Gifts Based on Spouse’s Outside Business Relationship

• As a Postal Service employee, you may accept meals, lodging, transportation and other benefits that result from your spouse’s business or employment — when it’s clear it has nothing to do with your official status.
• When you decline gifts from an outside source intended to buy your influence over a postal matter, you preserve the integrity of the Postal Service.

And that’s smart business.

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

CFC Fundraising Events

• If you want to hold a special Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) event, you should first talk to the Ethics Office.
• It is OK to hold certain events during the CFC campaign if they are approved in advance. The main point of any CFC event is to generate interest in CFC.
• As a result, cash contributions must not be accepted and events should be open to all even if they do not participate in CFC.

CFC events that encourage charitable donations without coercion result in a functional, stable work environment.

And that’s smart business.

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