Effective April 1, 2013, the Postal Service™ is revising Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM®) 346.4.0, 366.5.0, and 707.29.0 to provide Destination Sectional Center Facility (DSCF) eligibility for 5-digit containers of bundles of addressed machinable Periodicals, Standard Mail®, or Bound Printed Matter flats deposited at Flats Sequencing System (FSS) processing facilities.
On September 4, 2012, the Postal Service revised the DMM to provide DSCF eligibility for sacks or pallets, labeled to a FSS sort plan, when deposited at a USPS® FSS processing facility. With this revision, the Postal Service further expands DSCF eligibility to 5-digit sacks and pallets that are deposited at a FSS processing facility, when the sack or pallet is labeled to a 5-digit ZIP Code™, and processed by that facility in accordance with labeling list L006. All flats containerized and entered under this option must include a full delivery address, an Intelligent Mail® barcode (IMb™), and meet the physical standards for FSS-machinability provided in DMM 705.14.
Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM)
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300 Commercial Flats
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340 Standard Mail
346 Enter and Deposit
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4.0 Destination Sectional Center Facility (DSCF) Entry
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4.2 Eligibility
Pieces in a mailing that meets the standards in 2.0 and 4.0 are eligible for the DSCF price, as follows:
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[Revise 4.2 by adding a new item d as follows:]
d. When deposited at a USPS®-designated FSS processing facility and placed in a sack, or on a pallet, and labeled to a 5-digit ZIP Code processed by that facility in accordance with labeling list L006. All pieces must include a full delivery address, an IMb, and meet the physical standards for FSS-machinability provided in DMM 705.14.
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360 Bound Printed Matter
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366 Enter and Deposit
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5.0 Destination Sectional Center Facility (DSCF) Entry
5.1 Eligibility
[Revise 5.1 as follows:]
Bound Printed Matter pieces in a mailing that meets the standards in 3.0, Destination Entry, are eligible for the DSCF price when they meet all of the following additional conditions:
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[Delete 5.1d in its entirety and revise and restructure 5.1b as follows:]
b. Are deposited at:
1. a DSCF listed in L005 or a USPS-designated facility, and are addressed for delivery within the DSCF's service area, or
2. a USPS-designated FSS processing facility and placed in a sack, or on a pallet, and labeled to a 5-digit ZIP Code processed by that facility in accordance with labeling list L006. All pieces must include a full delivery address, an IMb, and meet the physical standards for FSS-machinability provided in DMM 705.14.
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700 Special Standards
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707 Periodicals
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29.0 Destination Entry
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29.4 Destination Sectional Center Facility
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29.4.2 Price Eligibility
Determine price eligibility as follows:
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[Revise and restructure 29.4.2b as follows.]
b. Container Prices. Mailers may claim the DSCF container price for SCF and more finely presorted containers entered at and destined within the service area of the SCF where the container was deposited. The following also applies:
1. Mailers may claim the DSCF container price for a FSS sort plan container when deposited at the USPS-designated FSS processing facility responsible for processing it.
2. Mailers may claim the DSCF container price for a sack or pallet deposited at a USPS-designated FSS processing facility and labeled to a 5-digit ZIP Code processed by that facility in accordance with labeling list L006. All pieces must include a full delivery address, an IMb, and meet the physical standards for FSS-machinability provided in DMM 705.14.
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We will incorporate these revisions into the next monthly update of the online DMM, which is available via Postal Explorer® at http://pe.usps.com.
— Product Classification,
Pricing, 3-7-13
