Postal Bulletin 22086 - October 3, 2002 - USPS.com® - About

POSTAL BULLETIN 22086 (10-3-02)
(PIN) to use PostalEASE (for information on PINs, see
USPS PIN and TSP PIN below).
Note: Personnel and employing offices must not distribute
Form TSP-1, Thrift Savings Plan Election Form, to employees
for making TSP open season elections. TSP-1 is
no longer stocked at the MDC.
Contacting TSP to Make a Fund Investment
Election
Employees have three methods to make a fund investment
election as follows:
Web site: Go to the TSP Web site at www.tsp.gov.
Phone: Call the TSP ThriftLine at 504-255-8777.
Mail: Mail form TSP-50, Investment Allocation, to
the TSP service office in New Orleans.
Note: Personnel offices must not accept and cannot
process completed forms TSP-50. Form TSP-50 is not
available from the TSP Web site. Form TSP-50 is available
from the MDC. The relevant ordering information for form
TSP-50 is as follows:
PSN: 7530-05-000-4305
Unit of Issue: EA
Bulk Pack Qty: 3800
Price: No cost
Edition Date: 08/02
The TSP Web site and ThriftLine are convenient methods
for making fund investment elections and elections will
take effect more quickly than using form TSP-50. To use
the TSP Web site or TSP ThriftLine, use your TSP PIN.
Using Pins to Make TSP Elections
To make TSP elections, use two PINs: USPS PIN and
TSP PIN.
USPS PIN
The Postal Service maintains the USPS PIN. Use your
USPS PIN to (1) begin a contribution percentage or a dollar
amount election, or (2) change your current TSP contribution
percentage or dollar amount, or (3) cancel TSP participation
via PostalEASE. If you do not know your USPS PIN,
you must call PostalEASE and do the following steps when
prompted: (1) press 1 for PostalEASE; (2) enter your
Social Security number; (3) enter your PIN, pause, and
then press 2. Your USPS PIN will be mailed to your address
of record, usually by the next business day.
Note: When you request your USPS PIN, your
USPS PIN does not change (unlike the TSP PIN). Your
old USPS PIN remains valid. (The USPS PIN is the
same PIN employees use for telephone bidding and computerized
bidding.)
TSP PIN
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The TSP PIN is maintained by TSP. You must use your
TSP PIN to make fund investment choices via the TSP
Web site or the TSP ThriftLine. If you are a TSP participant
and you do not know your TSP PIN, you have three methods
for having a new TSP PIN mailed to your address of
record:
1. Go to the TSP Web site at www.tsp.gov and select
Account Access, or
2. Call the TSP ThriftLine at 504-255-8777, choose 2,
enter your Social Security number, and then follow
the instructions, or
3. Call the TSP service office at 504-255-6000.
Once TSP has received your TSP PIN request, your former
TSP PIN is no longer valid.
Direct Mailings to Employees
Career employees receive from the national level a direct
mailing of leaflet TSP1002, TSP Open Season, and
PostalEASE instructions at their mailing addresses of record
during October.
In addition to receiving TSP1002, newly eligible career
employees receive from the national level a direct mailing
of TSPBK08, Summary of the Thrift Savings Plan for Federal
Employees, as well as a cover letter and PostalEASE
instructions at their mailing addresses of record soon after
their accession PS Form 50, Notification of Personnel
Action, is processed.
The return address for undeliverable TSP enrollment instructions
for newly eligible employees is the employing office
of record. The disposition of returned items is at the
discretion of the district office or other administering office.
Forwarding a returned enrollment package to an employee
offers that employee an opportunity to submit a correct PS
Form 1216, Employee’s Current Mailing Address, available
at the MDC. Ordering information for PS Form 1216 is as
follows:
PSN: 7530-02-000-7354
Quick Pick Number: 118
Unit of Issue: SE
Bulk Pack Qty: 4,000
Price: 0.0171
Edition Date: 06/93
Eligibility
All career employees are eligible to make employee
contribution elections this open season (subject to financial
hardship withdrawal and cancellation exclusions). FERS
employees hired before July 1, 2002, receive Agency Automatic
(1 percent) Contributions and Agency Matching Contributions
(as appropriate) beginning in December 2002.