Management Instructions

New Management Instruction FM-640-2008-1, Expenses for Internal and External Events

Effective September 10, 2008, Management Instruction (MI) FM-640-2008-1, Expenses for Internal and External Events, makes obsolete MI FM-640-2001-4, Payment for Meals and Refreshments, and MI FM-640-1999-3, Travel Expense Charges for Meetings. This new MI provides pol­icy and procedures for purchase and payment of official Postal Service™ business for both internal and exter­nal event-related expenses. It also references related pol­icy and procedures contained in other Postal Service directives.

This MI is available on the Postal Service™ Policy­Net website:

(The direct URL for the Postal Service PolicyNet website is http://blue.usps.gov/cpim.)