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GGD-76-39 1 (1976-01-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaabom0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROL...EX GENEqAL OF T-H UNITED -TAT--S WAHINGTON. D.C. Z054A JAN I 0 i916 B-1.4874 The Honoraole Mark 0. Hatfield, United States Senate The Honorable James Weaver, House of Representatives 1III We have evaluated the alleged improprieties at the Eugene, Oregon, Post Office as you jointly recuested in your Aoril 28, 1975, letter. As agreed with your offices, we met with the Eugene local American Postal Workers Union representatives and grouped their allegations into five categories. We interviewed Postal Service and union representatives, examined Postal Service :eports and documrents, observed mail-processing operations at the Eugene Post Office, and reviewed Postal Inspection Service reports on that post office. The allegations and a summary of oL findings follow. A more detailed discussion of each alleqaticn can be found in the enclosure. 1. Work Load Recording System falsificdtion. We found no evidence of deliberate flsification eTFor---k Load Recordina System records. HowEver, certain interr,-l controls were weak, leaving the svstem vulnerable to m-nirulation. We m no Lecommendatlons to Euqene postal management for strengthening the internal controls because' the Postal Service recognized the weaknesses and implemented a new system, the Management Operatirg Data system, in Seotember 1975. 2. Unfp.ir hiring rrac .ices. kllegatot s of unfair hiring prciEces %ere unfouned. 'l. hirings examrined were made accor6. ig to Pc3tal Service re.jlaticns. GGD-76- 39 2~u~2434'I G A,% ~j~8U~ Illillil 11111 lB mliii ii I11111 111111 11 11 I LM099961 III +IIII lllll • 0 9W