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The United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), or the Postal Inspectors, is the federal law enforcement arm of the United States Postal Service.It supports and protects the U.S. Postal Service, its employees, infrastructure, and customers by enforcing the laws that defend the United States' mail system from illegal or dangerous use.
The current USPS inspector general is Tammy Hull, who was appointed by the governors of the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service on November 29, 2018. She is the USPS's third inspector general, [5] who served as Deputy Inspector General from November 2011 and was acting Inspector General from February 2016 until her appointment.
The Congressional Post Office scandal was the discovery of corruption among various Congressional Post Office employees and members of the United States House of Representatives, investigated 1991–1995, culminating in House Ways and Means Committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski (D-IL) pleading guilty in 1996 to reduced charges of mail fraud.
The postmaster is also accused of using USPS credit cards to rent luxury vehicles for personal use, officials said. From December 2019 to February 2023, he spent about $82,000 in rental expenses ...
A former Connecticut postmaster has admitted to defrauding the U.S. Postal Service of nearly $875,000 in a scheme involving cash bribes, misuse of USPS credit cards and demands for free personal ...
The formal office of the United States postmaster general was established by act of government on September 22, 1789. [8] From 1829 to 1971, the postmaster general was the head of the Post Office Department (or simply "Post Office" until the 1820s. [9]: 60–65 ) and was a member of the president's Cabinet.
Of the 11 board members, 9 are the presidentially appointed governors, 1 is the postmaster general, and 1 is the deputy postmaster general. The 9 governors elect the postmaster general, the chairman of the board as well as the USPS inspector general; the governors and the postmaster general elect the deputy postmaster general. No more than five ...
The right-wing activist group Project Veritas has settled a lawsuit with an Erie postmaster over the group's false claims that the postmaster was part of a plot to tamper with mail-in ballots to ...