Effective immediately, Handbook F-15, Travel and Relocation, is revised to reflect reimbursement rates for travel and relocation.
Handbook F-15, Travel and Relocation
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Appendix A Rates
A-1 Standard Mileage Rates
A-1.1 Mileage Rates
[Revise text of A-1.1 to read as follows:]
Effective immediately, the Postal Service will no longer publish mileage rates in annual Postal Bulletin issues. The Postal Service changes mileage rates on an annual calendar year basis based on the rates published by GSA at www.gsa.gov.
A-1.2 Reimbursement for Postal Service Supervisors
[Revise text of A-1.2 to read as follows:]
Postal Service supervisors (see 5-5.2.1.2) will be reimbursed at the rate of $6.00 per day or the GSA rate per mile, whichever is greater, when a privately owned vehicle is used. Do not use the eTravel system when claiming the $6.00 daily rate, because the excess of the daily rate over the actual mileage is taxable as compensation to the claimant. You should claim the $6.00 daily rate by submitting PS Form 1164-A, Claim for Reimbursement for Postal Supervisors, to the Scanning and Imaging Center.
Odometer readings are not required on the respective claim forms; the integrity of the claim is the responsibility of the traveler. However, should the approving official have reason to question the claim, the claimant must provide evidence that supports the claim of distance traveled.
A-2 Travel Per Diem Rates
[Revise A-2 deleting A-2.1 to A-2.5 and adding text under A-2 to read as follows:]
Effective immediately, the Postal Service will no longer publish annual per diem rates.
Domestic per diem rates for the continental United States (except for Norman, Oklahoma) are available on the GSA website at www.gsa.gov/perdiem.
Domestic per diem rates for the noncontinental United States (Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and U.S. possessions) will follow the rate for GSA’s high-cost locations. These rates can be found by checking the meals and incidental expenses breakdown rates on GSA’s website at www.gsa.gov/perdiem; under “Per Diem,” click M&IE Breakdown.
International per diem rates are available on the Department of State’s website at http://aoprals.state.gov; under “Per Diem Rates,” click Foreign Per Diem Rates.
The per diem rate for Norman, Oklahoma, is as follows:
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We will incorporate these revisions into the next printed edition of Handbook F-15 and into the next update of the online version accessible on the Postal Service™ PolicyNet website:
n Go to http://blue.usps.gov.
n Under “Essential Links” in the left-hand column, click PolicyNet.
n On the PolicyNet page, click HBKs.
(The direct URL for the Postal Service PolicyNet website is http://blue.usps.gov/cpim.)
— Assets & Payables,
Controller, 3-24-11
