Alan C. Posted March 27, 2014 Posted March 27, 2014 Postal service employees use travel cards to gamble, pay bills and go bowling One manager...used her travel card to withdraw $32,000 in cash so she could gamble.... . .She was also paid for 58 official days during which she was off work or did personal business, including sick days and dependent care sick days, which she wasn't eligible for. She raked in a total of $24,000 for those paid days.. . .Another employee used her government card for casinos, taking out $2,400 in cash for gambling.. . .Other employees took cash and salary advances to pay bills and other personal expenses. One employee paid herself $8,500 in salary and travel advances during one three-month stint as the officer in charge at a North Carolina post office, then lied about paying them back.. . .In another case, a sales service associate who hadn't traveled for work for several years used his travel card for almost $1,700 in personal cash advances, food and personal hotel stays, even after being warned by a manager not to do so.. . .A North Carolina postmaster claimed $9,400 in mileage for 96 service reviews of various post offices for which she had no records, and which several other employees told investigators they were unaware of.. . .Several other post office employees claimed thousands of dollars worth of extra mileage on travel expense forms by claiming trips or legs of trips that weren't reimbursable.
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