Postal insurance program risks ‘operational failure’ due to OPM staffing shortages

Postal insurance program risks ‘operational failure’ due to OPM staffing shortages

Staffing vacancies and funding losses at the Office of Personnel Management are putting the near-new Postal Service Health Benefits program at risk of an “operational failure,” according to OPM’s inspector general office. A “flash” OIG audit report published earlier this month warned that OPM’s new health insurance program covering about 2 million Postal employees, annuitants and their family members, is facing “critical resource issues,” just a…