Originally created in 1959, the Postal Clerk (PC) rating was disestablished a half-century later in October 2009 with an effective date of 1 January 2010 and its personnel merged into the Logistics Specialist (LS) rating—where they essentially picked up where they’d left off.
Logistics Specialists in the Navy Enlisted Classification S12A are Independent Duty Fleet Postal Clerks and perform all the duties they had previously been assigned. These include managing Navy Post Offices (ashore and afloat); processing and dispatching all types and classes of mail and parcel post; determine the routing and transportation; preparing and maintaining postal records and reports; liaising with the United States Postal Service and the Department of Defense’s associated automated systems; and handle all customer transactions, including the sale of postage and money orders.
In fiscal year 2018, the Navy Supply Systems Command, the service’s representative in the Military Postal System, was responsible for moving 5.6 million pieces of mail and the processing of some 36,000 documents, as well handling close to $10 million in postage and money order transactions.
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