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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This idea is active.Ideas to Make Other Parts of Government More Efficient and Effective »Add your comment for Idea: Postage Stamps -
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This idea is active.Ideas to Make Other Parts of Government More Efficient and Effective »Expect Hired People to Move Closer to Job
In our agency poeple are hired that live hundres of miles from where the new job is and then they do not move closer to where they work. They are not renting a room closer either, just expected to get per diem everyday and living at hotels at the governments expense.The jobs here do require alot of travel, but to take a job and then expect to be in travel status all the time is just wrong. No one wants to do the jobs ...more »
4 comments for Idea: Expect Hired People to Move Closer to JobIn our agency poeple are hired that live hundres of miles from where the new job is and then they do not move closer to where they work. They are not renting a room closer either, just expected to get per diem everyday and living at hotels at the governments expense.The jobs here do require alot of travel, but to take a job and then expect to be in travel status all the time is just wrong. No one wants to do the jobs that are local to our office because then they will not be getting travel allowances.
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This idea is active.Ideas to Make Other Parts of Government More Efficient and Effective »Combine Payroll Systems
Add your comment for Idea: Combine Payroll SystemsCombine all payrool systems into one. This would save money by less programs needing to be created and or maintained. My agency still uses the paper form OPM71 for leave requests.
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This idea is active.Increasing Trade, Exports, and Overall Competitiveness »Buy American
4 comments for Idea: Buy AmericanEveryone purchasing supplies for the government should have to buy American made supplies. It would porbably cost more but, it would give more American companies opportunities. This would lead to more jobs for Americans and then possibly more exports.
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This idea is active.Ideas to Make Other Parts of Government More Efficient and Effective »Scanning instead of shipping
3 comments for Idea: Scanning instead of shippingMSHA field offices on a daily basis mail reports into district offices and could save considerable shipping money and trees by purchasing adequate scanners to scan reports in. Then reports could be emailed or put onto a shared drive. Many of the reports are several hundred pages long and the pages come from multiple sources so a PDF file would not work easily for this.
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This idea is active.Ideas to Make Other Parts of Government More Efficient and Effective »Increase TDY Travel
1 comment for Idea: Increase TDY TravelTravel distance for local travel should be increased to 60 miles from 50 miles and the distance should be enforced.
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This idea is active.Ideas to Make Other Parts of Government More Efficient and Effective »Meals while on TDY
When in travel status and staying a hotel that provides breakfast, you should not be allowed to also get per diem for that meal. For example just in my district if we have 100 people traveling for one week (4 nights), if they all were not allowed to take the $7 for breakfast, then that would save $2800. And that is just in one agency, one distrcit, one week. When you multiply that by 52 weeks that's $145,600, and we ...more »
4 comments for Idea: Meals while on TDYWhen in travel status and staying a hotel that provides breakfast, you should not be allowed to also get per diem for that meal. For example just in my district if we have 100 people traveling for one week (4 nights), if they all were not allowed to take the $7 for breakfast, then that would save $2800. And that is just in one agency, one distrcit, one week. When you multiply that by 52 weeks that's $145,600, and we are still only talking about one district in one agency. When you multiply that out across the whole government, you are talking about millions of dollars just by not allowing travelers to cliam the $7 for a meal that is being provided to them anyway.
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