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DMM Revision: Clarification of Pricing Eligibility for Standard Mail Saturation Flats

Effective March 3, 2014, the Postal Service™ will revise Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM^®) 343 and 602 to clarify that pricing for Standard Mail^® saturation flats with simplified addresses is different than for saturation flats with specific delivery addresses.

Prices for commercially-entered Standard Mail satura­tion flats with simplified addresses are found in Notice 123, in the Standard Mail carrier route flats table under the col­umn headed “Every Door Direct Mail^®.” Prices for satura­tion flats with specific addresses are found under the column headed “saturation.”

Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual

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300 Commercial Flats

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340 Standard Mail

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343 Prices and Eligibility

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6.0 Additional Eligibility Standards for Enhanced Carrier Route Standard Mail Flats

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6.5 Saturation Enhanced Carrier Route Standards

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6.5.2 Saturation Prices for Flats

[Revise the introductory text of 6.5.2 to read as follows:]

There are two different sets of saturation prices for Stan­dard Mail flats; one for pieces with specific addresses and another for pieces with simplified (Every Door Direct Mail) addresses. Saturation prices apply to each piece in a car­rier route bundle of 10 or more pieces that is:

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600 Basic Standards for All Mailing Services

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602 Addressing

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3.0 Use of Alternative Addressing

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3.2 Simplified Address

3.2.1 Conditions for General Use

The following conditions must be met when using a simpli­fied address on commercial mailpieces:

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[Revise the introductory text of item 3.2.1c to read as fol­lows:]

c. Standard Mail flats with simplified addresses must have one dimension larger than a letter-size maxi­mum dimension, except under 301.2.2.2. Simplified addressed pieces, when mailed under conditions in 301.2.2.2, are considered to be saturation flats. See 343.6.5 for pricing eligibility. Letter-size pieces that meet the size standards in 301.2.2.2 and that are ad­dressed to rural routes may be mailed as letters or flats with simplified addresses at the mailer's option.

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We will incorporate these revisions into the next update of the online DMM, which is available via Postal Explorer^® at http://pe.usps.com.

— Product Classification,
Pricing, 2-20-14