A new provision of the  2010-2015 contract between USPS and APWU allows positions to be converted into “non-traditional full time” (NTFT, pronounced “nifty”) assignments consisting of less than 40 hours. From  an APWU steward: USPS San Francisco District Postal Management “reconfigures traditional full-time bid assignments to NTFT bid assignments in response to the loss of

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USPS San Francisco District Posts over 130 NTFT Bids On Thanksgiving Day