In anticipation of implementation of the new SmartPay 2 travel card program effective October 31, 2008, applications for individually billed cards under the old travel card program will not be processed. Applications received after October 31 will be held for processing until November 19, 2008, the effective date of the new travel card program.
Nonbargaining unit employees who must travel between October 31 and November 19 and are eligible for, but do not yet have, an individually billed travel card may request that their airline and train tickets be charged to the USPS® centrally billed travel card by contacting their travel card program coordinator. You can find a list of the coordinators at http://blue.usps.gov/travelhelp/_xls/Change Coordinators.xls.
During this period, these employees may obtain cash advances for hotel bills and per diem using PS Form 1011, Travel Advance Request and Itinerary Schedule, as described in subchapter 4-2 of Handbook F-15.
Use of the centrally billed travel card is not an option for nonbargaining unit employees who have had their travel card revoked, as explained in Management Instruction FM-640-2004-1, Government-Issued, Individually Billed Travel Charge Cards.
— Corporate Accounting,
Controller, 10-23-08
