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  Centralized Teleconference Support Center for Fed. Govt! $AVE

  It seems like every Agency and Department has their own and I recently saw their budget for one Agency, wow! It is time we have centralized services across the federal government and mandate they be used. One service center, one budget, one contract. It doesn't have to be all of audio visual just the teleconference piece that can be easily managed remotely. Book a line on web or call a call center to schedule. No ...more »

  It seems like every Agency and Department has their own and I recently saw their budget for one Agency, wow!

  It is time we have centralized services across the federal government and mandate they be used. One service center, one budget, one contract. It doesn't have to be all of audio visual just the teleconference piece that can be easily managed remotely.

  Book a line on web or call a call center to schedule. No more using an up to 15 line for a meeting that has 20 participants - better options at less price and lower redundancy!

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  Goverment sponsered open source operating systems and apps

  Save the annual license costs incurred for using operating systems, business productivity applications, and other common infrastructure systems, by federally sponsering, contributing, coordinating, supporting, and standardizing on an open source operating system, open source business productivity software, and other standard IT applications. Similar to foreign governments creating their versions of operating systems. ...more »

  Save the annual license costs incurred for using operating systems, business productivity applications, and other common infrastructure systems, by federally sponsering, contributing, coordinating, supporting, and standardizing on an open source operating system, open source business productivity software, and other standard IT applications. Similar to foreign governments creating their versions of operating systems. By providing and distributing a standard open source image it could save the costs incurred at branch offices to create, distribute, standardize, and secure local workstations and servers. It would provide more incentive for application developers companies to develop to an open source operating system.

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  Federal LEOs physical fitness test

  Federal Law Enforcement Officers should need to pass a bi-annual physical fitness test. If they carry a gun, they should also be able to walk up a flight of stairs.

  Physically fit law enforcement agencies/departments could save the Fed Gov lots of money.

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  Medical Tourism in US

  Suggest selecting few locations at great vacation areas for non-emergency surgeries like knee replacement, back surgeries and others. Send patient to those sites for selected procedures with travel expenses and their spouses can tag along. It would be easier to hire qualified professionals at these vacation areas and patients would be happy to go for small vacation also. This would significantly decrease Fee Basis money ...more »

  Suggest selecting few locations at great vacation areas for non-emergency surgeries like knee replacement, back surgeries and others. Send patient to those sites for selected procedures with travel expenses and their spouses can tag along. It would be easier to hire qualified professionals at these vacation areas and patients would be happy to go for small vacation also. This would significantly decrease Fee Basis money and improve patient satisfaction.

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  PPA to require discounts on all government contracts

  Amend the prompt payment act to REQUIRE any vendor doing business with the government to offer a discount equivalent to the interest earned on payments that are made late. This could be in the form of a discounted unit price or a percentage off if paid within a specified time frame, as dictated by contract. Charging the government full rate or higher, in some instances, enriches the vendor at the cost of the taxpayer. ...more »

  Amend the prompt payment act to REQUIRE any vendor doing business with the government to offer a discount equivalent to the interest earned on

  payments that are made late. This could be in the form of a discounted unit price or a percentage off if paid within a specified time frame, as dictated by contract. Charging the government full rate or higher, in some instances, enriches the vendor at the cost of the taxpayer.

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  Working Supervisors

  Suggest that all supervisors work as front line staff for one week every quarter - total 4 weeks a month. This would provide supervisor with recent experience of front line staff work environment and can relate to staff better. This would also save four weeks worth of salary (save money).

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  Eliminate / Reduce the # of Politcal Appointees

  Has anyone questioned the need for all these political appointed positions? In these times of budget cut backs why do we need these types of positions? If the current SES positions cannot support the President's programs then their performance metrics are not properly established. The current SES and higher level GS employees should be able to provide the guidance and advice for the implementation of change within their ...more »

  Has anyone questioned the need for all these political appointed positions? In these times of budget cut backs why do we need these types of positions? If the current SES positions cannot support the President's programs then their performance metrics are not properly established. The current SES and higher level GS employees should be able to provide the guidance and advice for the implementation of change within their agencies. Instead of removing political appointed positions from the appointment process why not eliminate them thereby reducing the number of political appointees that need to be confirmed. This would save some money while showing that the Administration has faith in the Federal employees helping the President to achieve their objectives. The Federal employees’ have the knowledge and the ability to implement change when they are allowed to be involved in the decision making and transition process. Running the government is not the same as running a private business. Not all processes that a private business will use can be applied within the federal government. Why the Federal Government is providing a service and where it’s funding come from are two key fundamental differences. The Federal Managers have some room to work but ultimately it has to fit within the framework of the legislation written, and passed by Congress and signed into law by the President. If the political appointee is that good and wants to work for the President, then they should apply for the job just like the rest of us. The President has the power to pull from the existing workforce to create his committees and task forces. What the President could do is also appoint a moderator from private industry to keep the focus and ask the hard questions of the committee or task force members. If the committees and task forces are made up of the people who will have to implement the change we just might see it happen in a timely and cost efficient manner.

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  Reduction of Federal Workforce Through Attrition

  As the baby boomers retire and leave federal service, do not replace them with additional personnel. Use existing personnel to cover the workload of these people leaving. Get serious about and agressively implement the continuous improvement techniques of Lean Six Sigma (LSS) to streamline business processes and literally get more done with less. This policy should be implemented by Presidential mandate and apply to ...more »

  As the baby boomers retire and leave federal service, do not replace them with additional personnel. Use existing personnel to cover the workload of these people leaving. Get serious about and agressively implement the continuous improvement techniques of Lean Six Sigma (LSS) to streamline business processes and literally get more done with less. This policy should be implemented by Presidential mandate and apply to ALL federal agencies.

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  Intelligent Power Strips

  It is vital for the government to start adopting the energy efficiency programs already proved successful by major companies around the world. The government could save millions of dollars a year by simply making it mandatory for government facilities to have intelligent power strips. There are intelligent power strips that are designed for many different types of usage. From the average office work space to a giant server ...more »

  It is vital for the government to start adopting the energy efficiency programs already proved successful by major companies around the world. The government could save millions of dollars a year by simply making it mandatory for government facilities to have intelligent power strips. There are intelligent power strips that are designed for many different types of usage. From the average office work space to a giant server room using 100 times the amount of energy of a typical office building, there is an intelligent power strip the government could use to save money.

  The government would need to make a large investment to ensure the technology and policies are put in place, but the intelligent power strips would pay for themselves within the first year. The government cannot afford to ignore the methods already being used by Fortune 500 companies. Intelligent power strips can provide the government with a fail-safe way to save money and promote green technologies. The mandatory usage of intelligent power strips is a tangible, measurable, and realistic idea that will surely save government dollars.

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  Eco-font. Save 28.1% in toner. Use same fonts, look the same.

  http://www.ecofont.com/en/products/green/font/download-the-ink-saving-font.html This free, widely-used, enhancement to the fonts you already use, saves 28.1% in toner, by printing letters in a swiss-cheese manner, saving on the holes. The holes are invisible to the reader at 10-14 size fonts. The coverage of a printed document can be analyzed with software (Apfill). Print a page, for example with Arial and then print ...more »

  http://www.ecofont.com/en/products/green/font/download-the-ink-saving-font.html

  This free, widely-used, enhancement to the fonts you already use, saves 28.1% in toner, by printing letters in a swiss-cheese manner, saving on the holes. The holes are invisible to the reader at 10-14 size fonts. The coverage of a printed document can be analyzed with software (Apfill). Print a page, for example with Arial and then print the same text with Ecofont Arial. Scan both documents at a high resolution (minimum of 300dpi) and analyze the coverage of both documents for savings evidence. The test result is a toner saving of 28.1% (tested for Arial and Ecofont Arial 12pts).

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  Consolidate National Weather Service Engineering Services

  Some of the National Weather Service engineering, regarding weather radar in particular, is done at Norman, OKlahoma in coordination with the FAA and the US Air Force. Some engineering is accomplished at a main engineering facility in Silver Spring, MD.. Still other engineering is accomplished at the 6 regional headquarters offices and here and there and everywhere. The National Weather Service Logistics Center is located ...more »

  Some of the National Weather Service engineering, regarding weather radar in particular, is done at Norman, OKlahoma in coordination with the FAA and the US Air Force. Some engineering is accomplished at a main engineering facility in Silver Spring, MD.. Still other engineering is accomplished at the 6 regional headquarters offices and here and there and everywhere. The National Weather Service Logistics Center is located in Kansas City, MO. The National Weather Service, National Repair Center (NRC) is located in Kansas City, MO. The National Weather Service Training Center is located in Kansas City, MO. The Severe Storms Center is located in Kansas City, MO. The Central Region Headquarters is located in Kansas City, MO. When you think of where you could consolidate engineering services, Kansas City, MO comes to mind. It's not rocket science: if you have a highly-fractured engineering service, it's gonna probably be more ineffective and inefficient than it could be. I believe if NWS Engineering Services were to consolidate in KC, MO it would save millions and make our engineering services more, "productive".

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  Is It Just My Agency?

  I'm pretty amazed at the number of ideas that are presented as new that have actually been in place for years at mine, especially recycling, and paperless processes. There isn't a good way to learn what other departments/agencies are doing. What if we had a tab that let folks check to see if the idea has already been implemented? Priorities, budgets, lack of vision, some restriction or preceived restriction alre just ...more »

  I'm pretty amazed at the number of ideas that are presented as new that have actually been in place for years at mine, especially recycling, and paperless processes.

  There isn't a good way to learn what other departments/agencies are doing. What if we had a tab that let folks check to see if the idea has already been implemented? Priorities, budgets, lack of vision, some restriction or preceived restriction alre just a few reasons some organizations don't implement good business practices, innovate, or haven't updated their technology.

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  National Speed Limits

  The government has no business talking about Green anything and promoting speed limits to 65 & 70. Cafe standards use the old lower speed limit and did not calculate ethanol fuel. The higher speed limit contributes to greatly increased green house emissions as a result of decreased mileage and increased fuel usage. If the situation was any stupider, we would open up like an Autobahn and make 1 mpg with your Prius while ...more »

  The government has no business talking about Green anything and promoting speed limits to 65 & 70. Cafe standards use the old lower speed limit and did not calculate ethanol fuel. The higher speed limit contributes to greatly increased green house emissions as a result of decreased mileage and increased fuel usage. If the situation was any stupider, we would open up like an Autobahn and make 1 mpg with your Prius while going 110 mph.

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  Remove the Ethanol out of the fuel we use

  Ethanol provides less energy by volume of any liquid fuel used in transportation. It is as bad as 26% less Mpg in an Suv with a V8 as proven by Consumer Reports. Ethanol fuel produces more bad green house emissions by volume than regular gasoline. Putting 10% more fuel on the market by going to ethanol offset with Mpg go down more than the gain was a mistake. Get all ethanol fuel out of gas, watch the Mpg go up and food ...more »

  Ethanol provides less energy by volume of any liquid fuel used in transportation. It is as bad as 26% less Mpg in an Suv with a V8 as proven by Consumer Reports. Ethanol fuel produces more bad green house emissions by volume than regular gasoline. Putting 10% more fuel on the market by going to ethanol offset with Mpg go down more than the gain was a mistake. Get all ethanol fuel out of gas, watch the Mpg go up and food prices go down. If the situation was any worse, you could write a consipiracy paper on the situation.

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  Enforce Tax Exempt Status

  Stop paying an average of 51cent on the dollar for state and fed taxes on the fuel we purchase for governement vehicles. The fed pumps billions of dollars a year into states for roads, highways, byways and bridges. Why do we pay those fees and tolls?

  Eliminate this waste, save money and pump those savings into telework, development of more efficient vehicles to use.

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  Postage Stamps

  All government postage stamps shoud have the words "For official government business only" on the stamp. This would save money by having fewer stamps used for private mail.

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  One Day Off and rotation starting from the TOP DOWN.

  One Day Off or Furlough for one day starting from the top down to military and civilians. This idea would save the Government and the U.S.A. Nation funds on a yearly basis. The idea is spreading the furlough to all Government and Military but NOT at the SAME TIME. For God sake what is this government Idea on FURLOUGH EVERY ONE AT THE SAME TIME. I am putting this on bullets for simplicity, so the idea can be escalated ...more »

  One Day Off or Furlough for one day starting from the top down to military and civilians.

  This idea would save the Government and the U.S.A. Nation funds on a yearly basis. The idea is spreading the furlough to all Government and Military but NOT at the SAME TIME. For God sake what is this government Idea on FURLOUGH EVERY ONE AT THE SAME TIME. I am putting this on bullets for simplicity, so the idea can be escalated accordingly and steps can be added or removed.

  1- Spread the furlough to Government employees and military to only one DAY (a day off without pay) but distributing the load to different employees at different time frame (not all at the same time.)

  2- Starting from the President down to the Vice-President, Congressman, Senate everybody would received a day off without pay.

  3- On the other hand, the same for all Military branches, starting from the top down, one day off without pay for generals, commanders, officers, and enlisted. Everyone will take it but not at the same time.

  4- PAY Roll has to be set up to accommodate for this day off ensuring the day is not pay accordingly to the proposal. And not like few years ago when EVERYONE was off and EVERYONE still received payment for the days off. A nice free vacation with payment included.

  5- We all need to remember, even if the president does not receive pay for one day, he is still the president with decision to make on HIS DAY OFF. And same thing with every military commander, pretty much they all giving a day off without pay but their executive officer or next in the change of command will be incharged.

  6- There is always a backup plan when 25 or 50% of an outfit organization is off duty, the other 50% takes over and performs the function of the office. As the norm when a supervisor is off the next level supervisor takes charge until current supervisor comes back.

  7- Do this for one year, equally shared to all branches of the government and military. Analyze the cost saving and if it works and does not hurt anyone, make it a proposal and mandate to future years.

  8- This also can be implemented to States Government hierarchy.

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  Let political parties pay for political primary elections.

  Why do the taxpayers have to pay for POLITICAL primaries? We should not have to pay for anything political. I have no problem paying for an election but put everyone on the ballot. If a party wants to narrow the field let them pay for it.

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  Adopt the S1000D standard

  Adopting the S1000D international standard for technical publications would allow the entire government to be able to share information more easily. The information, once put into a common source database, would be able to be used by whomever needed it. And once it is placed there, the need for reentering the data is not needed, threrby decreasing the costs of rewriting and reediting the work. Most major companies ...more »

  Adopting the S1000D international standard for technical publications would allow the entire government to be able to share information more easily. The information, once put into a common source database, would be able to be used by whomever needed it. And once it is placed there, the need for reentering the data is not needed, threrby decreasing the costs of rewriting and reediting the work. Most major companies have begun to adopt the standard.

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  Use transparency to reduce overhead costs

  Transparency is a powerful cost saving tool. The Combined Federal Campaign started publishing the percentage of contributions that charities used for administrative and overhead costs after a financial scandal at United Way threatened the integrity of the campaign. It set a bar of 25%. Contributors began making more informed decisions and charities reduced their overhead costs over time to get below the bar. We could ...more »

  Transparency is a powerful cost saving tool. The Combined Federal Campaign started publishing the percentage of contributions that charities used for administrative and overhead costs after a financial scandal at United Way threatened the integrity of the campaign. It set a bar of 25%. Contributors began making more informed decisions and charities reduced their overhead costs over time to get below the bar.

  We could take the same approach to reduce health insurance costs. Under the Affordable Care Act, insurance companies will be required to spend 80 to 85 percent of premium dollars on medical care and health care quality improvement, rather than on administrative costs, starting in 2011. If they don’t, the insurance companies will be required to provide a rebate to their customers starting in 2012. What if OPM published the % of administrative and profit for each provider in the FEHBP at open season. We would begin to assess the value of our insurance differently and make different decisions. Companies would have to reduce costs to be competitive.

  We could require doctors to do the same. That would push them to reduce costs and embrace cost saving electronic billing options and record- keeping.

  My electricity provider enables customers to compare what they pay per month to what other customers in comparable (e.g., size of home) areas pay. It has found that customers change their usage because they have a measure of what is achievable in cost reduction.

  Contracts are another area where transparency could affect costs. We need to push companies to be more efficient and reduce administrative and overhead costs on government contracts and especially on sub-contractor costs. The costs for specialized and high-end technical expertise are very high and so is the overhead. How much are we paying for healthcare and other benefits, how much are we paying for facilities and other overhead costs like clearance processes and compliance.

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  FREE HOMES. NO MORTGAGES. FREE FOOD FREE MEDICAL INSURANCE

  section 8 and low income housing encourages dependency and complacent behavior. Why work when you can get a house for practically free and keep collecting entitlements. ILLLEGAL squatting and unauthrized people live with a legal tenet often and this is a criminal offense since changes in family size and income are required to be reported. the section 8 system and low income housing system is a complete failure which has ...more »

  section 8 and low income housing encourages dependency and complacent behavior. Why work when you can get a house for practically free and keep collecting entitlements. ILLLEGAL squatting and unauthrized people live with a legal tenet often and this is a criminal offense since changes in family size and income are required to be reported. the section 8 system and low income housing system is a complete failure which has drained the US economy of trillions of dollars and maintained tenets in social and financial bondage. there is no incentive to leave section 8 or low income housing. why work or attend college when you can get housing for free or low cost. This encouranges drug abuse and out of wedlock births and tenet abuse by housing squatters and unauthorized people living in the units. section 8 and low income housing also reduce local taxpayers home values and create blighted neighborhoods with loud music and cars with dark windows and dirty messy yards often with dirt as a yard.. SECTION 8 and LOW INCOME HOUSING TENETS NEED TIME LIMITS of 1 to 3 years then they must be evicted from the units since they are living on free enititlements and have no incentive to Raise themselves out of the free benefits. WAKE UP AMERICA! WE ARE TRILLIONS IN DEBT and giving away FREE BENEFITS . remember that all secion 8 and low income housing authoritys are TAX FREE and you pay the costs of educating the people and their rents are susidized and food and insurance are subsidized and paid for. its like the midlle and upper class is paying triple to live, we all have to pay for everyone else.. its not fair..http://www.hud.gov/complaints/fraud_waste.cfm

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  A Trillion Dollar waste - WELFARE,section8 ,low income housing

  http://www.hud.gov/complaints/fraud_waste.cfm -section 8 and low income housing encourages dependency and complacent behavior. Why work when you can get a house for practically free and keep collecting entitlements. ILLLEGAL squatting and unauthrized people live with a legal tenet often and this is a criminal offense since changes in family size and income are required to be reported. the section 8 system and low income ...more »

  http://www.hud.gov/complaints/fraud_waste.cfm -section 8 and low income housing encourages dependency and complacent behavior. Why work when you can get a house for practically free and keep collecting entitlements. ILLLEGAL squatting and unauthrized people live with a legal tenet often and this is a criminal offense since changes in family size and income are required to be reported. the section 8 system and low income housing system is a complete failure which has drained the US economy of trillions of dollars and maintained tenets in social and financial bondage. there is no incentive to leave section 8 or low income housing. why work or attend college when you can get housing for free or low cost. This encouranges drug abuse and out of wedlock births and tenet abuse by housing squatters and unauthorized people living in the units. section 8 and low income housing also reduce local taxpayers home values and create blighted neighborhoods with loud music and cars with dark windows and dirty messy yards often with dirt as a yard.. SECTION 8 and LOW INCOME HOUSING TENETS NEED TIME LIMITS of 1 to 3 years then they must be evicted from the units since they are living on free enititlements and have no incentive to Raise themselves out of the free benefits. WAKE UP AMERICA! WE ARE TRILLIONS IN DEBT and giving away FREE BENEFITS . remember that all secion 8 and low income housing authoritys are TAX FREE and you pay the costs of educating the people and their rents are susidized and food and insurance are subsidized and paid for. its like the midlle and upper class is paying triple to live, we all have to pay for everyone else.. its not fair..http://www.hud.gov/complaints/fraud_waste.cfm

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  Take top 25 submissions and top 25 contributors for discussion

  I like most ideas on this website. I think that most ideas have come from somebody who is trying to do a great job at what they do. It has become so difficult to navigate through that, I have decided to take 15 minutes out of my day to dedicate to this at home on my own time. I believe that the top 25 contributors and top 25 idea submitters should be invited to bring their heads together and discuss what is really ...more »

  I like most ideas on this website. I think that most ideas have come from somebody who is trying to do a great job at what they do.

  It has become so difficult to navigate through that, I have decided to take 15 minutes out of my day to dedicate to this at home on my own time.

  I believe that the top 25 contributors and top 25 idea submitters should be invited to bring their heads together and discuss what is really important to their agency and to the federal government as a whole.

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  Eliminate Unnecessary Calibration (and cost) of Army Equipment

  The Army National Guard spends Millions (at least) administering a program (Calibration/TMDE) which tests and calibrates special equipment which otherwise sits in storage. Calibration tests are recurring and range from every 6 months to once every two years. Damage to equipment occurs mainly when being transported to and from the calibration/test facility. Equipment is moved back and forth either by hand or insured ...more »

  The Army National Guard spends Millions (at least) administering a program (Calibration/TMDE) which tests and calibrates special equipment which otherwise sits in storage. Calibration tests are recurring and range from every 6 months to once every two years. Damage to equipment occurs mainly when being transported to and from the calibration/test facility. Equipment is moved back and forth either by hand or insured parcel post to in-state or out of state labs.

  I propose that the calibration on Army equipment (pressure gauges, torque wrenches, electronic measuring devices, etc) be reduced to: 1) a determined amount of equipment that is actually regularly used for training and recurring missions, 2) equipment that would be required for immediate use in disaster response (Chemical-Biological-Radiological-Nuclear, etc detection equipment).

  All other equipment should only be calibrated prior to a reserve unit being deployed with this equipment.

  This would reduce costs:

  -charged by one part of the government to another (US Army Anniston Alabama labs charge individual states for their services)

  -assocated multiple recurring shipping costs (often insured value over $10,000)

  -reduction of required full time work force performing "busy-work" testing equipment that is not used

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  Military Publications Ordering - Add Checks & Balances

  Currently, National Guard organizations have almost unlimited access to order (offical government) publications (Equipment Technical Manuals, Training Manuals, Etc) in any quantity and with any frequency desired. This enables waste through duplicate ordering, and ordering publications not relevant to the unit's mission/equipment. Inexperienced publication system users are able to easily create erroneous massive ...more »

  Currently, National Guard organizations have almost unlimited access to order (offical government) publications (Equipment Technical Manuals, Training Manuals, Etc) in any quantity and with any frequency desired.

  This enables waste through duplicate ordering, and ordering publications not relevant to the unit's mission/equipment. Inexperienced publication system users are able to easily create erroneous massive orders which result in boxes upon boxes of irrelevant publications arriving on their doorstep.

  Many of these publications contain restricted information, and proper disposal becomes an additional cost.

  I suggest that the ordering of publications be reviewed and include visibility of order cost, as well as cross-checking publications ordered against equipment records to validate need and quantity.

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