Originally Posted by
socrates
let me put some mud in this discussion to make it clearer (yes poor attempt at humor)
US Postal Service Employees are employees of a government chartered agency but are not direct employees of the Federal Government and do not meet Marriott's requirements for ID
To put further mud in this discussion, I traveled as a consultant working for USPS for 7 years. I never claimed the government rate (unless there was a government contractor rate, which some places do have). However, on a number of occasions I traveled with USPS employees who always used the government rate. They were never denied the rate and on the occasions that they were asked to show ID, their USPS ID was sufficient with no further questions.