To Solicit or Not to Solicit

As a USPS employee, you can’t request or accept free lunches, massages or any other type of donation from local businesses for any purpose! Not even for employee appreciation days, Post Office dedication ceremonies or Postmaster installations.

Why? It violates the gifts from outside sources regulations. Accepting donations from a local business also can create the appearance to the public that the Postal Service endorses the outside business. The same goes for allowing a business on postal property to peddle its wares.

Declining donations from local businesses is not only the law, it’s also smart business!