Postal Service Tops in Trust Ratings
By Tom Shoop | Tuesday, April 08, 2008 | 09:45 AM
By Tom Shoop | Tuesday, April 08, 2008 | 09:45 AM
In an annual survey conducted by a think tank devoted to assessing privacy issues, the U.S. Postal Service is rated by Americans as the most trusted government agency -- for the fourth year in a row.
In the Ponemon Institute report, which assessed 74 federal agencies, the Postal Service earned a "privacy trust score" of 86 percent, up from 83 percent last year. The other top trusted agencies were the Federal Trade Commission, the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, the Census Bureau and the National Institutes of Health.
The least trusted agencies were U.S. Customs and Border Protection (with a score of only 20 percent), the National Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Justice Department and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. That's not a surprising list, given the hot-button nature of immigration issues, recent scandals at Justice and the super-secret mission of spy agencies.
Comments
Overall, the letter carriers of USPS are like having a good citizen traveling through your neigberhood six days a week.
Letter carrirs have been responsible for saving countless lives every year. They have even help capture crooks. Many times they have been the first to call the fire department or ambulance to aid potential victims. With over 200,000 city letter carriers and the many rural route carriers, they cover most of the United States six days a week. The next time you talk to a letter carrier, tell him/her, thanks for being a good citizen.
The only thing I trust the Postal Service to do is raise rates and have clerks who never smile.
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Government Executive Editor Tom Shoop takes a look at news and events affecting the federal bureaucracy, from the perspective of a longtime observer of government.
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