Mileage and your personal car…
Good day carriers,
If you are asked to use your personal car, you do not have to.
However, for CCAs this can cause an issue. If you refuse to use your car, management will try and get you a truck, but if there are none available, you might be sent home for the day, unpaid. This may also cause some animosity between the CCA and management, but there should be no retribution.
If you do end up using your car, you are authorized to be paid milage for the use of your car. This is about $0.60 a mile, but there are procedures you have to follow in order to get paid.
There are two ways to get paid by management. That is by a flat fee or mileage. The Seaford Management team has chosen to use a flat fee model. That means, unless it has changed, for every day you use your car you will get a flat fee of $14 added to your check. This may not come on the next check or even the next one. You need to keep track of the days you used your car and keep an eye on your check to make sure you get paid.
In order to get the flat fee for using your car while you are working in Seaford, here is a good procedures, though there could be others that management may instruct you to do:
- On each Friday, write down the days you used your personal vehicle.
- Put your name on it, the dates, the days, and sign it.
- Hand it to the Supervisor for them to initial it.
- Make a photocopy of it using the photocopier at the Supervisor’s desk.
- Hand the original to the Supervisor.
- Keep the copy for your records.
- Keep looking at your check stub and tell management if you don’t see the money for using your car within the next two paychecks.
On the check, it won’t say ‘car’, ‘mileage’, ‘personal use’. It used to say something like ‘drive out’. It might say something different now. Learn what all the codes and terminology is on your check. Look it up on Google or on the NALC.org website. If you don’t get paid, notify management as soon as possible.
If you end up using your card at another post office, check with Seaford Management to see if they will put you in for this flat fee at Seaford. If not, then you will need to keep track of mileage.
If you are sent to another office or anywhere else on a work day, you are entitled to mileage payments if you travel further than going from your home to the Seaford PO. For example, if it is ten miles to get to Seaford for work, but you are sent to another town to work and it’s fifteen miles away, you are entitled to ten miles of mileage. Five miles over the normal commute to get there and five miles back.
Check with Seaford Management on how to file those miles. They may do it on their computer or you may have to fill out mileage on LiteBlue.
Ask me any other questions you have, NalcSeafordAlternate1@Gmail.com
Or text me.
See you soon,
Dave