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Post office employees say they’re being ordered to falsify scans showing packages have been delivered

Two United States Postal Service employees in Utah say their managers order employees to falsify delivery information on packages, causing local residents to worry that packages that are listed online as “delivered” have been dropped off at the wrong address or stolen.

The two employees told FOX 13 the delivery rates directly correlate to manager salaries. (Their identities were not revealed to protect their jobs.) They estimated that 10-20 percent of the packages that come through the post office in the weeks leading up to Christmas are falsely scanned; that the post office is understaffed an unable to keep up with the volume of deliveries at this time of year; and that the scans are falsified because managers' salaries are tied to the on-time delivery rates.