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B-173350 1 (1973-02-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaaghj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 GENERAL GOVERNMENT DIVISION LM0968 B-114874 FEB 2 8 1973 The Honorable The Postmaster General Attention: Assistant Postmaster General Eudey Dear Mr. Postmaster General: The General Accounting Office reviewed the anad administration of sick leave within the United States Postal '- Strvice to ascertain we t e Posta Service was control- ling it to the extent possible. We made our review at postal headquarters and at selected facilities within the former St. Louis, Missouri, and Wichita, Kansas, Postal Regions. We concluded that the Postal Service has a sick leave problem and should devise a means of alleviating it. Because no other Federal agency operation is exactly comparable to Postal Service operations, it may be unrealistic to expect the rate of sick leave usage in the Postal Service to drop as low as other Federal agency rates. However, the potential signif- icance of improvement in the rate of sick leave usage is indi- cated by considering that had postal employees used sick leave in fiscal year 1972 at the same rate as employees of the Soil Conservation Service and the U.S. Forest Service, the Postal Service's costs for sick leave used would have been $146 mil- lion, rather than $231 million--a difference'of $85 million. EVIDENCE OF A PROBLEM Our belief that the Postal Service has a sick leave prob- lem is based on: 1. The upward trend in employees' usage of sick leave. 2. Variations in annual sick leave usage among postal regions. 3. The lower usage rates of other Federal agencies. 4. Information developed by Postal Service internal aud'

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