3. STANDARD ACCOUNTING FOR RETAIL
Standard Accounting for Retail (SAFR) is a new Postal Service accounting system that uses commercial-off-the-shelf software, and best practices to collect and report revenue activity on a daily basis. Postal Service policy and processes have been reengineered and automated to match best practice controls in the package. SAFR testing began in February 2002 at district accounting offices in Northern Illinois and Northland Minnesota.

SAFR increases management information and provides daily revenue information by postal retail location. Daily revenue information will be collected from small offices on a staged roll-in starting late in calendar year 2002 via the Postal Service’s Delivery Confirmation network. By September 2003, when SAFR is fully deployed, all units will be reporting revenue on a daily basis. Data will be available in an Accounting Data Mart (ADM) within the Postal Enterprise Data Warehouse.