Terminology

Acronyms & Initialisms

Here are acronyms or initialisms often used by our Support team, or in the industry. Our documentation web pages have these names abbreviated. If you are new to the industry, you may want to bookmark this page for future reference.

Acronym/Abbreviation	Term
1PP	1-PASS Prep™
AWAM	Advanced Workflow Automation Manager™ (AWAM™)
CRID	USPS Customer Reference ID
DMP	DAT-MAIL Prep™
DTAC	Delivery Technology Advocacy Council
ES	Enterprise Shipper™
IMb	USPS Piece Intelligent Mail Barcodes
IMB	USPS Container and Handling Unit Intelligent Mail Barcodes (IMcb)
IV or IV-MTR	USPS Informed Visibility Mail Tracking Application
Job	After the Mail.dat files import into DAT-MAIL, we call it a Job
Mail.dat	DTAC Mail.dat File or Mail.dat File Set
MDR Client	USPS Mail.dat Client Application
MID	Mailer ID
MO	Mail Owner
MSP	Mail Service Provider
PWN	PostalWeb®
PWC	PostalWeb Connector™
PWDD	PostalWeb Desktop Dashboard™
SSMS	Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
STID	Service Type Identifier
TA	TrueAddress™
Scheduler	Window Book Automation Scheduler™