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. The machine first culls or removes pieces that are too thick, too stiff, too long, or too tall. It then reads the indicia area to edge, face, and cancel the remaining letter mailstream and sorts the letters into one of seven stackers (six accept stackers and one bypass (reject) stacker). Two of the accept stackers (lead and trail) are for facing identification mark (FIM) mail, two are for mail local to the processing facility, and two are for outgoing mail. The FIM mail is taken from the AFCS/OCR directly to a delivery bar code sorter (DBCS). The local and outgoing mail is taken to a DBCS/OSS to have the POSTNET barcode printed and for further sorting.