Postal Service: Work Hour Allocations to High Growth and Low Growth Post Offices

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed U.S. Postal Service (USPS) work-hour allocations to post offices in areas with high and low work-load growth during fiscal year (FY) 1990, focusing on whether: (1) work-hour budget overruns were widespread among post offices in high work-load growth areas; and (2) post offices in high work-load areas experienced more frequent overruns than post offices in low work-load growth areas.