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United States Postal Service (USPS) Postal Abbreviations, Acronyms, Terms, and MODS Operations Numbers by Douglas Boynton Quine in a definition list format (over 1,840 text acronyms and over 910 numeric codes). This list is based upon acronyms observed in USPS press releases, the USPS Domestic Mail Manual, USPS Postal Bulletin, USPS Memo to Mailers, USPS Glossary of Postal Terms (pub. 32), philatelic publications, and personal communications from web site visitors including Terri Biasi. In cases where definitions were not provided (or incomplete), I've compiled information from a wide variety of sources. I welcome further additions, corrections, and comments: e-mail the webmaster: ![[webmaster]](http://www.quine.org/uspsglos.html/webmaster-link.gif) . Note, some of the MODS operations codes have changed significantly; the 1999 entries are undated while the updates are marked with (2003) at the end of the entry.
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USPS Abbreviations Glossary A-L (select the letter)
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L
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USPS Abbreviations Glossary A-L
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A Field 32 bar POSTNET code representing 5 digit ZIP code
A-E Architect-Engineer services
A/P Accounting Period
AAA Automated Airline Assignment
AADC Automated Area Distribution Center
AAFES Army and Air Force Exchange Service (military overseas post offices)
AAR Advanced Address Recognizer for OCR [1991 RFP for 1995]
AB Field 69 bar POSTNET code (an A field + B field) representing 9 digit ZIP code
AB' Field 79 bar POSTNET code (an A field + B' field) representing 11 digit ZIP code
ABA American Banking Association [for funds transfer]
ABC Activity Based Costing [2002]
ABC Advanced Bar Code: 62 bar POSTNET code representing 11 digit ZIP [see DPBC]
ABC Audit Bureau of Circulations Inc. (for 2nd class permit audits)
ABC Group Automation and Bar Code Group
ABE Automated Barcode Evaluator
ABMPS Automated Business Mail Processing System
AC actual count
ACA After Contract Award (2004)
ACA Associate Contractor Agreement
ACDCS Air Contract Data Collection System [USPS transportation contracts system]
ACE Advanced Computing Environment (2003 IT upgrade including Microsoft Outlook email)
ACFS Advanced Computerized Forwarding System
ACH Automated Clearinghouse (funds transfer)
ACL Address Correction Letter test [Wilmington DE, Apr '92, printed CFS address changes]
ACS Address Change Service
ACSS Air Contract Support System
ACT Air Contract Transportation tag
ACT Automation Compatible Tray [for AFSM-ai, 2005 and FSS, 2007]
ADAPT Automatic Density Analysis Profile Technique
ADC Area Distribution Center
ADEPT Acquisition for Desktop Extended Processing Equipment
ADJ Adjustment (plus or minus) [on a report]
ADNE Address Does Not Exist [Delivery Force Knowledge address update, 2005]
ADP Accountable Paper Depository
ADP Automated Data Processing
ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (up to 1.5 Mbps high speed Internet access on telephone wires)
ADVANCE Advanced Mail Tracking & Reporting System for Standard Mail & Periodicals [notification and tracking service]
AE additional entry
AEC Automated Element Correction [address correction subsystem 2003]
AECII Automated Element Correction II [address correction subsystem 2005]
AEG Allgemein Elektricitat Gesellschaft (vendor to USPS; acquired by Siemens, renamed Dematic)
AEP Affirmative Employment Program
AES Automated Enrollment System [for Management Academy courses]
AFA After First Article approval
AFC advanced facer-canceller
AFCM Automatic Fine Cull Machine
AFCS Advanced Facer Canceller System [ECA/ AEG] (faces letter mail by locating the stamp, meter, or indicia. AFCS also cancels letter mail, sprays an identification (ID) tag, lifts the image, and sorts letter mail to a set of bins for further processing)
AFCS-DD Advanced Facer Canceller System Doubles Detector (2004)
AFCS-IJC Advanced Facer Canceller System InkJet Canceller
AFCS/ISS Advanced Facer Canceller System with Input Sub System
AFF Automated Flats Feeder (for FSM)
AFF/OCR Automated Flats Feeder and Optical Character Reader modification (upgrade for AFSM 1000 completed in 2003; renamed AFSM as UFSM)
AFP Association for Financial Professionals
AFS Advanced Flats Sorter [renamed AFSM for deployment between 2000 and 2002]
AFSM Advanced Flats Sorting Machine [obsolete]
AFSM Automated Flats Sorting Machine [2002]
AFSM 100 Advanced Flats Sorting Machine [deployment between 2000 and 2002 replacing FSM881 at a ratio of 1 to 2.5]
AFSM 100 Automated Flats Sorting Machine [USPS Emergency Preparedness Report 2002]
AFSM-ai Advanced Flats Sorting Machine with automatic induction [feeder, 2005]
AFTL Automatic Flats Tub Lidder ~ 2005
AFTU Automatic Flats Tub Unlidder ~ 2005
AFV Alternative Fuel Vehicle
AHMR Apartment House Mail Receptacle
AI Address Interpretation (UK, 2006)
AI Artificial Intelligence
AI Automatic Induction (e.g. for AFSM)
AIC Account Identifier Code [charge numbers]
AIC Akaike Information Criteria (character recognition in Siemens OCR Adaptive Read system)
AIIEPPS Automated Inbound International Expedited Product Processing System~ 2005
AIM Asset and Identification Management program [pilot 1989; nationwide starts 1991]
AIM Automatic Identification Manufacturers [barcode standards group]
AIS Address Information System
AISO Address Information System Office (?) [Office of Operations Services]
ALF Automatic Letter Facing and Cancelling Machine (UK)
ALF/SEG (UK)
Alhambra Modification Separates FIM and meter mail on Micro Mark Facer/Canceler
ALP Advanced Leadership Program (since 1998, 4 week program)
ALPS Automatic Log sheet Preparation System (UK) [computes productivity for manual keying stations]
ALS Advanced Letter Sorter [future]
AM Account Management (finance)
AM Address Management
AM ante meridian (before noon in time)
AMC Airport Mail Center
AMC Airport Mail Centre (UK, Hong Kong)
AMC/F Airport Mail Center/Facility (79 in 2006 before END implemented and transition to ATC)
AMEE Association for Mail Electronic Enhancement
AMF Airmail Field [uncommon]
AMF Airport Mail Facility
AMK Automated Mailing Kiosk (Return kiosk system at airports to mail home TSA prohibited personal items, 2005)
AMO Area Maintenance Office
AMOT Alternate Methods Of Transportation
AMP Advanced Management Program (at W. F. Bolger Management Academy and others)
AMP Area Mail Processing
AMPC Area Mail Processing Center
AMPS Automated Meter Posting System
AMS Address Management System
AMS Alternate Mailing Systems
AMS2 Address Management System phase 2
AMS3 Address Management System phase 3
AMTES Area Mail Transport Equipment Specialists
ANK Attempted Not Known (return to sender)
ANP After Notice to Proceed
ANSI American National Standards Institute
ANSI-RIA American National Standards Institute - Robotics Industries Association (e.g. safety standards)
AO Administrative Official
AO Associate (Post) Office
AO Autres Objets; All Other [international mail category - see IMM]
AOG Aircraft on Ground [aircraft awaiting repair parts]
AOI associate office infrastructure
AOS Advice of Shipment (for shipments from SDOs)
AP Accounting Period
APARS Accounts Payable Accounting and Reporting System
APC All Purpose Container (rolling container to move mail trays at post office; often known as POSTCON)
APC Automated Postal Center (USPS consumer stamp printing machine kiosk with PB IBIP indicia (Dallas got first unit in 2004
APC Automated Processing Centres (UK)
API Application Program Interface (standard software interface to a computer program)
APMG Assistant Postmaster General
APMG Associate Postmaster General
APO Army (Air Force) Post Office
APPS Automated Package Parcel Sorter [(also) Lockheed-Martin 2002 award for $300 million USPS 2004-2005 deployment]
APPS Automated Package Processing System [Lockheed-Martin 2002 award for $300 million USPS 2004-2005 deployment]
APQC American Productivity and Quality Center (spearheading the creation, design and administration of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award)
APS Address Program Support Office [Office of Operations Support]
APS Adjustment Processing System
APT Advanced Postal Teller
APT Apartment (mailing address abbreviation)
APT Automated Postal Teller
APWU American Postal Workers Union
AR Account Representative
ARM Accelerated Reply Mail
ARO After Receipt of Order
ARS Address Recognition System [2002]
ARSWS Address Readability Specialist Work Stations [1992 NPF]
ARU Address Recognition Unit [Arthur D. Little planned OCR for 1997]
AS-IS Activity model (showing current process; compare with TO-BE)
ASC Accounting Service Center (i.e. MASC)
ASCII [a USPS magnetic tape standard - EBCDIC is the another]
ASD Automated Seamless Dispatch (? acronym used)
ASDRM Auto Dispatch System for Registered Mail
ASF Administrative Support Facility; Auxiliary Service Facility
ASF Auxiliary Service Facility
ASM Administrative Support Manual [USPS]
ASM Automatic Sorting Machine (UK) [NP4000 will replace]
ASME American Society of Mechanical Engineers
ASN Advanced Shipping Notice (Oct 1 2001 required)
ASP Associate Supervisor Program (since 1996, 16 week program)
ASYS Air System Services [USPS air Transportation Services Contract for domestic mail on scheduled aircraft; replaced by CAIR in 2003]
ASYS-R Air System Services - Regional [USPS air Transportation Services Contract; air transportation of domestic mail on scheduled aircraft; scheduled to end in May 2003]
ATC Airport Transfer Center (60 or 70 expected after END implemented and transition from AMC)
ATE Automatic Test Equipment
ATF Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
ATHS Automated Tray Handling System (Siemens Dematic a $127 million contract in 2003)
ATLAS Automatic Tray Label Assignment System (2004, replaces PASSPORT, supports EDL)
ATM Automatenmarken (European coin fed machines which print stamps on demand)
ATM Automatic Teller Machine (USA banks)
ATP Authority to Participate Vouchers (federal food coupons)
ATP Authority To Proceed
ATS Automatic Tray Sleever ~ 2005
ATU Automatic Tray Unsleever ~ 2005
AUTO Automation [abbreviation for reports]
Automatic Strapping Machine Wraps straps around containers or bundles and welds them
Automatic Strapping System Straps and welds containers or bundles
AVSEC AViation SECurity (marking on 2002 airmail items)
AVTRS Automated Vehicle Time Recording System [determines vehicle usage by badge reader]
-B-
B Field 37 bar POSTNET code adding zone and +4 to existing 5 digit ZIP code
B&P Bid and Proposal
B' Field 47 bar POSTNET code adding zone, +4, and street to existing 5 digit ZIP code
BA Basic rate category abbreviation on letter mail key line
BAARS Bulk Mail Acceptance and Accounting Reporting System [enhancement is BRAVIS]
BAPO Base Army Post Office (UK)
BBM Bulk Business Mail
BC Barcode
BC British Commonwealth and Foreign Parcel Office (UK, was I&FPP)
BCM Booklet/Coil Vending Machine
BCR Bar Code Reader
BCS Bar Code Sorter
BCS/OSS Bar Code Sorter/ Output SubSystem for RBCS
BCSI Business Customer Satisfaction Index [USPS plan to implement in 1992]
BDS Biohazard Detection System (since October, 2001) - preferred version
BDS Biological Detection System (since October, 2001)
BDSIS Belt Drive Sack Induction Station (for BMC Sack Sorters) replaced SIS on 12-19-91
BDT Business Development Team (Apr 2006)
BEA Bureau of Economic Analysis
BEP Bureau of Engraving and Printing
BFPO British Forces Post Office (UK)
BHC Bulk Handling Centre (UK)
BIS Bulk Insured Services
BITE Built In Test Equipment
BITS Base Information Transfer System [US military address change system]
Blk. Rt. Bulk Rate
BLS Bureau of Labor Statistics
BMA Bulk Mail Acceptance
BMAP BiDirectional Mapping [2002]
BMAU Bulk Mail Acceptance Unit
BMBF German Federal Ministry for Education and Research
BMC Bulk Mail Center (21 in 2006 before END implemented)
BMC Bulk Mail Center Container
BMC-MSC Bulk Mail Center- Management Sectional Center
BME Business Mail Entry
BMEU Business Mail Entry Unit
BO Branch Office (UK)
BOB Business Opportunities Bulletin (USPS Purchasing and Material Management Information Systems database stores data about pending procurements. This includes synopsis, solicitation, and supporting documents for download by prospective suppliers.
BOG Board of Governors [USPS Board of Directors appointed by the President of the USA]
BOI Board of Inspection [USPS group to approve production modifications after QA]
Box R Retired Military Personnel
BP Bulk Posting (UK)
BPA Basic Pricing Agreement
BPA Business Publications Audit of Circulation Inc. (for 2nd class permit audits)
BPCS British Post Consultancy Service [sets up postal operations for other countries]
BPI Breakthrough Productivity Initiatives [2002]
BPI Business Process Improvement
BPM Bound Printed Matter
BPMA British Postal Museum and Archive (UK)
BPRS Bulk Parcel Return Service
BR Branch [MODS report abbreviation]
BRAVIS Bulk Revenue And Volume Information System [enhancement of BAARS]
BRC Business Reply Card
BRE Business Reply Envelope
BRM Business Reply Mail
BRMAS Business Reply Mail Accounting System
BRPW Bulk Revenue Pieces and Weights
BSA Bank Secrecy Act
BSN Business Service Network (USPS 2004)
BTMC Bell Telephone Manufacturing Co (manufacturer)
BTS U. S. Department of Transportation Bureau of Transportation Statistics
BTU/SF/YR British Thermal Unit/Square Foot/Year [energy use]
BV Bulletin of Verification
BWS Building Wire Standardization
BWS/PDS Building Wire Standardization/ Premise Distribution Systems
-C-
C Composite Operation [MODS report abbreviation]
C Field 52 bar POSTNET code representing 9 digit ZIP code
C' Field 62 bar POSTNET code representing 11 digit ZIP code
C-M P&DC Curseen-Morris P& DC (formerly Brentwood P&PC, Washington DC, named after postal workers Joseph Curseen Jr. and Thomas Morris Jr. who were killed by anthrax in 2001)
C40 POSTEC Letter Coding Desk (UK)
C4SC Customer 4 State Code (customer applied 4 state barcode, 2006)
CAA Clean Air Act [from Environmental Protection Agency]
CAC Corrective Action Code (address list, 2006 ; works with CARL)
CAC Customer Advisory Council
CAD Computer Aided Design
CAD/CAM Computer Aided Design/ Computer Aided Manufacturing
CADA Commercially Available Decentralized Acquisition (2002 alternative to FAST and REDI procurement)
CADAM Computer Aided Design And Manufacturing [USPS required CAD format]
CADD Computer Aided Design and Drafting
CADR Computer Assisted Delivery Revision (UK optimizer for carrier routes)
CAG A-D - Cost Ascertainment Grouping [category of post office]
CAG A-G - Cost Ascertainment Grouping [category of post office]
CAG A-L - Cost Ascertainment Grouping [category of post office]
CAIR Commercial Air transportation system contract (2003, were ASYS)
CAIR-03 Commercial Air transportation system contract (2003, were ASYS)
CAKT Computer Assisted Keyboard Training
CAM Computer Aided Manufacturing
CAN-SPAM Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act (US Congress considering, 2003)
CAO Change of Appointing Office - personnel term used for transferred employee: person is reassigned and CAO (obsolete?)
CAP Corporate Automation Plan
CAPS Centralized Account Payment System (possibly incorrect translation in POSTCOM, 2008)
CAPS Centralized Automated Payment System
CAPS Centralized Automatic Payment System
CAR Consumer Affairs Representative
CARL Corrective Action Required List (address list, 2006 ; works with CAC)
CAROUSEL (White Carousel System: USPS database contains order numbers, item numbers, quantity and locations of stock to be shipped to internal customers)
CARS Change-of-Address Record Server (2004)
CAS Case Analysis System
CASS Coded Accuracy Support System [2002]
CASS Coding Accuracy Support System
CASS/CRIS Coding Accuracy Support System for Carrier Route Information System Matching
CAST Computer Assisted Scheme Training
CAT Category [MODS report abbreviation]
CAT Curbline Access Test
CBD Commerce Business Daily
CBDS Collection Box Decontamination System
CBIT Computer Based Interactive Training
CBMS Collection Box Management System (tool monitors collection performance)
CBO Congressional Budget Office
CBS Capital Budget System
CBT Computer Based Test [administered by NTAC]
CBT Computer Based Training [obsolete - see CBIT]
CBU Cluster Box Units
CCC Classification Currents Communicator (newsletter)
CCC Corporate Customer Contact
CCCS City Carrier Cost System (within CCS)
CCID Container Content ID (2006 for EPD)
CCITT [FAX image transfer protocol]
CCM Coalition of Catalog Mailers
CCS Carrier Cost System (includes CCCS and RCCS)
CD-ROM Compact Disk - Read Only Memory
CDB Corporate Data Base
CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CDO Counter District Office (UK, was HPO before 1986)
CDR Critical Design Review
CDRH Center for Devices and Radiological Health
CDS Circular Date Stamp
CDS Computerized Delivery Sequence (file)
CEO Chief Executive Officer
CET Critical Entry Time
CFC Culler Facer Canceller (UK Royal Mail) (not colour facer canceller)
CFL Civilian Labor Force (statistics)
CFO Chief Financial Officer
CFPA Coaching For Performance and Accountability
CFPS Change of Address Forms Processing System (scanner in PARS, 2007)
CFR Code of Federal Regulations
CFS I Computerized Forwarding System I
CFS II Computerized Forwarding System II
CFS II/PLA Computerized Forwarding System II/ Printer Label Applicator
CFS/CMU Computerized Forwarding System/ Centralized Markup Unit
CFS/FFT Computerized Forwarding System/ Flats Forwarding Terminal
CH2O Paraformaldehyde
CICA Competition in Contracting Act
CIIS Comprehensive-Interactive Information Strategy
CIH Certified Industrial Hygienist
CIM Contract Interpretation Manual (USPS-NPMHU)
CIN Content Identifier Number (on bar coded tray labels)
CIPS Customer Initiated Payment System (PLANET code based future system)
CIS Corporate Information System
CIS Criminal Investigation System (2003 USPS)
CLASS Computerized Labeling and Address Sequence System
CLEC Continuing Local Exchange Carrier (telephone company)
CLF Civilian Labor Force
CLIN Contract Line Item Number [pricing]
CLK Clerk [MODS report abbreviation]
ClO2 Chlorine dioxide
CLPC Computerized Label Printing Center
CLSM Compact Letter Sorting Machine (BTMC machine used in Netherlands)
CM see C-M P&
CMA commercial mailing agent
CMC Category Management Center (2004, e.g. USPS Automation CMC, Merrifield, Virginia)
CMIS Commitment Management Information System (upcoming track & trace for customers in 1999)
CMM Customized MarketMail (2004 custom shaped - non-rectangular - marketing mail dropped directly at DDU)
CMO Chief Marketing Officer (postmaster responsibility to community)
CMP Career Management Program (since 1999)
CMP Crisis Management Plan (2004)
CMPA Canadian Magazine Publishers Association
CMRA Commercial Mail Receiving Agency (private mail box)
CMRA Commercial Mail Receiving Agent (private mail box)
CMRS Computerized (Remote Postage) Meter Resetting System
CMS Complement Management and Selection [bidding system in HRIS]
CMS Complement Management System [~ 1983, job bidding system in HRIS]
CMU Centralized Markup Unit (CFS).
CNG Compressed Natural Gas [for motor vehicles]
CO Contracting Officer
COA Change Of Address
COARS Change-of-Address Reporting System (in PARS) Postal Rate Commission Testimony 2005
COARS Change-of-Address Research System (in PARS) Postal Rate Commission Testimony 2005
COB Close Of Business
COD Collect On Delivery
CODES Computerized On-site Data Entry System
COLA Cost Of Living Adjustments
COLA Cost Of Living Allowances
COMPASS Computerized Procurement and Supply System
CON Console [MODS report abbreviation]
CON-CON Concealed Container [2002]
CON-CON Concentration and Convoy of Registered Mail
CONFIRM Computerized On-line Notification For Inbound Reply Mail (PLANET code based 1999 system)
CONV Conversion Rate [MODS report abbreviation]
COO Chief Operating Officer
COOP Continuity Of Operations Plans (US Postal Inspection Service)
COP Continuation Of Pay [disability]
COR Carrier Optimal Routing (2003 USPS carrier route travel optimization computer program)
COR Contracting Officer Representative
COR Contracting Officer's Representative
COSC Computer Operations Service Center
COTS Commercial-Off-The-Shelf
CP Carrier Route Presort rate category abbreviation on letter mail key line
CP Colis Postaux [international mail category - see IMM]
CPHQ Command Postal HeadQuarters (Allied Expeditionary Air Force, 1944)
CPI Consumer Price Index [cost of living]
CPNS Customer Preferred Name System
CPO Community Post Office
CPP Centralized Postage Payment system
CPS Contractor Performance System (USPS Purchasing and Material Management Information Systems WEB based application that allows purchasing personnel within the federal government to have access. It allows purchasing personnel to evaluate suppliers contract performance and is shared among the subscribed agencies.)
CPU Contract Postal Unit (post office inside retail establishment)
CR Carrier Route
CR Character Reader [OCR] subsystem
CRA Cost Revenue Analysis (~ 2005)
CRAMP Computerised Routing for Automated Mail Processing (UK 1992 sort plan generator)
CRF Central Repair Facility
CRIS Carrier Route Information System
CRM Character Recognition Module
CRM Courtesy Reply Mail
CRM Customer Relationship Management
CRS Catalog Request Service (~ 2005)
CRSS Civil Service Retirement System
CRT Cathode Ray Tube
CS&DS Customer Service and Sales Districts
CSA Candidate Supplemental Application (in USPS employee application process)
CSA Carbazole Sulphonic Acid (blue phosphor ÒLettalite B2Ó used on UK stamps & barcodes)
CSAC Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee (selects stamp designs)
CSB Customer Service Branch [at each postal data center]
CSBCS Carrier Sequence Bar Code Sorter
CSC Consumer Service Card
CSD Customer Service District
CSDD Customer Service District Designee
CSF Consumer Service Facility (195 in 2006 before END implemented)
CSI Customer Satisfaction Index [Opinion Research Corporation]
CSM Customer Satisfaction Measurement (survey)
CSM-B Customer Satisfaction Measurement - business (survey)
CSM-EVM Customer Satisfaction Measurement - event based (survey)
CSM-R Customer Satisfaction Measurement - residential (survey)
CSMDS Customer Services Management Data System
CSOCR Code Sort Optical Character Reader
CSP Corporate Succession Planning
CSR Customer Support Ruling (2007)
CSRDF Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund
CSRS Civil Service Retirement System
CST Code Sort Translator (UK converts keystrokes to dot codes and dotcodes to addresses)
CT Computed Tomography
CTC Celebrate The Century (1999 stamp series)
CTHO Christmas Terminal Handling Operation (e.g. temporary warehouse setup to handle USPS parcels for the holidays, Atlanta, 2006)
CTO Chief Technology Officer
CTS Culler - Tiler - Singler (UK)
CTT Comprehensive Tracing and Tracking [for Express Mail]
CTUS Customs Territory of the United States
cv coefficient of variance
CWA Clean Water Act [from Environmental Protection Agency]
CWU Communication Workers Union (UK)
-D-
D/S Drop Ship
DAASC Defense Automatic Address System Center (Inquiry System)
DACA Days After Contract
DADC Destination Area Distribution Center (for periodicals)
DAISY Data Acquisition Information System (UK)
DAL Detached Address Label
DAR Decision Analysis Report
DAS Density Analysis System
dB decibels (measure of sound level)
DBA Doing Business As (Fictitious business name for sole proprietor)
dBA a-weighted decibels (measure of sound level weighted to approximate the frequency response of the human ear)
dBC c-weighted decibels (measure of sound level using an absolute scale)
DBCS Delivery Bar Code Sorter
DBCS-EC Delivery Bar Code Sorter Expanded Capability (2002-2003 can handle flimsy and heavy letter mail)
DBCS-ED Delivery Bar Code Sorter Expanded Capability (2002-2003 can handle flimsy and heavy letter mail) - possible typo for DBCS-EC
DBCS/OSS Delivery Bar Code Sorter/ Output SubSystem
DBD Detailed Block Diagram
DBMC Destination Bulk Mail Center
DCD Document Control Division [headquarters]
DCN Design Change Notification
DCS Data Collection Site [MODS report abbreviation]
DCS Direct Connect System [transports letters from the AFCS directly to a DBCS/OSS - planned for year 2004]
DCT Data Collection Technician
DD Doubles Detector (on AFCS-DD, 2004)
DDC Delivery Distribution Center
DDE Dynamic Data Exchange [for CBIT]
DDE/DR Distributed Data Entry and Distributed Reporting
DDU Destinating Delivery Unit
DDU Destination Delivery Unit
DEC Deceased (?) (return to sender)
DEC Digital Equipment Corporation
DEC Division Environmental Coordinator [USPS]
DelCon Delivery Confirmation (USPS trace and track service)
DEPS Drop Entry Point System [introduced through FAST on June 4, 2006]
DESK (UK)
DFC Directions For Conducting [examinations by NTAC]
DGS Document Generator System [for contracting officers/ USPS Procurement & Supply]
DHHS Department of Health and Human Services
DHL courier service founded in 1969 by Adrian Dalsey, Larry Hillblom and Robert Lynn (D, H, and L) as a service shuttling bills of lading between San Francisco and Honolulu. Deutsche Post World Net acquired DHL in 2002. Through the purchase of Airborne Express in 2003, DHL became the third largest express service provider in the U.S.
DHS Department of Homeland Security
DIME Dual Independent Map Encoding [census & ZIP+4 directory]
DIOSS Delivery Bar Code Sorter Input / Output SubSystem (the ultimate DBCS upgrade available in 2001 including DBCS/OCR/ISS/OSS)
DIOSS Delivery Bar Code Sorter Input Subsystem / Output SubSystem (the ultimate DBCS upgrade available in 2001 including DBCS/OCR/ISS/OSS)
DIOSS-EC Delivery Bar Code Sorter Input Subsystem / Output SubSystem Expanded Capability (future DBCS upgrade including DBCS/OCR/ISS/OSS with ability to handle heavier mail)
DIS [abbreviation on Area Distribution Center (ADC) mail]
DIS (unknown return to sender code)
DITA Datapost Inland Tracking and Tracing (UK)
DIVA Distributeur de Vignettes dÓAffranchisement (French self service stamp dispenser)
DJDE [Xerox print format]
DKS Distribution Key Share
DL/PB Dead Letter/ Parcel Branch [USPS]
DLA Defense Logistics Agency
DLL Dynamic Link Library [for CBIT]
DLMA Phosphor manufactured by Derby Luminescents of Enfield (mixture of CSA and para amino benzophenone makes a blue-green flash followed by blue phosphorescence)
DM Direct Mail
DM District Manager
DMCS Domestic Mail Classification Schedule [defines mail requirements and rates]
DMD [support facility in Washington DC]
DMM Domestic Mail Manual (USPS)
DMU Detached Mail Unit
DN Distribution Networks
DNA Deoxyribonucleic acid
DNO Distribution Networks Office
DNO Distribution Networks Operations
DO Delivery Office (UK)
DOB Date of Birth
DOIS Delivery Operations Information System (August 2000 Board meeting)
DOJ Department of Justice
DOL Department of Labor
DOT Department of Transportation
DOV Dispatch of Value (SCF to DDU delivery with DPS mail)
DPARS Delivery Performance Achievement and Recognition System (2004 productivity tool based upon top quartile performers)
DPB Delivery Point Bar Code (62 bar POSTNET representing 11 digit ZIP) - mail industry
DPBC Delivery Point Bar Code (62 bar POSTNET representing 11 digit ZIP) - was ABC
DPC Destination Processing Center [new naming convention for inbound mail processing center, 2005; as of 2006, after END is implemented expect 258 LPC / DPC total]
DPF Delivery Point File
DPMG Deputy Postmaster General
DPO Designated Post Office
DPP Day of Pay Period (1-14) [MODS report abbreviation]
DPP Delivery Point Packaging [2002 RFP to sequence flats and first class mail into one package for each delivery point]
DPRC Dual Pass Rough Cull System "Barney"
DPRCS Dual Pass Rough Cull System "Barney"
DPS Delivery Point Sequence
DPS Delivery Point Sequencing
DPV Delivery Point Validation (a new feature in 2002 for address hygiene)
DPV Delivery Point Verification (a new feature in 2002 for address hygiene)
DQI Distribution Quality Improvement program (2004 uses commercial databases to improve remote computer reader encode rates)
DRDC Destination Regional Distribution Center (2006)
DRS Directory Retrieval System
DRS (EEO) Dispute Resolution Specialist
DSAS Drop Shipment Appointment System (replaced by FAST in 2005)
DSAT Diagnostic Service Analysis Testing
DSCF Destination Sectional Center Facility
DSF Delivery Sequence File [from NAIC]
DSI DSI: Driver Safety Instructor
DSIS Decision Support Information System
DSL Digital Subscriber Line (high speed Internet access on telephone wires such as ADSL, HDSL, SDSL, VDSL)
DSMART Delivery Sortation Management Automation Research Tool (USPS software 2007)
DSMS Drop Ship Management System [2002]
DSU Decision Storage Unit [for RBCS]
DSU Directory Search Unit [for AAR, future]
DUBCS Delivery Unit Bar Code Sorter [obsolete term, see DBCS]
DUSPK Delivery Unit Spare Parts Kit
DVD Dominick V. Daniels Facility [Newark's GMF & SDC, formerly NJF]
DVED Direct View Encoding Desk
DVRS Diversity Reporting System
DVT Documentation Verification Team [USPS]
DYNAMO Dynamic Network Mails Operation [UK, records collection times at mail boxes]
-E-
E&TS Engineering & Technology Support department (USPS HQ)
E&TSD Engineering & Technology Support Department (USPS HQ)
E-COM Electronic Computer Originated Mail [obsolete USPS Registered Trademark]
e-VS Electronic Verification System (2003, for postage payment of FedEx SmartPost parcels delivered by USPS - 2005)
E40 POSTEC Automatic Letter Sorting Machine (4 rows like DBCS) (UK)
EA/PS [? prototype version of RBCS]
EAA Enhanced Airline Assignment (2006)
EAD Earliest Available Date (2004)
eaGLe Excellence in Accounting through the General Ledger program (2003, to replace 20 year old GL)
EAP Emergency Action Plan (2004)
EAP Employee Assistance Program
EAP/WEI Employee Assistance Program / Workplace Environment Improvement (offices merged 2003)
EAPBX Electronic Automatic Private Branch Exchange [data transmission]
EAPWEI see EAP/WEI
EAS Executive and Administrative Schedule [upper labor grade levels]
EASC Eastern Area Supply Center
EBCDIC [a USPS magnetic tape standard based on IBM - ASCII is the another]
EBR Employee Badge Reader [for time keeping through PC-CTAPS, RPMS, or DSIS]
eBuy USPS e-purchasing system (2003)
ECA ElectroCom Automation [vendor to USPS, division of AEG]
ECB Engineering Change Board
ECCO Electronic Cash Registers at Counters (UK)
ECDBCS (see DBCS-EC)
ECI Employment Cost Index
ECR Electronic Cash Register (UK machine)
ECR Enhanced Carrier Route (~ 2005)
ECR Environmental Compliance Review
ECS Electronic Commerce Services (secure data transmission)
ECS Electronic Courier Services (secure data transmission) March 2000
EDC Engineering and Development Center (Merrifield, Virginia)
EDED Employee Development and Education Division [of TDD]
Edger-Feeder model 500 Edger-Feeder
Edger-Feeder model 501A Model 500 with low level mail alert, stripper, shingler
EDI Electronic Data Interchange (USPS pub. 109)
EDIT Engineering Data Isolation Technique
EDL Enhanced Distribution Label (2004 for sack tracking)
EDMS Equipment Data Management System [USPS Procurement & Supply]
EDP Executive Development Program
EDS Electronic Data Systems (vendor to USPS)
EDW Enterprise Data Warehouse (2003 for Confirm tracking)
EEO Equal Employment Opportunity
EEOC Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
EFT Electronic Funds Transfer
EI/QWL Employee Involvement/ Quality of Work Life [USPS Glossary]
EI/QWL Employee Involvement/ Quality of Working Life
EIC Earned Income Credit
eIDEAS Employee Ideas (Time and Attendence Collection System))
EIRS Equipment Inventory Reporting System
EIS Executive Information System
eLEARNING (distance learning platform)
ELM Employee and Labor Relations Manual
ELSIE Electronic Letter Sorting and Indicating Equipment (UK original SPLSM)
EM Express Mail
EMA Emergency Management Activity
EMA Envelope Manufacturers Association [industry trade association]
EMA Equipment Maintenance Allowance [i.e. mileage for private car]
EMCA Express Mail Corporate Account
EMCM Executive Mail Center Management certification course (first USPS professional certification course)
eMIR electronic Mail Improvememt Reporting system [reports problem packages to mailers, 2004]
EMIS Express Mail International Service
EMM Express Mail Manifesting
EMMS Express Mail Military Service
EMRDF Electronic Mail Run Data File [information about mail piece for inserters - e.g. Pitney Bowes]
EMRS Electronic Marketing Reporting System (Express Mail Usage Tracking)
EMS Environmental Management Systems
EMS Express Mail (International) Service
ENCOMPASS (partial) Computerized Procurement and Supply System(USPS Purchasing and Material Management Information Systems database provides national reporting against COMPASS data, with the exception of solicitations)
END Evolutionary Network Development
EOM End Of Message [MODS report abbreviation]
EOS Employee Opinion Survey
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
EPCD Entry Point Clearance Document (container based: also known as e8125)
EPD Entry Point Discount (2006 with CCID)
EPM Electronic Post Mark
EPO Entry Post Office
EPP Emergency Preparedness Plan
EPPML Extensible Postal Product Model and Language (XML schema for standardized definition of postal products by Pitney Bowes, 2007)
ePUBWATCH Electronic Publication Watch system (2003, complaint tracking and resolution system for periodical mail)
ERM Employee Resource Management
ERM Enterprise Risk Management (2005)
ERMC Eastern Region Mail Container
eRMS enterprise Resource Management System (automated tracking of sick leave)
ERP Enterprise Resource Planning
ERP Expanded Return Program (bulk return of dead letter mail to companies)
ERRP Ergonomic Risk Reduction Process (2002)
ESDS Electro-Static Discharge Sensitive
ESP Electronic Sort Processor
ESP Entry Schedule for Periodicals (tracks periodicals on-time service)
ESP Ergonomic Strategic Partnership (April 4, 2003)
EtO Ethylene oxide
ETC Electronic Time Clock system [1989 update for manual time card offices]
ETOE Extraterrestrial Office of Exchange (in Comprehensive Report to Congress)
ETOE Extraterritorial Office of Exchange
ETU Engineering Technical Unit
eUARS Electronic Unencoded Address Resolution Service (2007 ? changed words)
eUARS Electronic Unencoded Address Resolution System (2003)
EV Electric Vehicle
EVA Economic Value Added (financial performance figure, affects pay-for-performance calculations)
EVPN Enhanced Virtual Private Network (AT&T phone system for USPS, 2007)
EVS see: e-VS
EWS Early Warning System (USPS 2004 patent alerts mailers to newly created streets and addresses within CASS)
EXFC External First-Class Measurement System [Price Waterhouse first class mail on-time delivery reporting system]
Express Mail USPS overnight mail [USPS Registered Trademark]
EXSEL Excess Serviceable Equipment Listing [USPS Procurement & Supply]
EZF Expert ZIP+4 Finder (ZIP Code/ZIP+4+2 address lookup system enables users to search for addresses and obtain matches from the USPS national address database; address matching logic accommodates misspellings, abbreviations, aliases, inaccurate address components - including wrong ZIP Codes - and peculiar local conventions)
EZF Expanded ZIP Retrofit [allows 4 keystrokes for ZIP+4 sorts on MPLSM)
-F-
F&CPP Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post (UK, later I&FPP, now BC&FP)
FAA Federal Aviation Authority
FAB Feature And Benefit
FAR Federal Acquisition Regulation
FAST Facility Access and Shipment Tracking system (manages drop ship appointments, 2005)
FAST Facility Access Shipment and Tracking system (another translation of above)
FAST Forecasted Annually Shipped Timely (centralized procurement system)
FAT First Article Test
FAT Foot Access Test
FBO Federal Business Opportunities (replaces CBD in 2004)
FCC Federal Communications Commission
FCM First Class Mail
FCPC First Class Phone Card
FCT Facer Canceler Table (UK) [replaces ALF/SEG]
FD 5 Digit rate category abbreviation on letter mail key line
FDC First Day Cover
FECA Federal Employees' Compensation Act
FEDR Feeder Enhanced Destacking Retrofit (Comprehensive Report to Congress)
FEDR Feeder Enhancement Destacking Retrofit (2003-2004 for AFSM 100)
FEDSTRIP Federal Standard Requisitioning and Issue Procedures
FEGLI Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance [death benefits]
FEHB Federal Employee Health Benefits
FEHBP Federal Employee Health Benefits Program
FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency
FERS Federal Employee Retirement System
FET Field Effect Transistor (type of integrated circuit)
FFAD Flats Feeder Assist Device (2004)
FFB Federal Financing Bank
FFM Flats Forwarding Module (CFS-Flats)
FFP Firm Fixed Price
FFT Flats Forwarding Terminal (in Computerized Forwarding System)
FFV Flexible Fuel Vehicle
FHP First Handling Pieces
FHP/HR First Handling Pieces per clerk/ mail handler work hour [MODS report abbreviation]
FHWA Federal Highway Administration [regulates mailbox support sizes for auto safety]
FICA Federal Insurance Contributions Act [social security]
FICS Flats ID Cost Sort (Comprehensive Report to Congress)
FICS Flats Identification Coding System (2004, ID tag for flats without POSTNET on AFSM 100)
FICS Flats Identification Code Sort system (2005, ID tag for flats without POSTNET on AFSM 100)
FIM Facing Identification Mark
FIPS Federal Information Processing Standard county codes
FIRES Flat Interim Remote Encoding System (2003)
First Class Mail [USPS Registered Trademark]
FL Floor (mailing address abbreviation)
Flats Canceler model 15 (year 1987)
FLSA Fair Labor Standards Act
FLTS Flats
FMBCR Flat Mail Bar Code Reader [Flats WABCR]
FMLA Family and Medical Leave Act
FMM Financial Management Manual
FMO Field Maintenance Office(s)
FMOCR Flat Mail Optical Character Reader
FMPCS Fixed Mechanization Process Control System [Scio Systems' hardware/ software system that controls USPS sack, parcel, and large parcel sorting machines; timeshare conveyor systems; container routing (towline) systems; and specialized induction systems in USPS Chicago & Springfield 1992]
FN First-class Nonpresort rate category abbreviation on letter mail key line
FOB Free On Board [freight/shipping delivered at no charge to]
FOE Forwarding Order Expired (return to sender)
FOIA Freedom Of Information Act
FON Functional Operation Number (merged with LDCs for MODS and NWRS reporting)
Form 3541-N 2nd class special & classroom rate (mailing statement)
Form 3541-R 2nd class special regular & agriculture rate (mailing statement)
Form 3553 CASS/MASS certification statement
Form 3600-N 1st class nonprofit (mailing statement)
Form 3600-PC 1st class stamped / metered (mailing statement)
Form 3600-R 1st class permit (mailing statement)
Form 3602-N 3rd class nonprofit permit (mailing statement)
Form 3602-PC 3rd class stamped/ metered (mailing statement)
Form 3602-PVN 3rd class plant verified nonprofit permit (mailing statement)
Form 3602-PVPC 3rd class plant verified stamped or metered (mailing statement)
Form 3602-PVR 3rd class plant verified permit (mailing statement)
Form 3602-R 3rd class permit (mailing statement)
Form 3605-PC Priority mail meter (mailing statement)
Form 3605-R Priority mail permit (mailing statement)
Form 3608-PC 4th class meter (mailing statement)
Form 3608-R 4th class permit (mailing statement)
Form 3615 Mailing Permit Application and Customer Profile (12/2002) [current precancel use permit]
Form 3620 Permit To Use Precanceled Stamps or Envelopes (12/1979) [precancel use permit before PS Form 3615 ?]
FP Presorted First-class rate category abbreviation on letter mail key line
FPA Foreign Postal Administration
FPI Functional Process Improvement
FPO Field Post Office [UK]
FPO Fleet Post Office [Navy & Marines]
FPR Funded Procurement Request
FR [see Telescoping Conveyer model FR]
FR Federal Register
FRA Field Replaceable Assembly
FRCS Federal Reserve Communications System [for funds transfer]
FREBO Field Real Estate and Buildings Office (obsolete)
FREQ Frequency Code [MODS report abbreviation]
FRES Flat Remote Encoding System (2004)
FRIP Flats Recognition Improvement Program (2004 - 2005)
FRU Field Replaceable Unit [in equipment]
FSA Flexible Spending Account
FSC Facilities Service Center
FSM Flat Sorting Machine [also see MPFSM]
FSM 881 Flat Sorting Machine model 881
FSM 1000 Flat Sorting Machine model 1000 (handles flats which cannot be processed on FSM 881)
FSO Facilities Service Offices
FSS Flat Sequencing System [Comprehensive Report to Congress]
FSS Flats Sequencing System [2002 RFP to sequence flats]
FT [see Telescoping Conveyer model FT]
FT Flats Terminal (CFS-Flats)
FTC Federal Trade Commission
FTF Friend to Friend - PLANET code program allows mailing coupons to friends for free
FTP File Transfer Protocol (USPS pub. 109)
FTS Federal Telecommunications System (see PEN)
FY Fiscal Year
-G-
GAAP Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
GAO General Accounting Office (until July 2004)
GAO Government Accountability Office (after July 2004)
GAO Government Accounting Office (incorrect, correct title is Government Accountability Office)
GAPA Guichet d'Affranchisement Postale Automatique (French integrated retail terminal)
GAPP Global Air Parcel Post
GBF/DIME Geographic Base File/ Dual Independent Map Encoding [census & ZIP+4]
GBS Global Business System (made up of 3 smaller systems: GBS-D, GBS-D, IRS) [2007]
GBS-D Global Business System Dispatch (part of GBS) [2007]
GBS-R Global Business System Receipt (part of GBS) [2007]
GCA Graphic Communications Council (developers of MAIL.DAT mailpiece information exchange format)
GCW Gross Combined Weight
GEM Global Express Mail (USPS to 190 countries, 2006)
GFY Government Fiscal Year (365 days)
GIS Geographical Information System
GIST Greeting, Inquiring, Suggesting, Thanking service initiative [1991]
GL General Ledger
GLS Global Logistics Systems (subsidiary of UK Royal Mail)
GM General Manager
GMF General Mail Facility
GMFSPK General Mail Facility Spare Parts Kit
GMHS General Mail Handling Systems
GMS General Mail System
GPC General Purpose Container
GPL Global Package Link
GPM Global Priority Mail for parcels up to 4 pounds (USPS to 190 countries, 2006)
GPMC General Purpose Mail Container
GPO General Post Office
GPO Government Printing Office
GPRA Government Performance and Results Act
GPS Global Positioning Satellite
GSA General Services Administration
GSM Gibbons Stamp Monthly (UK)
GTS Diners Club Government Travel System
GUI Graphical User Interface [e.g. Macintosh and Windows]
GXG Global Express Guaranteed (USPS partnership with FedEx to 190 countries, 2006)
-H-
H [see Portable conveyer model H]
H.R. 22 House Resolution 22 [PAEA - Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act signed December 20, 2006 as P.L. 109-435 merging the House Bill (H.R. 22) and the Senate bill (S. 662)]
Hamper Dumper Transfers loose collection mail in hampers to any hopper type conveyer
HASP Hub And Spoke Program (14 facilities in 2006 before END implemented)
HASP Hub And Spoke Project terminal [truck to truck transfer program]
HAZMAT Hazardous Material
HB Hotchkiss-Brandt (manufacturer)
HCR Highway Contract Route
HCR-TCP Highway Contract Route Transportation Pay Cycle
HDQ Headquarters [USPS]
HDSL High-bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line (1.5 Mbps high speed Internet access on telephone wires)
HEPA High-Efficiency Particulate Air (air filtration category)
HJR House Joint Resolution (Congress)
HM1 [French Sorting Machine modular construction 32 - 256 boxes]
HMS [French Sorting Machine modular construction simplified 32 - 160 boxes]
HNAM Hidden Markov Model (character recognition in Siemens OCR Adaptive Read system)
HPO Head Post Office (UK - is CDO, LDO or PDO since 1986)
HPO Highway Post Office
HQ Headquarters [USPS]
HQO Headquarters Originator [used to designate source of documentation]
HR Human Resources
HR 22 House Resolution 22 [PAEA - Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act signed December 20, 2006 as P.L. 109-435 merging the House Bill (H.R. 22) and the Senate bill (S. 662)]
HRIS Human Resources Information System
HSCB High Security Collection Box (~ 2003)
HSCBU High Security Cluster Box Unit (Comprehensive Report to Congress)
HSIU High Speed Induction Unit (at BMU with barcode readers, 2007)
HSSM High Speed Sorting Machine (UK)
HVAC Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning
HWAI Hand Written Address Interpretation, it runs with the RCR
-I-
I&FPP Imperial and Foreign Parcel Post (UK, was F&CPP, then I&FPP, now BC&FP)
I&I Occupational Safety and Health Administration Injuries and Illnesses report
IA Insufficient address (return to sender)
IAFCS Integrated Advanced Facer Canceler System
IAPO International Association of Privacy Officers
IAS International Accounting System
IAW In Accord With [statement of work]
IBA Ion Beam Applications company (irradiates mail for USPS)
IBD Intermediate Block Diagram
IBI Information Based Indicia barcode (since 1998)
IBIP Information Based Indicia Program
IBI-RP Information Based Indicia Revenue Protection
IBM International Business Machines (vendor to USPS)
IBRS International Business Reply Service
IBSS Information Business Systems Solutions
IBU International Business Unit
ICC Interstate Commerce Commission
ICG Internal Control Group (2003)
ICOA Internet Change Of Address (USPS / Imagitas strategic alliance program started Nov. 2001)
ICS ID code sortation (allows BCS to sort using flourescent ID tages as well as POSTNET barcode)
ICS ID Tag Code Sort
ICS Identification Code Sort
ICU Image Control Unit (IPU/IPSS) for RBCS [enhances connection from ISS to IPU]
ID Identification
IDCS/CT Identification Code Sort / Code Track (1998 award to Siemens to use ID tag barcode and POSTNET barcode for tracking and sorting)
IDE Internet Engineering Design
IDIQ Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract (open purchase order)
IDLH Immediately Dangerous to Life or Health [see RPP and 29 CFR 1910.134]
IDR Integrated Dispatch and Receipt (2005)
IDS ID Code Sortation
IDS Integrated Data System (collects mail processing data in a facility; upgraded in 2002)
IE Industrial Engineering
IED Improvised Explosive Device
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers [professional & standards group]
IEMP Integrated Emergency Management Plan (2004)
IEO International Exchange Office
IEPP Integrated Emergency Preparedness Plan (2004)
IFB Invitation For Bid
IG Inspector General (USPS)
II [see CFS II]
II [see Mark II Facer-Canceler]
II [see OSHA I&I]
IJC Ink Jet Canceller (on AFCS-IJC, 2004)
IJP Ink Jet Printer
IJP Ink Jet Printing
ILL Illegible (?) (return to sender)
ILS In Line Scale (~ 2005)
ILSS Integrated Logistics Support System
ILV Integrated Video/ OCR System (AEG 1992)
ILV Integrierte Automatische Lese-und Videocoderanlage (Germany 1989, RBCS)
IMAG International Mailers Action Group (2006)
IMAQ Intelligent Mail and Address Quality group in USPS (new, Feb 2003)
IMB Intelligent Mail Barcode (4 state barcode USA 2007)
IMB International Mail Branches (USPS)
IMC Image Capture Unit
IMC International Mail Centre (Hong Kong, 2006)
IMD Intelligent Mail Device (30,000 scanners installed by 2007)
IMDAS Intelligent Mail Data Acquisition System
IME In-Mail-Equivalency (the amount a marketer can spend per direct mail piece to equal a stated on-line advertising click cost) 2007
IMF Incoming Mail Facility
IMHS Integrated Mail Handling System (e.g. IMHS dumper is the mail container dumper at BMC)
IMM International Mail Manual [USPS]
IMP Integrated Mail Processor (UK Royal Mail & New Zealand: single unit CFC to sorter, 1996)
IMPAC International Merchant Purchase Authorization Card
IMPC Independent Mail Processing Center [i.e. North Metro Ga.]
IMPex IMP reduced version (UK)
IMPEX IMP reduced version (UK)
INET ? Internet Wang address / network (Wang product)
INTELPOST International Electronic Post [USPS Registered FAX Trademark]
INV Inventory [MODS report abbreviation]
IOB Inventory Operation Branch (of NICC)
IOCS In-Office Cost System
IOS Interoperability Specifications (data transmission among automation equipment sets (2004)
IOSS Input/ Output Subsystem for Remote Bar Code System (RBCS) including ISS, ICU, IPU, DSU, SCC, OSS
IPA International Pilot's Association
IPA International Priority Airmail service
IPA/ISAL International Priority Airmail /International Surface Air Lift service
IPC International Postal Corporation (a cooperative association of 23 national postal operators in Europe, North America, Asia Pacific and accounting for 80% of the world's mail in 2007
IPCS International Package Consignment Service
IPP In-Person Proofing at Post Offices Program (2004, identity confirmation for digital certificate)
IPP Irregular Parcels and Pieces
IPR In-Process Review (review requirements with USPS to avoid rejections of deliverables)
IPS In Plant Support (analyst)
IPS Inward Primary Sorting (UK)
IPSIM Interactive Postal Simulator [obsolete]
IPSS Image Processing SubSystem for RBCS including ICU, SCC, DSU IPU & Audit
IPU Image Processing Unit for RBCS
IRBC Information Rich Barcode [proposed 3 state barcode]
IRM Integrated Resource Management
IRMD Information Resource Management Department (of ITSC)
IRS Internal Revenue Service (USA federal tax department)
IRS International Reconciliation System (part of Global Business System) [2007]
IRT Integrated Retail Terminal (replaced by POS ONE, 2004)
IRT/BCA Integrated Retail Terminal/ Bank Card Acceptance
ISAL International Surface Air Lift
ISBN International Standard Book Number
ISC Information Service Center
ISC International Service Centers (5 as of 2006 before END implemented)
ISIC International Standard Industrial Classification (United Nations Statistical Office's version of USA's SIC and NAICS codes)
ISS Input SubSystem
ISS International Symbology Specification (USPS pub. 109) for barcode
ISS AFCS Input SubSystem for Advanced Facer Canceler System [future procurement]
ISS MLOCR Input SubSystem for MLOCR [future procurement]
ISS RBCS Input SubSystem for RBCS [future procurement]
ISSC Information Systems Service Center
ISSN International Standard Serial Number
ISSP Incoming Secondary Sort Program
IT Information Technology
ITK Infrastructure Tool Kit
ITSC IRMD Telecommunications Support Center (field units of NISSC)
ITSC Chicago regional IRMD Telecommunications Support Center
ITSC Memphis regional IRMD Telecommunications Support Center
ITSC Philadelphia regional IRMD Telecommunications Support Center
ITSC San Bruno regional IRMD Telecommunications Support Center
ITSC Windsor regional IRMD Telecommunications Support Center
IVR Interactive Voice Response
IVS Inward Vouching Office (UK)
-J-
JCAM Joint Contract Administration Manual (5th edition in 2004 for USPS-NALC)
JIFFI Job Instruction File Format for Industry (created by GCA, 1999)
JIT Just In Time
JSA Job Safety Analysis (report)
-K-
KBS Knowledge Based System [in TOPS]
KBS/OLR Knowledge Based System/ On Line Reference [in TOPS]
KSA Knowledge, Skill, or Ability [USPS career guide]
-L-
L [see Portable conveyer model L]
L&DC Logistics and Distribution Center (priority mail processing center ; possibly also used as temperory facility when another facility is being renovated; 11 in 2006 before END implemented with 258 LPC / DPC expected afterwards)
L-mail Letter Mail (hybrid mail from l-mail.com, 2004)
L-O-T Line Of Travel (delivery sequence)
LA Lock Andrus (lock or key)
LACS Locatable Address Conversion System (converts from RR to "911 addressing" street name addresses, 2004)
LACSLINK Locatable Address Conversion LINK for address correction (USPS, 2004)
LAM Lock Assembly Machine(robotic machine that operates on software integrated circuits that sends and receives data from the computer to a signal controller interface (to make Arrow locks))
LAMM Late arrival managed mail (per JKB)
LAMPS Labor And Management Partners
LAN Local Area Network
LC Lettres et Cartes (international letters and cards)
LCD Liquid Crystal Display
LCD Local Consignment Deport (UK)
LCTS Low Cost Tray Sorter (2002)
LD Lethal Dose
LDC Labor Distribution Code (of National Work hour Reporting System)
LDO Letter District Office (UK, was HPO before 1986)
LDU Level Distribution Unit for Delivery Bar Code Sorter (DBCS - Martin Marietta)
LF Lead Facilitator
LID Luminescent Indicia Detector
LIS Letter Information Sample (UK mail sample in LIS)
LIS Letter Information System (UK system until 1989 for mail quality sampling)
LLV Long Life Vehicle (Grumman)
LMI Logistics Management Institute
LMLM Letter Mail Labeling Machine (white label applicator to cover incorrect barcodes)
LMRI Letter Mail Readability Index
LMS Learning Management System (2003, web based learning)
LOT Line-of-Travel
LPC Label Print Center (in Topeka, makes bar coded tray labels)
LPC Label Printing Center (in Topeka, makes bar coded tray labels)
LPC Local Processing Center [outbound, new naming convention, 2005]
LPD Local Parcel Depot (UK)
LPS Local Property and Supply System (USPS Purchasing and Material Management Information Systems database contains local site inventory, property, and purchasing records.)
LREP Letter Recognition Enhancement Program
LSA Libre Service d'Affranchisement (French self service weighing & labeling machine)
LSM Letter Sorting Machine [mechanized operator keying station system - also MPLSM]
LSSK Local Site Spares Kit
LTATS Loan, Transfer, and Training System [now includes FON codes]
LTL less-than-truckload (e.g. FedEx National LTL, a new long-haul less-than-truckload service (2007)
LULAC League of United Latin American Citizens
LUR Labor Utilization Report
United States Postal Service Abbreviations Glossary A - L (here)
United States Postal Service Abbreviations Glossary M - Z
United States Postal Service Abbreviations Glossary Numeric
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