Effective immediately, the Postal Service™ has awarded a task order for the new travel charge card program to Citibank. The Postal Service has received permission to begin the new travel charge card program prior to the end of the General Services Administration (GSA) SmartPay 1 contract expiration. The new travel charge card will be active on November 19. Employees who currently have a Citibank travel charge card should expect to receive their new travel charge cards by October 31. Employees must call the number on the front of the new card to verify receipt of the card as soon as they receive it. Any cards for which receipt is not verified will not be activated on November 19.
The card will continue to be a VISA-brand card. This task order has been issued under the provision of the GSA SmartPay 2 Program and will be in effect for 10 years beginning November 30, 2008. Citibank has served as the Postal Service’s travel charge card provider since 1998 under the current GSA SmartPay 1 contract that expires on November 29, 2008.
The new GSA SmartPay 2 contract is in the best interest of the Postal Service and will meet all of our business travel needs going forward. The GSA SmartPay 2 travel charge card program provides numerous benefits to the Postal Service including:
More details concerning the new travel card program will be published in official publications over the next few months in addition to the travel card section of the travelhelp Web site available from the Blue page under “Employee Resources” by clicking travelhelp and also at http://blue.usps.gov/travelhelp/.
— Corporate Accounting,
Finance, 8-28-08
