• A Postal Service employee cannot accept cash, checks, money orders, or credit card gift cards from an outside source, such as a Postal Service customer, a company doing business with the Postal Service, or a company seeking to do business with the Postal Service.
• Never ever accept cash or cash equivalents as a gift from a customer or supplier.

Our customers, suppliers, and the public should know that they will be treated fairly and professionally no matter what. Accepting gifts – especially cash or cash equivalents – leaves the opposite impression. Declining inappropriate gifts is not only the law, it’s smart business.

Contact the Ethics Office (ethics.help@usps.gov) for more information about the ethics regulations addressing gifts.