USPS personnel offices; area and district facilities; Post Offices; and contractor sites.
USPS employees and non-employees who contact USPS with an inquiry or complaint, and employees and non-employees who are subjects of management inquiries or investigations of workplace issues.
- Employee information: Name, gender, Social Security number, Employee Identification Number, postal assignment information, veteran status, contact information, finance number(s), duty location, and pay location.
- Non-employee information: Name, gender, Applicant Identification Number, and contact information.
- Identification Number, and contact information.Inquiry, complaint, and investigative information: Records related to the subject category of inquiry or complaint, assigned case number, background, and description of inquiry, complaint, or investigation.
39 U.S.C. 401, 410, 1001, 1005, and 1206.
- To enable review and response to inquiries and complaints concerning employees and non-employees.
- To enable management to initiate, review, process, track, and resolve inquiries, complaints, or concerns about the workplace.
- To support administrative or court litigation and arbitration proceedings.
Standard routine uses 1. through 9. apply. In addition:
- Records may be disclosed to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in response to its request for investigative purposes, to the extent that the requested information is relevant and necessary.
Automated database, computer storage media, and paper.
By employee and non-employee name, Employee Identification Number, Applicant Identification Number, subject category, facility, finance number, district, area, nationally, or case number.
Paper records, computers, and computer storage media are located in controlled-access areas under supervision of program personnel. Access to these areas is limited to authorized personnel, who must be identified with a badge. Access to records is limited to individuals whose official duties require such access. Contractors and licensees are subject to contract controls and unannounced on-site audits and inspections. Computers are protected by mechanical locks, card key systems, or other physical access control methods. The use of computer systems is regulated with installed security software, computer logon identifications, and operating system controls including access controls, terminal and transaction logging, and file management software.
Records are retained 4 years after response to inquiry, resolution of complaint, or conclusion of investigation. Records existing on paper are destroyed by burning, pulping, or shredding. Records existing on computer storage media are destroyed according to the applicable USPS media sanitization practice.
Vice President, Employee Resource Management, United States Postal Service, 475 L’Enfant Plaza SW, Washington, DC 20260.
Vice President, Labor Relations, United States Postal Service, 475 L’Enfant Plaza SW, Washington, DC 20260.
Employees who want to know if their information is maintained in this system of records must address inquiries to the facility head where currently or last employed. Headquarters employees must submit inquiries to Corporate Personnel Management, 475 L’Enfant Plaza SW, Washington, DC 20260. Non-employees who want to know if their information is maintained in this system of records must address inquiries to the District Manager, Human Resources that governs the facility where the inquiry, complaint, or investigative records are stored. Inquiries must include full name, address, and other identifying information. In addition, employees must include Social Security number or Employee Identification Number, name and address of facility where last employed, and dates of USPS employment. Likewise, employees may also be required to furnish where the inquiry, complaint, or investigation occurred.
Requests for access must be made in accordance with the Notification Procedure above and USPS Privacy Act regulations regarding access to records and verification of identity under 39 CFR 266.6.
See Notification Procedure and Record Access Procedures above.
Employees, non-employees, supervisors, managers, and witnesses.
Records in this system that have been compiled in reasonable anticipation of a civil action or proceeding are exempt from individual access as permitted by 5 U.S.C. 552a(d)(5). The USPS has also claimed exemption from certain provisions of the Act for several of its other systems of records at 39 CFR 266.9. To the extent that copies of exempted records from those other systems are incorporated into this system, the exemptions applicable to the original primary system continue to apply to the incorporated records.
