postalnews blog » postal jargon http://www.postalnewsblog.com more from postalnews.com Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:25:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Defining your terms http://www.postalnewsblog.com/2006/02/24/defining-your-terms/ http://www.postalnewsblog.com/2006/02/24/defining-your-terms/#comments Fri, 24 Feb 2006 12:29:34 +0000 brian http://www.postalnewsblog.com/2006/02/24/defining-your-terms/ Hidden among the piles of documents filed with the Postal Rate Commission is one that I hadn’t seen in a long time- the “Glossary of Postal Terms“.

Don’t know the difference between a RAP and the RAPS? Can’t remember what makes a container an ERMC rather than a GPMC? It’s all here, and more. Remember ‘Activity Based Management’? No, I didn’t think so. How about ‘M-bags’?

And along the way you’ll find ‘pie-cart’, ‘killer bars’, ‘lawn crossing’, ’7:01 rule’, and my favorite from the days of the LSM: ‘smiles, frowns, and upside downs’.

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