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D -- DEPOSIT REPORTING SYSTEM DUE 032996 POC Melicent Nhan, Purchasing Specialist, 202-268-4124. Sources are sought to support the U. S. Postal Service (USPS) Deposit Reporting System. The system contains approximately 7,000 banking post offices, each of which maintains a depository bank account. The system operates as follows: 1) at the close of each business day, each post office dispatches a deposit of the day's receipts to its depository for bank credit to the relevant depository bank account. 2) a designated post office employee makes a telephone call to the Postal Service Deposit Reporting Vendor (DRV) on a Universal ''800'' in-WATS line. 3) the DRV prepares and processes postal deposit information once each day. 4) the DRV creates a data tape in Automated Clearing House (ACH) format for direct transmission to the Postal Service concentration bank. 4) the Postal Service concentration bank receives a data transmission from the DRV once each day. 6) ACH entries must be processed and deposited within rigid Federal Reserve time schedules. Information should be sent to M. Nhan at the above address or via E-Mail at mnhan@email.usps.gov. No solicitation document is available. If this results in a solicitation, no additional sysnopsis will be published. Information must be received by the USPS no later than 4/15/96. (0089)

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