Jan 13, 2015 · What’s an AFCS? The Advance Facer Canceler System (AFCS) positions and cancels collection mail, reads barcodes on pre-barcoded mail, and identifies and prints a barcode on mail that is not already barcoded. The AFCS also culls or removes mailpieces that are too thick, too stiff, too long or too tall into a reject stacker for additional processing.

The Advanced Facer Canceller System (AFCS) is an electro-mechanical mail handling system. A high-speed machine used by the US Postal Service to cull, face, and cancel letter mail through a series of automated operations. AFCS was first implemented in 1992, and is capable of processing 30,000 pieces of mail per hour.

AFCS/ISS Operating System Guidelines Handbook PO-424 August 1999 Transmittal Letter A.Purpose. This handbook provides operating guidelines and performance criteria for the Advanced Facer Canceler System/Input Subsystem (AFCS/ISS) that is in use nationwide. It is for use only on Postal Service premises during regular workhours. B.Distribution.

Apr 2, 2008 · The 550 Advanced Facer Canceller System (AFCS) machines will replace existing sorters operating on 1980’s technology. Today’s AFCS machine locates a stamp’s phosphorescent ink and uses it to position the letter for postmarking on …

Jan 10, 2021 · The AFCS 200 faces and cancels collection mail, reads barcodes on prebarcoded mail, and identifies by OCR and prints a POSTNET barcode on mail that is not already barcoded. Most mail from an AFCS 200 can bypass the Delivery Bar Code Sorter/Output Subsystem (DBCS/OSS) and flow directly to a DBCS.

These assignment guidelines are to be implemented at all postal installations which perform mail processing, in accordance with the implementation criteria outlined below and consistent with the terms of the 1978 National Agreement.

Mar 20, 2004 · AFCS LEARNS TO READ: Upgrade allows cancelers to sort mail. For years now, the Advanced Facer Canceler System (AFCS) has been the backbone of letter processing, allowing mail to be postmarked and properly oriented for automation processing.

Effective March 20, 2014, the Postal Service™ will apply a cancellation mark to all pieces processed on the Advanced Facer Canceller System 200 (AFCS 200) and the legacy AFCS-Optical Character Reader (AFCS-OCR). Previously, …

Jan 10, 2021 · Advanced Facer Canceler System with Optical Character Reader (AFCS/OCR) A machine with many components that culls, faces, and cancels through a series of automated operations First-Class Mail lettersize pieces received primarily from collection mail.

There is a planned reduction of six hundred and seventy-one (671) pieces of equipment throughout the country. These reductions are in violation of the following: • Article 5, Prohibition of Unilateral Action • Article 4, Technological and Mechanization Changes, Section 1.