A LOOK AT USPS ALPHABET SOUP
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Postal acronyms and abbreviations may be practical. But at USPS, there are lots of them, and it’s difficult for anyone to know them all.
Luckily, there’s help. Publication 32, Glossary of Postal Terms, first published in 1974, has been the main source for deciphering common postal terms.
Neil Berger, manager, Transformation, Office of Strategic Planning, says Publication 32 is popular with new employees and mailers. “It helps them make better sense of nearly every function within the Postal Service,” he says.
There currently are about 2,200 postal terms. Over the years, new terms have been introduced and some have become obsolete. The 140-page publication hasn’t been updated since 1997, so the Office of Strategic Planning has been redrafting the publication and its online version. The plan is to release a new online version before the end of September.
