Use of Postal Credit Cards

• Misuse of a postal credit card can result in discipline or removal from your job.
• Postal credit cards may only be used for official travelrelated expenses. Don’t use it for airline tickets to visit friends or family, for gambling at a casino – even while on official travel (we don’t make these things up!), or purchasing personal items.

Using the postal credit card only for its intended purposes helps the Postal Service control expenses, which contributes to the financial health of the Postal Service.

And that’s smart business.

Contact the Ethics Office (ethics.help@usps.gov) if you need more guidance. But you shouldn’t really need more guidance on this one, should you?

Special Access

When you get this question, stop and think before you act.

Using your postal contacts or position to help relative or friend may be a misuse of your position.

If you would provide the help for anyone, it’s probably fine.

But, if you are doing it because of the person asking for the favor, you are providing special access and misusing your position.

Providing a level playing field for all of customers and suppliers enhances Postal Service’s reputation for fairness and honesty in business.

And that’s smart business.

Contact the Ethics Office (ethics.help@usps.gov) for more guidance.