When you’re an American institution saddled with a business model from the last century and hemorrhaging billions of dollars a year, it never hurts to get the high-altitude view of your challenges. That’s what the U.S. Postal Service’s inspector general aims to provide in a newly released report examining “fundamental questions” for the agency’s future. Those questions include whether the Postal Service ought to keep its letter and mailbox monopolies; whether it should be allowed to expand into non-postal lines of business; and whether it should be considered a profit-driven business or part of the national infrastructure. Particularly thought-provoking is…
Monthly Archives: February, 2011
The deadline to nominate your favorite public servants for a Service to America Medals award has been extended to Feb. 7. This year’s awards include a new management excellence medal category for a top employee who shows superior leadership or management. Federal employee of the year, career achievement and call to service are among the other categories. You can submit your nominations here.
From Jan. 9 to 10, 4.5 inches of snow fell across the Atlanta region. The city was ill prepared to deal with the snow; traffic ground to a halt, the ever-busy airport closed and supermarkets quickly ran out of basic supplies. Feds across the country, and especially in the Washington, D.C. and Chicago areas, have dealt with similar problems recently. These events have shown how much disruption some snow can cause, and recent preemptive announces by the Office of Personnel Management prove how important the forecast is to government activities. But for the General Services Administration (GSA) in the Atlanta-area,…