"...Regional airline hid nonperformance by falsifying barcode scans of mail bins...Air Cargo Carriers LLC, a turboprop freighter operator, paid the government more than $350,000 to settle charges that it manipulated shipping data to avoid late-delivery penalties under a U.S. Postal Service contract to transport mail in the Caribbean, FreightWaves has learned. ...identified a large number of containers that shared an exact two-hour difference between the load and delivery scan between 2018 and 2021. Metadata on bin identification tags showed that scans were not performed by a handheld scanner. Information, instead, was generated by an internal tracking system. Investigators determined that delivery information was inaccurate because the time and date was actually captured during loading."
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