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.

Borrowing Postal Funds

• Borrowing money from a cash drawer and repaying it at a later date is a misuse of government property.
• Likewise, taking cash from the sale of a money order, and reporting the sale of the money order at a later date when you are able to pay it back is also a misuse of government property.
• The Inspector General’s audits routinely uncover this type of conduct, and employees involved are often removed.

Keeping cash in the drawer and not in your pocket is smart business – for the Postal Service and for you.

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