Ethical Edicts
This principle states that public service is a public trust, requiring employees to place loyalty to the Constitution, laws, and ethical principles above private gain.
What are the 14 Principles of Ethics?
This team ensures OIG leadership and employees have the correct tools and resources for effective decisions and protects privacy rights.
Who is the FOIA, Policy, and Records team?
This determines what investigations, audits, and oversight the OIG can perform.
What is budget authority?
The OIG travel policy is defined in this handbook.
What is Handbook F-15, Travel Policy and Relocation?
This is the first point of contact for reporting facility issues, such as a burnt-out light bulb.
What is your local USPS facility supervisor or manager?
The maximum value of a gift an employee can accept from a subordinate on an occasional basis, such as a holiday.
What is $10?
This serves as a key resource for managers to provide and instill compliance with agency standards and official guidance.
What is the IGM (Inspector General Manual)?
This type of appropriation has obligational authority that expires at the end of the first year and is cancelled at the end of the fifth year after expiration.
What is annual-year appropriation?
Approvers in eTravel cannot alter an expense report but can do this if necessary.
What is send the report back to the traveler for correction or explanation?
For emergency facility issues, such as a water leak, you should submit this in addition to contacting your local supervisor.
What is an OIG Facilities Helpdesk Ticket?
This type of occasion, such as a marriage or birth, allows for gifts of appropriate value between employees, even if it exceeds the usual $10 limit.
What is a special, infrequent occasion?
This Power Apps module is used for the workflow of policy development or review.
What is the Inspector General Policy Update Module (IGPUM)?
As an appropriated agency, the OIG must submit a budget justification document to this office by the second Monday of September each fiscal year.
What is the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)?
For per diem, the length of stay must be this long or longer to be included.
What is 24 hours?
When an employee offboards, these three assets must be returned to the OIG CIO ServiceDesk.
What are laptops, iPhones, and docking stations?
Using your official title or position to solicit favors or special treatment is a violation of this ethical principle.
What is Misuse of Position?
Every quarter, the Records team meets with each Director to review listed records inventory, metadata, working files storage plan, and this.
What is destruction or physical changes to paper?
This governing body of the OIG, composed of AIGs and their designees, meets quarterly to discuss financial status and approve unfunded initiatives.
What is the Investment Review Board (IRB)?
When reviewing hotel receipts, approvers must verify that this type of item, such as room service, has not been claimed as an official expense.
What are non-reimbursable items?
This rule applies to issue resolution, meaning two hours for emergency response and two days for non-emergency.
What is the Rule of Two?
When writing for outside activities, employees can cite their government title as part of biographical information, but must include this.
What is a disclaimer that their writings do not represent the views of USPS or the government?
This is the term for ensuring your team follows the information lifecycle, including completing timely destruction of records.
What is Records Management?
This term describes a situation where a component needs to make a purchase but does not have funding for it in their current budget.
What is an unfunded initiative (UI)?
When claiming local travel mileage, this must be deducted from the total.
What is normal commute to work?
This database provides a field office address list, facilities helpdesk, and allows searching by city name or component.
What is the Field Office Database (FOD)?