED STATES GENERAL A~COLINTING OFFICE
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GENERAL
GOVERNMENT DIVISION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 - y-p.7 6 ------B ~-114874 The Honorable Olin E. Teague House of Representatives IX Dear Mr. Teague: t4w-l12 1976 On December 8, 1975, you requested that we determine why the Bryan, Texas, Post Offide was relocated and whether the move was beneficial to the Government. You also asked that we determine w... |
| Date March 16, 1976 |
Report No. GGD-76-63 |
Title
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
. 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 March 9, 1976 |
Report No. 090777 |
Title
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I QEZNERAL GOVERNMENT DiVlSION I Mr. James R. Braughton Assistant Postmas%er General for Delivery Services U.S. Postal Service a Dear Mr. Braughton: The’ General Accounting Office has compl.eted its assessment of the Service’s vehicle safety program. We be1 ieve that greater compliance at the local level with existing national policies and the strengthening of certain national policies wou... |
| Date March 5, 1976 |
Report No. GGD-76-61 |
Title
GGD-76-61 MARCH 59197'6 COMPTROLLER GENERAL WASHINGTON. OF THE UNITED STATES D.C. 20548 B-114874 . / _I' The General Accounting Office testified on February 20, 1976, before the Senate Committee on Post Office and Civil Service on certain proposed changes to the Postal Reorganization Act. As an addendum to our statement, we prepared a document entitled "A Sun-n-nary of Observations on Postal Servi... |
| Date Feb. 12, 1976 |
Report No. GGD-76-44 |
Title
” - .- J . Postal Service kquisition Of Land In Hamikm Township, New Jersey The Post,il Service chose the proper economic altcrnatlve from among those considered in dccidlng to construct a new postal faclllty to I rnpl ovc rn,lll proccsscng capability In the Trenton area. Of the sites ser,ouslv considorcd, the Service chose the bzst frc,m the stdndjlolnts of both operations aIla construction. Ho... |
| Date Jan. 30, 1976 |
Report No. GGD-76-39 |
Title
COMFT-ROLLEA GEhERAl.
WASHINGTCIN. OY O.C. TdE ZlMa UNI’FED STATS JAN 3 o j?76 The Honoraole MaJ.k 0. Aatfield, United States Senate The Honorable James Weaver, House of Representatives lwlllllllll lll~~lllllllllllll~
LM099961 We have evaluated the alleged improprieties at the 5-c. ‘>I’,‘3 Eugene, Oregon, Pest Office as you jointly requested in your April 28, 1975, letter. As agreed with y... |
| Date Jan. 20, 1976 |
Report No. GGD-76-41 |
Title
a S-114874 RELEASED - JAN 2 0 1976 The Honorable David N. Henderscn Chairman, Committee on Post Office hnd Civil Service House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairmant ! ‘ Your letter of June 23, 1975, requested that we investigate allegations of exaggerated mail volumes and overstaffed These operations at the Washington, D.C*, City Post Office. However, the Postal Service has allegations were vali... |
| Date Dec. 11, 1975 |
Report No. GGD-76-35 |
Title
QIINgRAf OOVERNMENT DLVtSlON B-114874 oec 11 197s I The Honorable Dc Id M. Fraser House of Repcesentatives Dear
Me. Fraser : i /’ In. your August 2!., 1975, letter, you requested statistical infocmation on postal public secvice subsidies provided c by other countcies an.l *a anai-ysis-of--the cffa ‘e-ieney-of LG.-,I,I~o~.~~,k~ff~chw~ po-s~;nstM”ntc--ies-compared to that of the c> U.S. Postal... |
| Date Nov. 17, 1975 |
Report No. 090218 |
Title
! ..: 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
” I . ~NITEDSTATESGEWERALACCOUNT~NG OFFICE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 . 1 I
i 5 GENERAL GCIVERNMWT DIVISION . wov 7 1975
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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 Nov. 5, 1975 |
Report No. GGD-76-13 |
Title
COMPPROL~R GENERAL
WASHINGTON, OF THE UNITED
D.C. 20148 STATES B-114874 LB The Honorable Joe L. Evins Committee on Small Chairman, House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: Business I\ S3@’ This report is in response to the recommendation in an of a Subcommittee of the House of .,&October 16, 1974, report [ti 2 Representatives’ Permanent Select Committee on Small Business. ,p That report rec... |
| Date Nov. 4, 1975 |
Report No. GGD-76-6 |
Title
c . United States Postal Ser\;icti .\lthough &t-class mail delive-yperformancs for New Mexico generally did rtot meet ths &XtaUem goal of 95 percent ontime delivery, it usually exceeded that of the Western Region and the Nation, Improvements could be made, particularly in the timeliness of mail delivered to New Mexico from Z- and 3-day ateas. The Sat-vice his taken Y proposed steps to improve mail... |
| Date Oct. 17, 1975 |
Report No. GGD-75-109 |
Title
United States Postal Service The Postal Service’s system for measuring mail delivery performance shows that, on a nationwide basis, 95 percent of local firstclass mail receives overnight delivery. This statistic is reliable, but it includes only stamped first-class mail, which accounts for 40 percent of first-class mail volume. The measurement system has weaknesses which make local area overnigh... |
| Date Sept. 19, 1975 |
Report No. GGD-75-96 |
Title
U.S. Postal Service The Postal Service is trving to dsl:ver letters promptly and at acce!:table cost throuGh attempts to irrprvti mechanization. Three n?w types of equipment have been unsuccessfil! lo date m providing any substantial tmprDv,vemen3 over existing equiprrant in term: of cost Lr prccassing ability. The Postal Service is taking correctke ask n on recommendations to improve some prccure... |
| Date Aug. 25, 1975 |
Report No. GGD-75-99 |
Title
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
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 June 4, 1975 |
Report No. GGD-75-87 |
Title
REPORT TO THE CONGRESS utmfl ()ff/cf STATES llllllllllllllllllllll\lllllllll GENERAL A~CO~ffff~G
LM097016 JUN 5 B/5 L@RARY sys~flts $100 Million Co;ld% Sibed Annually In Postal Operations In Rural America Without Affecting The Quality Of Service
United States Postal Service BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES GGD-75-87 UME 41975 COMPTROLLER GENERAL
WASHINGTON. OF THE
D.C. UNITED STATES... |
| Date May 19, 1975 |
Report No. 090212 |
Title
Richard F, Gould, Assistant Postmas%er Genesral Finance Depalctment u as. Postal. Service
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LM090212 The Gene~aS Accounting Office has examined Postal Service pr~~cedu~~es and practices for assessing and collecting fourthc3iass mail revenues in the Bostonp SPITingfield I and White River The Junction Districts of the Service's Northeast Region. firndings di... |
| Date March 20, 1975 |
Report No. 094601 |
Title
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 Feb. 20, 1975 |
Report No. GGD-75-58 |
Title
The Honorable David N. Henderson Chairman, Committee on Post Office and Civil Service House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: In accordance with discussions with your office, we have developed ‘I various estimates of mail volume and Postal Service income and expenses ’ for 1984. The Service views the Postal Reorganization Act as mandating that it become self-sufficient by then, Qm Septemb... |
| Date Feb. 20, 1975 |
Report No. GGD-75-71 |
Title
c CQMPTROLLER * Y GENERAL
WASHINGTON. OF THE
D.C. UNITED STATES 20!548 a-182343 I The Honorable John L. IvlcClellan /-; ’ Chairman, Committee on L/ Appropriations ;’ 7 i/ k, United States Senate Dear Mr. Chairman: Your office requested us to (1) set forth the events leading to the Postal Service’s current procedures for calculating the ; amounts due from the Department of Defense (DOD) for m... |
| Date Feb. 13, 1975 |
Report No. GGD-75-62 |
Title
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WASHINGTON, OF
D.C. THE UNITED STATES ZfXM8 B-l 14874 The Honorable William L. Hungate Chairman, Subcommittee on Environmental Problems Affecting Small Business House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: ,., , Your October 16, 1974, Committee report requested that we investigate (1) the profitability of the Postal Service’s postique operatio... |
| Date Jan. 9, 1975 |
Report No. 089469 |
Title
UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
WASWNGT’ON, B C 20548 GENERAL GOVSRNMSNT DIVISION Mr. Robert H. McCutcheon Assistant Postmaster General Procurement and Supply Department U. S. Postal Service Dear Mr. McCutcheon* I The General Accountmg Office has completed a survey of the proservices, and supportive equipment m the curement of supplies, Central Region of the U. S. Postal Service. The pur... |
| Date Aug. 22, 1974 |
Report No. B-119600 |
Title
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| Date Aug. 14, 1974 |
Report No. 089914 |
Title
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 28, 1974 |
Report No. 089916 |
Title
UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUFITING OFFICE
WASHINGTON, D C 20548 GENERAL GOVERNMENT DIVIS104( The Honorable Edward V Dorsey Semor Assistant Postmaster General for Operations U S Postal Service Ja&~Q Dear Mr Dorsey z ci /----- The General Accountmg Offrce has completed a survey of lettersortmg machme (LSM) operations at the Detroit Post Offlce. Our observations at that post office were not Included i... |
| Date July 19, 1974 |
Report No. B-180235 |
Title
i) . 8.980235 COMPTROLLER GENERAL
WASHINGTON. OF
D.C. THE UNITED STATES 2OW4a B- 180235 The Honorable Thaddeus J, Dulski Chairman, Committee on Post Office c.1 and Civil Service House of Representatives s Dear Mr. Chairman:
’ Yaur November 28, 1973, letter requested that we determine whether the contracts for automatic data processing equipment for installation at Postal Data Centers in St. Loui... |
| Date June 19, 1974 |
Report No. 089467 |
Title
b GENERAL GOVERNMENT OWlSION Mr. Edward V. Dorsey Senior Assistant Postmaster General flor Operations I?. S. Postal Service Dear Mr. Dorsey: During the 1973 Christmas season, we reviewed postal operaSince one of our objectives was tions at eight large post offices. to ascertain how well mail was processed, we conducted a test mailing between the cities served by the eight post offices and used thi... |
| Date April 22, 1974 |
Report No. 090005 |
Title
UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCQUNTING OFFICE
WASHINGTON, D C 20548 GENERAL. GOVERNMENT DIVISION MT 2 2 $gq 4 Mr. Edward Dorsey Senior Ass&ant Postmaster General for Operations U. S. Postal Service $y Dear Mr. Dorsey % / UJ 9 Durmg the 1973 Christmas season, we reviewed postal operations at erght large post offices to ascertam the effectiveness of recent actions taken by the Postal Service to improve ma... |
| Date April 12, 1974 |
Report No. 093538 |
Title
UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
WASHINGTON REGIONAL OFFICE
22046 FIFTHFLOOR 803WESTBROADS7REET FALLSCHURCH,VIRGINIA Mr. Walter C DeVaughn Associate Public Printer, Management and Administration Government Printing Office Dear Mr DeVaughn. APt? I 21974 d We thought lt would be useful to summarize for you observations developed during our audit which have been discussed with Mr Brian Mercer,... |
| Date April 12, 1974 |
Report No. 093537 |
Title
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| Date Oct. 30, 1973 |
Report No. 089848 |
Title
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| Date July 31, 1973 |
Report No. 093954 |
Title
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| Date July 26, 1973 |
Report No. 091283 |
Title
. . 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 March 19, 1973 |
Report No. 088973 |
Title
UNITED STATESGENERALACCOUNTINGOFFKE
WASHINGTON, D C 20548 GENERAL GOVERNMENT DIVISION The Honorable BenJamln F Ballar Sensor Asslstant Postmaster General United States Postal Servrce Dear Mr. Ballar The General Accounting Offlee has completed a survey of selected aspects of registered and collect-on-dellvery (COD> mall. The obJectrve of our survey was to obtain a working knowledge of these actlvlt... |
| Date March 13, 1973 |
Report No. 090072 |
Title
GENERAL. GOVERNMENT DlYlSIOM Mr H, F Faught Senior Asssstant Postmaster Mall Processing Group Unlted States Postal Service Dear M-r, Faught General MAR 93 197’3 P The General Accounting Offlce has completed a survey of selected The aspects of the Postal Servlcels efforts to reduce parcel damage obJectzve of our survey was to obtain a working knowledge of these actlvltles for the purpose of decid... |
| Date Oct. 26, 1972 |
Report No. 089917 |
Title
’ 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
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 Sept. 21, 1972 |
Report No. 089919 |
Title
UN~~TEDSTATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFKE
D.C. 20548 WASHINGT’CXJ, GEFJERAL GOVERNMENT DIVISION I111111111111 IIIIll11 Ill1 lllllIll11 Ill1 Ill11 Ml
LM089919 Dear Mr. Hayden: The General Accounting Office has completed a survey of the Postal Our survey work ServIcelS self-service postal center (SSPC) program. was performed at the Postal Service's headquarters, the Eastern Regbonal the Washington Di... |
| Date May 4, 1972 |
Report No. 088925 |
Title
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| Date April 28, 1972 |
Report No. 089786 |
Title
UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE ~' |
