Nonpublic Information

Our customers and suppliers trust us with important information so we can do our jobs.

If you use their nonpublic information in other ways to help you or help someone else, you are misusing your position and violating ethics regulations.

Keeping the confidences of our customers enhances the Postal Service’s reputation for trustworthiness.

And that’s smart business.

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

White Elephant Group Gift Exchanges

• One of the exceptions to the rule prohibiting gifts to superiors allows an employee to accept a non-cash gift valued at $10.00 or less from a subordinate or lesser paid employee on an occasional basis, such as birthdays or holidays.
• Likewise, a Postal Service employee may give a non-cash gift valued at $10.00 or less to a superior or higher paid employee on such occasions.
• Everyone may participate in a holiday gift exchange or similar activity as long as the gifts are worth $10.00 or less, and are not cash.

Voluntary gift exchanges can improve morale as long as they are done within the rules.

And that’s smart business.

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