Domestic Mail

Retirement of POSTNET and PLANET Code Barcodes

In a final rule published in the Federal Register (73FR 49333–46348) on August 21, 2008, the Postal Service™ provided advance notice that commercial letters and flats with POSTNET™ barcodes will not be eligible for automa­tion prices as of May 2011.

Mailers requesting Confirm® service for their automa­tion letters or flats currently use either an Intelligent Mail® barcode or a PLANET Code® barcode, in combination with a POSTNET barcode. Therefore, when POSTNET barcodes are retired in May 2011, Confirm subscribers who continue to use the POSTNET and PLANET Code barcode combina­tion will no longer be eligible to claim automation prices for their mailings. They will, however, be able to participate in Confirm for nonautomation mailings of letters and flats.