Effective October 7, 2013, the Postal Service™ will revise Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM®) 243, 343, 363, 443, 463, and 707 to consolidate carrier route accuracy standards for Standard Mail, Bound Printed Matter, and Periodicals carrier route mail into a new section, DMM 602.7.0. The standards and methods to incorporate carrier route accuracy for mailpieces are similar for each class of mail; however, differences will be enumerated within the new section, DMM 602.7.0.
Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM)
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200 Commercial Letters and Cards
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240 Standard Mail
243 Prices and Eligibility
6.0 Additional Eligibility Standards for Enhanced Carrier Route Standard Mail Letters
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[Revise the title and text of 6.2 as follows, deleting the subsections 6.2.1 through 6.2.5.]
6.2 Carrier Route Accuracy Standard
Addresses used on pieces claiming any Enhanced Carrier Route prices must meet the carrier route accuracy standard in 602.7.0.
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300 Commercial Flats
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340 Standard Mail
343 Prices and Eligibility
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6.0 Additional Eligibility Standards for Enhanced Carrier Route Standard Mail Flats
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[Revise the title and text of 6.2 as follows, deleting the subsections 6.2.1 through 6.2.3.]
6.2 Carrier Route Accuracy Standard
Addresses used on pieces claiming any Enhanced Carrier Route prices must meet the carrier route accuracy standard in 602.7.0.
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360 Bound Printed Matter
363 Prices and Eligibility
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5.0 Additional Eligibility Standards for Presorted and Carrier Route Bound Printed Matter Flats
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[Revise the title and text of 5.4 as follows, deleting the subsections 5.4.1 through 5.4.3.]
5.4 Carrier Route Accuracy Standard
Addresses used on pieces claiming any Carrier Route prices must meet the carrier route accuracy standard in 602.7.0.
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400 Commercial Parcels
440 Standard Mail
443 Prices and Eligibility
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6.0 Additional Eligibility Standards for Marketing Parcels Mailed as Product Samples
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[Revise the title and text of 6.2 as follows, deleting the subsections 6.2.1 through 6.2.3.]
6.2 Carrier Route Accuracy Standard
The carrier route accuracy standard in 602.7.0 must be met for each address on detached address labels (DALs) used with Product Samples mailed at targeted prices.
460 Bound Printed Matter
463 Prices and Eligibility
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5.0 Additional Eligibility Standards for Carrier Route Parcels
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[Revise the title and text of 5.2 as follows, deleting the subsections 5.2.1 through 5.2.3.]
5.2 Carrier Route Accuracy Standard
Addresses used on pieces claiming any Carrier Route prices must meet the carrier route accuracy standard in 602.7.0.
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600 Basic Standards for All Mailing Services
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602 Addressing
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[Add new 7.0 to read as follows:]
7.0 Carrier Route Accuracy Standard
7.1 Basic Standards
The carrier route accuracy standard is a means of ensuring that the carrier route code correctly matches the delivery address information. For the purposes of this standard, address means a specific address associated with a specific carrier route code. Addresses used on pieces claiming any Periodicals carrier route prices, any Standard Mail Enhanced Carrier Route prices (including DALs used with Product Samples), or any Bound Printed Matter carrier route prices are subject to the carrier route accuracy standard and must meet the following requirements:
a. Each address and associated carrier route code used on the mailpieces (or DALs) in a mailing must be updated within 90 days before the mailing date with one of the USPS-approved methods in 602.6.2.
b. Each individual address in the mailing is subject to the carrier route accuracy standard.
c. If the carrier route code (and accuracy) of an address used on a mailpiece in a carrier route mailing at one class of mail and price is updated with an approved method, the same address may be used during the following 90 days to meet the carrier route accuracy standard required for mailing at any other class of mail and price.
7.2 Exception
The carrier route accuracy standard does not apply to mail of any class bearing a simplified address format under 602.3.0.
7.3 USPS-Approved Methods
Carrier route coding must be performed using CASS-certified software and the current USPS Carrier Route Product or another Address Information System (AIS) product containing carrier route information subject to 509.1.0 and 708.3.0. Printed Carrier Route Files (schemes) may be used only for Periodicals carrier route mailpieces and for Standard Mail Enhanced Carrier Route flat-size mailpieces.
7.4 Mailer Certification
The mailer’s signature on the postage statement certifies that the carrier route accuracy standard has been met for each address in the corresponding mailing presented to the USPS.
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700 Special Standards
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707 Periodicals
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13.0 Carrier Route Eligibility
[Revise the title and text of 13.5 as follows, deleting the subsections 13.5.1 through 13.5.3.]
13.5 Carrier Route Accuracy Standard
Addresses used on all Periodicals pieces claiming any Carrier Route prices must meet the carrier route accuracy standard in 602.7.0.
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We will incorporate these revisions into the next monthly update of the online DMM available via Postal Explorer® at http://pe.usps.com.
— Product Classification,
Pricing, 9-19-13
