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April
DMM® Update
Postal
Explorer® (pe.usps.com) is
your source for up-to-date mailing standards. The
Domestic Mail Manual
is fully searchable
on Postal Explorer and features fly-out menus, cross-reference links, and an
extensive subject index. On April 17, 2011, we updated our mailing standards
to capture the following changes:
New Mailing Standards for
Domestic Mailing Services
We revised Mailing
Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM)
401,
433, and
434 to revise pricing and eligibility
standards for commercial First-Class Mail. We additionally revised DMM
604 to eliminate the sale of Standard
Mail stamped envelopes, and DMM
360,
370, and
380 to extend changes to weight
computations for Package Services flats to mirror changes made previously
for Package Services parcels. We also made a minor change to DMM 201 to
clarify new terminology regarding Standard Mail nonmachinable letters.
New
Mailing Options for Flats and Irregular Parcels Bearing a Simplified Address
We
revised Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail
Manual
(DMM)
602.3.2 to extend the option
to use a simplified address format to Periodicals flats and irregular
parcels and Bound Printed Matter flats, intended for distribution to city
delivery routes and to Post Office (PO) box sections in Post Office
locations with city delivery service.
We
revised Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail
Manual
(DMM)
202.4.0,
302.4.3,
402.3.3 and
508.1.2 to clarify that uninsured
parcels and parcels not requiring a signature may bear the endorsement,
“CARRIER—LEAVE IF NO RESPONSE.”
Express Mail and Priority Mail Open and Distribute — Clarification of
Destination
Entry
We
revised Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail
Manual
(DMM)
240,
340,
360,
440,
450,
460,
705, and
707 to clarify that mail expedited by
the proper use of Express Mail Open and Distribute and Priority Mail Open
and Distribute is eligible for destination entry prices, as applicable for
the shape and class of mail. We also revised DMM
705.17.0 to add Area Distribution
Center (ADC) and Auxiliary Service Facility (ASF) as destination entry sites
for Express Mail Open and Distribute.
Introduction of Priority Mail Forever Prepaid Flat Rate Packaging and
Shipping
Services Revisions
We
revised Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail
Manual
(DMM)
123,
124.1.0,
125.1.0,
213.1.0,
223.1.0,
313.1.0,
323.1.0,
423.1.0, and
604.9.0, to introduce Priority Mail
Forever Prepaid Flat Rate packaging and to clarify Shipping Services DMM
revisions from January 2011.
Domestic Shipping Services Product Launch of Parcel Select Regional Ground
and
Shipping Services Clarifications
We
revised Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail
Manual
(DMM )
401.1.0,
401.2.0,
453.1.0,
453.3.0,
454.1.0,
455.7.0,
456.1.0,
456.2.0,
503.4.0,
503.9.0,
503.10.0,
508.7.0,
602.1.0,
602.3.0,
705.2.0,
705.6.0,
705.7.0,
705.8.0,
705.16.0,
705.21.0,
708.6.0, and labeling list, to
introduce a new competitive shipping option, Parcel Select Regional Ground
service and clarify mailing standards from the January 2011 Shipping
Services price change.
We revised Labeling
List(s)
L001,
L002,
L004,
L005,
L006,
L007,
L009,
L010,
L011,
L201, and
L606 to reflect changes in mail
processing operations.
Our next
scheduled DMM update is June 6.
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