Please check with your supervisor regarding your scheduled meal break. It does not count as hours worked. Travel Time Travel time spent as part of your normal USPS job activity, such as traveling from job site to job site during your regularly scheduled working hours, is considered work time and must be recorded as such on your non-exempt timesheet. Travel to and from work is not counted as time worked. As a USPS employee, when traveling out of town during normal work hours on work assignments, regardless of the day of the week, your travel time is considered work time and ends upon arrival.
Overtime pay can take the form of either compensation or compensatory time off.
Such compensatory time off should be taken within six months from the date the overtime is performed and will be authorized at the rate of time and one-half compensatory time off. Your supervisor may require the time off for hours worked beyond the forty-hour workweek to be taken within the same workweek the hours were worked. At no time can a non-exempt employee accrue more than 120 hours of overtime comp. Time earned over 120 hours shall be paid during the biweekly in which it is earned or should be taken off with supervisory approval. USPS Regular compensatory leave is defined as the hours of work, excluding holidays and leave with pay, in excess of forty hours during the established workweek.