Effective February 2, 2009, the Postal Service™ is revising Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM®) 707.2.2.5 and 707.3.3.5 to allow a loose supplement to be included with a bound Periodicals publication without a wrapper. Previously, any supplement to bound Periodicals was required to be included with the host publication in an envelope, polybag, or other complete wrapper.
This revision permits a loose supplement to be mailed with an unwrapped bound Periodicals publication when all of the following apply:
n It is included within the same mailing as the host publication.
n The supplement bears a proper delivery address.
n The supplement includes the endorsement “Periodicals Supplement to,” followed by the “exact title” and “issue date” of the host publication.
Besides charging pound-price postage on such a supplement, an applicable addressed-piece price is charged to each addressed supplement, in addition to the piece price charged to each addressed piece of the host publication. The applicable postage statement, PS Form 3541, Postage Statement — Periodicals One Issue or One Edition, upon which such additional per-piece prices are claimed, must be annotated to indicate the number of addressed supplements in the mailing. An appropriate revision to PS Form 3541 will be made as soon as practicable to include a field making the handwritten annotation unnecessary.
We will incorporate these revisions into the next printed edition of the DMM and into the February update of the online DMM available via Postal Explorer® at http://pe.usps.com.
— Mailing Standards,
Pricing, 1-29-09
