Post-Employment Restrictions

• Accepting employment with a business that you worked with in your postal capacity after you retire or leave the Postal Service can be perilous because a criminal law may limit your communications with the Postal Service on behalf of your new employer.
• Which of the post-employment restrictions apply to you, and how they will apply, depends on your individual situation.

The post-employment restrictions are complex and fact-specific – please contact the Ethics Office (ethics.help@usps.gov) in advance to avoid criminal liability and damage to the Postal Service’s reputation.

Looking before you leap is smart business.

Sanitize Before Sending

When reviewing a document that’s responsive to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, you must redact all exempt information, add the appropriate FOIA exemption code to each redaction, and check that all hidden data, hyperlinks, and metadata have been removed before releasing it.

Reviewing and redacting documents with care furthers compliance with FOIA and makes sure that exempt information is not released inappropriately.

And that’s smart business.

Contact your FOIA coordinator or the FOIA team – at foia12@usps.gov – with any technical questions on using or obtaining Adobe Acrobat Pro, including how to check whether hidden data, hyperlinks, and metadata have been removed from a document prior to release.