It’s Our Business

When you’re on the clock at the Postal Service, you can’t spend any time doing work for a second job or your own company. Not 30 minutes, not 30 seconds, no time at all. It’s prohibited under the USPS misuse of time provision.

You also can’t use postal equipment and resources to perform work for your outside employer or your outside company — regardless of whether you’re on the clock.

Our customers don’t want to pay you to work for someone else.

Postal time, equipment and resources can’t be used to serve another employer.

And that’s smart business.

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

Perishable Gifts

• If you receive a perishable gift from a postal customer or supplier valued at more than $20.00, you have more choices than just returning it or paying for it.
• You may also donate it to an appropriate charity, share it with the office, or destroy it.
• A perishable gift is an item that would perish in the process of returning it to the sender.
• Flowers or fresh fruit are perishable. Cookies or chocolate (even there’s fruit in it) are not.

Knowing the difference is smart business.

Contact the Ethics Office (ethics.help@usps.gov) if you need more guidance.