November 2, 2012

Retirement of FastForward™ Technology

This final rule Federal Register Notice was published today. We have revised mailing standards in the Domestic Mail Manual (DMM^®) to terminate the use of FastForward™ technology as a Move Update option for commercial First-Class Mail^®, First-Class Package Service™, Standard Mail^®, and Parcel Select Lightweight^®.

Mailers may begin to use the NCOALink^® MPE (mail processing equipment) licensed software system at any time to meet the Move Update standards.

See the entire notice at http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-11-02/html/2012-26697.htm.

The effective date is January 27, 2013.