In accordance with the Consumer Products Initiative (CPI) deployment in Retail, beginning with the new fiscal year only the listed philatelic products below can be sold in the 1,695 designated CPI Post Office™ locations.
An additional 4,000 offices will be allowed to sell just the 2009 Stamp Yearbook and The Postal Service Guide to U.S. Stamps (36th Edition). All the designated locations will be identified on the Retail Intranet website at http://blue.usps.gov/retail/ by mid-September. Offices will no longer order philatelic products from their Stamp Distribution Office (SDO). Designated offices will receive automatic shipments of products with a guide that provides merchandising instructions. Products will be automatically replenished after they are sold.
In preparation for this initiative, all offices should make every effort to sell all philatelic products currently in their inventories, especially those cited as coming off sale in Postal Bulletin 22266 (8-27-09, pages 49–50).Information regarding the return of philatelic items still on sale will be provided in an upcoming Postal Bulletin article.
