Handbook F-101 Revision: Vending Stamp Stock Sales

Effective February 1, 2010, AIC 012, Forever Stamp Sales Vending, and AIC 096, Vending Equipment Postage Sales, has been deactivated and placed on the reserved list. These AICs will no longer be used at Post Office™ facilities or postal retail units for stamp vending sales. Stamp vending equipment has been removed from service, therefore stamp vending operations are no longer sup­ported by the Postal Service™. Handbook F-101, Field Accounting Procedures, will be modified to remove all ref­erences to stamp vending machines or stamp vending operations.

In an effort to reduce the destruction cost of vending stamp stock, window retail services are no longer restricted from sales of vending stamps. Stamp distribution offices and stamp services centers will remove the ordering restrictions so any postal retail unit may order specific vending stamps to be sold at window retail services.

The POS ONE system will be updated to automatically map the sale of vending stamps to the appropriate Walk-in Revenue AIC based on the product item number captured when scanned at the time of sale.

The IRT equipment locations must enter the sales of vending stamps into their corresponding AIC 007, Forever Stamp Sales — Window Services, AIC 084, Breast Cancer Semi-Postal Stamps, or AIC 090, Postage Stock Sales.

The following vending stamps will be available for sale at Post Offices and postal retail units:

 

Vending Products	Item No.	Previous AIC	Walk-in Revenue AIC
Forever Books ‘09	679200	012	007
Forever Books ‘09	679211	012	007
Forever Books ‘07	676500	012	007
Forever Books ‘07	676511	012	007
Breast Cancer Semi-Postal	367200	096	084
Kestral Stamp	314100 ST	096	090
Tiffany Lamp	314200	096	090
Navajo Jewelry Make-up Stamp	315900	096	090
Navajo Jewelry Make-up Stamp	315800	096	090

Handbook F-101, Field Accounting Procedures

[Delete 5-6, Self-Service Postal Center and Vending Cred­its.]

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[Delete 9-1.3, Banking Procedures for Vending Units.]

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[Delete 11-8.5, Self-Service Postal Centers.]

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[Delete 13-5, Stamp Vending Credit Count.]

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[Delete 21-6, Vending Equipment.]

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Appendix A Account Identifier Code/General Ledger Account Crosswalk

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[Revise the following AICs in Appendix A to read as follows:]

 

AIC	Master Title	General Description	GLA	FPR	Revenue
012	Reserved	Reserved	Reserved	Reserved	Reserved
096	Reserved	Reserved	Reserved	Reserved	Reserved

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We will incorporate these revisions into the next updated version of Handbook F-101 available on the Accounting website:

n Go to http://blue.usps.gov/wps/portal/accounting.

n Under “References”, click the Handbook F-101, Field Accounting Procedures (FAP) link.

The direct URL is http://blue.usps.gov/accounting/_pdf/HandbookF-101.pdf.

— Field and International Accounting, Controller, 2-11-10