Advancing skills

Honing and expanding skills for current and future job roles is an ongoing, evolving process.

• Encourage employees to identify where their current and future skills best contribute to the organization.
• Support continual access to division meetings, industry conferences and skill advancement seminars that offer opportunities to share, teach and sharpen employee soft and technical skills.

Employees who are encouraged to interact and learn from peripheral sources motivate and cross-train each other — this improves individual competencies and fortifies our organization’s mission.

And that’s smart business!

Prior Approval for Supplemental Employment

A Postal Service employee must obtain prior approval from the Ethics Office before engaging in certain types of outside employment or business activities.

The jobs that require prior approval are those with a company with whom the employee has official postal dealings, a company whose interests are substantially dependent upon postal rates, fees or classification, or a company that is substantially dependent on providing goods or services to the Postal Service.

Avoiding outside employment that creates a conflict of interest preserves the Postal Service’s reputation for fairness and honesty.

And that’s smart business.

Contact the Ethics Office (ethics.help@usps.gov) for more guidance.