Thursday • June18

Smart Business Moment

Misuse of Position II

What’s Thicker than Blood?

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Misuse of Position II

What’s Thicker than Blood?

Never use your postal position to help your relatives or your friends get a job or a contract with the Postal Service.
If you know about an opportunity, get in and get out fast!
Tell them where to find publicly available information, and then let the official USPS process unfold.

When you avoid giving your relatives and friends special treatment, you show our customers and prospective employees that Postal Service employees have integrity – and that’s smart business.

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

Alternate business moment

Sustainability I

Go Green!

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Sustainability I

Go Green!

These simple actions help save energy at work and at home:

Turn off lights when not in use
Adjust thermostats to appropriate temperatures
Keep outside doors and windows tightly sealed
Close blinds on hot summer days
Open blinds on sunny cool days
Print on both sides of the paper
Report water leaks

We all need to do our part to reduce facility energy usage. By making small changes like these, postal employees have helped the Postal Service to reduce facility energy usage by 30 percent since 2003.

At home and on the job, saving energy is SMART BUSINESS!

Smart Safety Moment

Safety orientation

Spread the safety knowledge.

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Safety orientation

Spread the safety knowledge.

All postal employees, including non-career employees, must receive a general safety and health orientation and sufficient on-the-job training. The training must include site-specific safety rules, specific job safety analyses, required OSHA programs, emergency evacuation procedures and OSHA rights and responsibilities.

This training enables employees to follow safe work practices, recognize hazards and understand the benefits of a safety-focused workplace.

And that’s smart safety!

For additional information or guidance, contact your safety office.

Alternate safety moment

Headlight use

We’re going to illuminate you on the use of headlights.

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Headlight use

We’re going to illuminate you on the use of headlights.

They’re not just for driving at night. Headlights are required to be turned on from sunset to sunrise, when driving in smoke or fog, if visibility is less than a thousand feet, or when windshield wipers are in continuous use because it’s raining, sleeting or snowing.

Turning on your headlights can play an important role in keeping you — and those around you — safe on the road.

And that’s smart safety!

For additional information or guidance, contact your safety office.

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