{"id":5222,"date":"2012-09-28T22:15:18","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T03:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=5222"},"modified":"2012-09-28T22:15:18","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T03:15:18","slug":"apwu-clerk-craft-wins-jurisdiction-on-new-afcs-200-operator-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2012\/09\/28\/apwu-clerk-craft-wins-jurisdiction-on-new-afcs-200-operator-position\/","title":{"rendered":"APWU Clerk Craft Wins Jurisdiction On New AFCS 200 Operator Position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/APWU-News10.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-5223\" title=\"APWU-News\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/APWU-News10-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(09\/28\/12) The Clerk Craft will be the primary craft for the operator position on the new Advanced Facer Canceller System (AFCS), the Postal Service has announced.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apwu.org\/news\/webart\/2012\/12-116-AFCS-Jurisdiction-Letter-120928.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">letter dated Sept. 28, 2012<\/a>, [PDF] the Postal Service wrote, \u201cAfter reviewing the input from the APWU and the National Postal Mail Handlers Union \u2026 the Postal Service has determined that on the AFCS 200, the duties performed by the operator are similar to the duties performed by a Mail Processing Clerk. Accordingly, the primary craft for the operator position on the AFCS 200 is the Clerk Craft. The primary craft for the induction activities on the AFCS 200 will continue to be the Mail Handler Craft.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The existing AFCS is a high-speed machine that culls, faces, and cancels letter mail through a series of automated operations. The AFCS 200 will perform the same functions as the existing system while also providing \u201csignificant additional capabilities,\u201d such as processing thicker mail than the existing AFCS, increased depth-of-sort capabilities, and printing a POSTNET barcode that allows mail to be directly sorted on the Delivery Barcode Sorter (DBCS), the USPS wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am pleased by this decision,\u201d said APWU President Cliff Guffey. \u201cI am optimistic that it will present additional job opportunities for our members.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(09\/28\/12) The Clerk Craft will be the primary craft for the operator position on the new Advanced Facer Canceller System (AFCS), the Postal Service has announced. In a letter dated Sept. 28, 2012, [PDF] the Postal Service wrote, \u201cAfter reviewing the input from the APWU and the National Postal Mail Handlers Union \u2026 the Postal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apwu-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5225,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5222\/revisions\/5225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}