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Audit of Postal Service shows fuel thefts
KANSAS CITY, Mo (AP) - A special audit by the U.S. General Accounting Office has found that poor control over the Postal Service's annual $100 million budget fuel has resulted in massive thefts and falsified purchase forms.
The Kansas City Star reported Sunday that the audit said record-keeping in the Postal Service was so insulting to the extent of abuse could not be determined.
Investigators found that some fuel-purchase forms in Kansas City, Mo., had been altered and that fuel had been stolen out of trucks in an unfenced parking lot at a Mission post park. Postal officials said they planned to fence in the lot.
THE GAO, the investigative arm of Congress, said postal officials were inadequately monitoring bulk fuel centers to ensure that gasoline and diesel fuel paid for is received by the postal service.
The GAO also found that records of purchases by the Postal Service from local service stations were inadequate and easy to alter.
For example, investigators found several mistakes on forms used to pay taxes.
Postal Service vehicle maintenance facility in Kansas City. However, GAO officials said they could not determine whether the errors were intentional.
The audit, the results of which were released earlier this month, also found that forms designed to monitor use of vehicles and fuel were not filled out at some Postal Service locations, including Kansas City.
The audit also said lax controls over
weekends had resulted in fuel thefts.
"Although the service does not require mileage to be recorded each time a vehicle obtains fuel, we were able to make a fuel use-to-mileage comparison at one location—Shawnee Mountain. This allowed substantial fluctuations in the use of fuel for the five-five ton trucks we reviewed over a 12-day period.
"The fleet manager told us these fluctuations indicated that gasoline had been siphoned from the vehicles while we parked overnight and on weekends."
IN A LETTER that is part of the report, Postmaster General William F. Bolger agreed with GAO recommendations for better checks to ensure
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The GAO report said the scope of the problems was so broad that investigators concentrated on finding sources of fraud to vulnerable to fuel fraud rather than attempting to define how much fraud and abuse is occurring.
"If local supervisors do their jobs, the present system is adequate." Bolger said in the letter. "We intend to see to it that supervisors do improve their performances."
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But, he said, it would waste time and create needless paper work to require drivers to wait at service stations for a complete receipt for fuel purchases.
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Bolger also agreed there is a need for better accounting methods to keep track of fuel dispensed from bulk tanks or on the premises, the use of fuel by Postal Service drivers.
Fishermen's blockade eases at French ports
PARIS (AP)—A small strike by disgruntled fishermen in the port of Poulouse has blossomed into a major crisis involving most of France's 25,000 fisherman, the French navy and high government officials.
An uneasy truce reigned yesterday at most French ports, where strikers agreed to ease their blockade until after a meeting of the National Conciliation Committee. The committee comprises fishermen, shipowners and government officials.
But few observers expected today's discussions or Wednesday's meeting of the French Cabinet to resolve the multitude of problems facing France's flagging fishing industry. The prospect of a renewed blockade and the continued loss of millions of dollars a day seemed very real.
THE FISHERMEN'S DEMANDS are many and varied, depending on the region, but the single unifying issue is the price of diesel fuel for their boats. The cost of the fuel has risen by about 30 cents a gallon, to $1.05, in the past year.
"I use 2,600 gallons of diesel fuel a week," said one angry fisherman. "We never would have believed the price could rise so drastically."
The other major issue involves economy measures that will reduce the size of crews on commercial jobs. The Communist and Socialist parties have
The government already gives fishermen a subsidy of 9.5 cents a gallon, and the fishermen pay no taxes on the fuel.
blamed Premier Raymond Barre and his austerity measures for the crisis.
Transportation minister Joel le Sheule, whose negotiations with the fishermen have deadlocked, has rejected all "simplistic" solutions. He says he prefers to deal with the problems on a region-by-region basis.
THE FRENCH FISHING industry, which accounts for about 100,000 jobs, is going through hard times. Fish are becoming more rare in French waters, and fishermen are forced to look farther from their own shores.
More than 80 percent of the production now is caught in foreign waters.
Production in 1979 was 700,000 tons, for about $875 million. Despite the fact that France is bordered by three seas and has more than 1,925 miles of coastline, only a little more than half of the nation's fish needs are being met by the French fishing industry. Imports continue to rise.
On Aug. 13, the country's fishermen threw their support behind their colleagues in Poulouse, who had struck earlier in the month. Almost all of them tailed ports, commercial ports and pleasure harbors were blockaded.
Fearing a threat to the country's petroleum supplies, Barre ordered the navy last week to break a blockade at a Mediterranean port, which was France's largest oil reception point. Barre announced he would stand for no interruption of France's vital supplies.
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