The Postal Service will continue its current practice of attempting to contact recipients of live animals and perishables that arrive at a DDU after the critical entry time for delivery that same day to determine whether they want to take delivery at the Post Office that day or the next business day the Post Office is open.
The Postal Service intends to implement a five-day delivery schedule for mail, while maintaining a six-day delivery schedule for packages, during the first week of August 2013. The day of delivery for mail that will be eliminated is Saturday. The implementation of this five-day delivery schedule for mail is contingent on Congress not enacting legislation to prevent this change in service. Customers will be receiving multiple advance updates for their long-term business planning purposes. These updates will be sent in the mail, and will be posted at usps.com and in Post Offices, as well as reported by news media.
You should follow the status of five-day delivery operations on usps.com. The site will be updated as events occur. In addition, start your planning now by evaluating what mail acceptance and delivery services you need on Saturday. For example, if you decide you need to continue to receive Saturday delivery and you don’t have a P.O. Box, you will need to rent one. The Postal Service recommends that you plan to rent a box well in advance of the implementation date so there is no interruption of Saturday delivery of your mail. You also will need to assess what, if any, information technology and transportation changes you will need when Saturday delivery is eliminated. For example, if you take orders online and ship merchandise, you will need to change your online ordering site to take into account the elimination of Saturday delivery to street addresses.
Yes. Mail addressed to a P.O. Box will continue to be delivered on Saturday.
Express Mail will continue to be delivered seven days a week, 365 days a year. Priority Mail and all packages will continue to be delivered on Saturdays as well.
The expected delivery day of single-piece First-Class Mail deposited at a Post Office or a blue collection box before the critical entry time on Friday will be Monday if the destination is in an overnight or two-day service area, and Tuesday if it is a three-day service area. If Monday is a holiday, the expected delivery day will be Tuesday for that mail.
When five-day delivery is implemented, the Domestic Mail Manual will continue to require that live animals and perishables arrive at Destination Delivery Units (DDUs) Monday through Saturday by the critical entry time for delivery that day.
The Postal Service will continue to attempt to contact recipients of live animals and perishables that arrive at a DDU after the critical entry time for delivery that day. We will try to determine whether the recipient wants to take delivery at the Post Office that day or the next business day the Post Office is open.
Packages will continue to be delivered on Saturday.
The Postal Service currently strives to ensure parcels are delivered by Christmas and will continue to do so.
Express Mail will continue to be delivered seven days a week, 365 days a year.
Express Mail deposited in a dedicated Express Mail collection box on Saturday will be collected and processed that day, if the box is scheduled for collection. Other packages and mail deposited at Post Offices Saturday will be processed Monday. There will be no free package pickup, scheduled pickup or on-demand pickup of Express Mail or Priority Mail Saturday.
Facilities will continue to accept destinating drop shipments on Saturday and/or Sunday. The appointment times when drop shipments can be made may be reduced.
Yes. The Postal Service will work with business customers to ensure that their business is prepared for and has plans in place to adjust to implementation of five-day delivery operations. The Postal Service has developed an operational plan that will provide important details about how five-day delivery will be implemented. This information will be available at usps.com. Customers will receive multiple advance notices and information about changes in mailing services before the Postal Service eliminates Saturday delivery to street addresses. Customers also will be informed of what they will need to know to ensure seamless implementation. Notices and information will be sent to customers in the mail, and will be posted at usps.com, on collection boxes and in Post Offices. The information also will be reported in news media.
Processing and distribution centers (P&DCs) will continue to accept destinating drop shipments Saturday and/or Sunday. The appointment times when drop shipments can be made may be reduced. All mail classes with a drop-ship destination entered at a plant on Saturday and/or Sunday will have service performance measurement rules for the start-the-clock event of the day of entry.
Destination delivery units (DDUs) will continue to accept destinating drop shipments Saturday and/or Sunday. The appointment times when drop shipments can be made may be reduced. The start-the-clock event at the DDU occurs on the day the mail is entered at the DDU, Saturday or Sunday.
For all other facilities, the start-the-clock event occurs Monday if the mail is dropped Saturday and/or Sunday, with the exception of Periodicals Mail, which will continue to have a start-the-clock of the day the mail is entered, Saturday or Sunday.
You can follow the status of five-day delivery operations at usps.com. Information will be updated as events occur. In addition, start your planning process now by evaluating what advertising mail you currently have targeted for delivery Saturday that you will want delivered Friday or Monday. You will need to evaluate the changes you will need to make in your printing and transportation schedules and contracts to support that day of delivery. You will need to assess what, if any, changes need to be made to the days of the week your drop-shipped mail is entered at a postal facility. Based on your evaluation, you will need to plan for the changes.
The elimination of Saturday delivery of mail to street addresses may mean that you will need to adjust what day you target for delivery of your advertising mail. If you currently target delivery by Saturday, you will need to change your printing and transportation schedules so your advertising mail will be delivered by Friday. This could mean drop-shipping your destinating mail or entering your originating mail one day earlier than you do now.
If you currently target delivery of your destinating advertising mail by Monday or Tuesday by drop-shipping your mail Saturday or Sunday, you may have to adjust the times you enter the mail, since the hours that destinating mail can be drop-shipped at a postal facility may be reduced.
Business mail entry units (BMEUs) and Post Offices will remain open Saturday and/or Sunday and accept bulk mail. Bulk mail accepted Saturday and/or Sunday at BMEUs or Post Offices will have service performance measurement rules for the start-the-clock event on Monday. Detached mail units will continue to operate Saturday and/or Sunday and the mail makeup requirements and start-the-clock event will continue to be governed by the customer/supplier agreement.
You may need to adjust when bulk mail is deposited at a BMEU or Post Office, depending on what day you are targeting for delivery. Bulk mail accepted Saturday and/or Sunday at a BMEU will have a start-the-clock event on Monday, with the exception of:
Processing and distribution centers (P&DCs) will continue to accept destinating drop shipments on Saturday and/or Sunday. The appointment times when drop shipments can be made may be reduced. All mail classes drop ship destination-entered at a plant Saturday and/or Sunday will have a start-the-clock event of the day of entry.
Destination delivery units (DDUs) will continue to accept destinating drop shipments on Saturday and/or Sunday. The appointment times when drop shipments can be made may be reduced to the hours the retail windows are generally open. The start-the-clock event for service performance measurement at the DDU will occur on the day the mail is entered at the DDU, Saturday or Sunday.
For all other facilities, the start-the-clock event occurs on Monday if the mail is dropped on Saturday and/or Sunday.
As is the case now, there will be no mail delivery on a holiday except for Express Mail. If the holiday is a Monday, mail will not be delivered to street addresses for three consecutive days — Saturday through Monday. You will need to adjust your printing and transportation schedules, depending on whether you target delivery by Friday or Tuesday of a holiday weekend. If you target delivery by Friday and you drop-ship destinating advertising mail, you will need to enter the mail one day earlier than you do now. If you target delivery by Tuesday and you drop-ship destinating advertising mail over a weekend, you may need to adjust the time you enter the mail, since the hours that destinating mail can be drop-shipped at a postal facility may be reduced.
Remittance mail with a facing identification mark (FIM), and addressed to P.O. Boxes, will be delivered Monday through Saturday. Caller service remittance mail with a FIM addressed to a P.O. Box will continue to be available for pickup at processing and distribution centers up to seven days a week. The hours for the pickups may change on Saturday and Sunday.
Elimination of Saturday mail delivery to street addresses will have little effect on the delivery frequency of remittance mail with a FIM and addressed to P.O. Boxes. This mail will continue to be delivered/available for pickup as it is today. Remittance mailers using caller service will continue to be able to pick up remittance mail seven days a week at a P&DC. However, the hours for the pickup may change on Saturday and Sunday.
Except for Express Mail, originating mail will not be processed on Saturday as it is now. Mail will not be scheduled for collection from blue boxes on Saturday. Mail deposited at a Post Office will not be processed until Monday. Until customers make adjustments to when they mail important documents or payments to you, this will result in less reply mail that will be available to you for processing Monday through Wednesday. You may need to adjust your operations accordingly.
Business mail entry units (BMEUs) will be open Saturday and/or Sunday to accept bulk mail. Post Offices will be open Saturday to accept bulk mail. Bulk mail accepted Saturday and/or Sunday at BMEUs or Post Offices will have service performance measurement rules for the start-the-clock event on Monday. Detached mail units (DMUs) will continue to operate on Saturdays and/or Sundays and mail makeup requirements and the start-the-clock event will be governed by applicable customer/supplier agreements.
This means that bulk remittance mail (bills and statements) will continue to be accepted at DMUs or BMEUs on Saturday and Sunday. The hours a BMEU and Post Office are open on Saturday and Sunday may be reduced. This may require an adjustment to when mail is deposited at a BMEU or Post Office.
Bulk remittance mail accepted on Saturday and/or Sunday at a BMEU will have a start-the-clock event on Monday. The exception to this will be local turnaround mail originating and destinating in the service areas of a sectional center facility (SCF). Such mail will have a start-the-clock of Saturday if is accepted at a BMEU co-located with that SCF’s plant, where the mail is separated, presorted and entered prior to the critical acceptance time. In addition, mailers will have to document such mail in PostalOne! or Postal Wizard. They also will have to provide letter mail in full tray equivalent of 90-100 percent utilized and provide overflow letter mail in a separate tray. The remainder of such mailings that are not prepared to the local SCF will have a start-the-clock event on Monday. This may require you to adjust what day this mail is deposited to ensure delivery is made on the day you have targeted.
Processing and distribution centers will continue to accept destinating drop shipments Saturday and/or Sunday. The appointment times when drop shipments can be made may be reduced. All mail classes drop ship destination-entered at a plant Saturday and/or Sunday will have service performance measurement rules for the start-the-clock event of the day of entry.
Destination delivery units (DDUs) will continue to accept destinating drop shipments Saturday and/or Sunday. The appointment times when drop shipments can be made may be reduced to the hours the retail windows are generally open. The start-the-clock event at the DDU occurs on the day the mail is entered at the DDU, Saturday or Sunday.
For all other facilities, the start-the-clock event occurs Monday if the mail is dropped Saturday and/or Sunday.
The elimination of Saturday delivery to street addresses may mean that you will need to adjust the day you target for delivery of your mail. If you currently target delivery of your statements, bills, notices or advertising mail by Saturday, you will need to change your printing and transportation schedules so that your mail will be delivered by Friday. This could mean entering your mail one day earlier than you do now. If you currently target delivery of your mail by Monday by entering your mail on Saturday or Sunday, you may have to adjust the days you enter it.
Except for Express Mail, originating mail will no longer be processed Saturday. Mail will not be scheduled for collection from blue boxes Saturday. Mail deposited at a Post Office will not be processed until Monday. Until customers make adjustments to when they mail important documents or payments to you, this will result in less reply mail that will available to you for processing Monday through Wednesday. You may need to adjust your operations accordingly.
You may need to make an adjustment to when bulk mail is deposited at a business mail entry unit (BMEU) or Post Office, depending on what day you are targeting for delivery. BMEUs will continue to accept bulk mail on Saturday and/or Sunday. Post Offices will remain open Saturday. Bulk mail accepted Saturday and/or Sunday at BMEUs or Post Offices will have service performance measurement rules for the start-the-clock event on Monday. Detached mail units (DMUs) will continue to operate Saturday and/or Sunday and the mail makeup requirements and start-the-clock event will governed by applicable customer/supplier agreements.
This means that bulk bills, statements and notices mailed by financial institutions will continue to be accepted as they are today. Mail will continue to be entered at detached mail units or BMEUs on a Saturday or Sunday. The hours a BMEU and Post Office are open Saturday and Sunday may be reduced. This may require an adjustment to when mail is deposited at a BMEU or Post Office.
Bulk remittance mail accepted Saturday and/or Sunday at a BMEU will have a start-the-clock event on Monday. The exception to this will be First-Class Mail from an intra-sectional center facility (SCF) — using a L005 labeling list — accepted at a BMEU co-located with that SCF’s plant. Such mail will have a start-the-clock event of Saturday if is accepted at a BMEU co-located with that SCF’s plant, when the mail is separated, presorted and entered prior to the critical acceptance time. In addition, mailers will have to document such mail in PostalOne! or Postal Wizard. They also will have to provide letter mail in full tray equivalent of 90-100 percent utilized and provide overflow letter mail in a separate tray. The remainder of such mailings that are not prepared to the local SCF will have a start-the-clock event on Monday. This may require an adjustment to what day this mail is deposited to ensure delivery is made on the day you have targeted.
Processing and distribution centers will continue to accept destinating drop shipments Saturday and/or Sunday. The appointment times when drop shipments can be made may be reduced. All mail classes drop ship destination-entered at a plant Saturday and/or Sunday will have service performance measurement rules for the start-the-clock event the day of entry.
Destination delivery units (DDUs) will continue to accept destinating drop shipments Saturday and/or Sunday. The appointment times that drop shipments can be made may be reduced to the hours retail units are open. The start-the-clock event at the DDU occurs on the day the mail is entered at the DDU, Saturday or Sunday.
For all other facilities, the start-the-clock event occurs Monday if the mail is dropped Saturday and/or Sunday.
You can follow the status of five-day delivery operations at usps.com. Updates will be made as events occur. In addition, start your planning now by evaluating what financial statements, notices and payments you currently have targeted for Saturday delivery to street addresses, can be delivered Friday or Monday. You will need to evaluate the changes you will need to make in your printing and transportation schedules to support that day of delivery. You also will need to evaluate the day of the week you enter bulk mail based on what day you are targeting for delivery. Based on your evaluation, you will need to plan for the changes.
The elimination of Saturday delivery of mail to street addresses may mean that you will need to adjust what day you target for delivery of your advertising mail. If you currently target delivery of your advertising mail by Saturday, you will need to change your printing and transportation schedules so that your advertising mail will be delivered by Friday. This could mean drop-shipping your destinating mail or entering your originating mail one day earlier than you do now.
If you currently target delivery of your destinating advertising mail by Monday or Tuesday by drop-shipping your mail on Saturday or Sunday, you may have to adjust the times you enter the mail, since the hours that destinating mail can be drop-shipped at a postal facility may be reduced.
You should follow the status of five-day delivery operations at usps.com. The site will be updated as events occur. In addition, start your planning now by evaluating the mail that is targeted for delivery on Saturday that you will want to target for delivery Friday or Monday. You will need to evaluate the changes you will need to make in your printing and transportation schedules to support that day of delivery. You also will need to evaluate the day of the week you enter bulk mail based on the day you are targeting for delivery. Based on your evaluation, you will need to plan for the changes.
You may need to make an adjustment to when bulk mail is deposited at a business mail entry unit (BMEU), depending on the day you are targeting for delivery. Bulk mail accepted on Saturday and/or Sunday at a BMEU will have service performance measurement rules for start-the-clock on Monday, with the exception of:
Processing and distribution centers will continue to accept destinating drop shipments Saturday and/or Sunday. The appointment times when drop shipments can be made may be reduced. All mail classes drop ship destination-entered at a plant Saturday and/or Sunday will have service performance measurement rules for the start-the-clock event of the day of entry.
Destination delivery units (DDUs) will continue to accept destinating drop shipments Saturday and/or Sunday. The appointment times when drop shipments can be made may be reduced. The start-the-clock event at the DDU occurs on the day the mail is entered at the DDU, Saturday or Sunday.
For all other facilities, the start-the-clock event occurs Monday if the mail is dropped Saturday and/or Sunday.
The elimination of Saturday delivery of mail to street addresses may mean that you will need to adjust the day you target for delivery of your Periodicals (newspapers or magazines). If you currently target delivery on Saturday, you will need to change your printing and transportation schedules so that your mail will be delivered by Friday to street addresses. This could mean entering your mail one day earlier than you do now. If you currently target delivery of your mail by Monday by entering your mail Saturday or Sunday, you may have to adjust the days you enter the mail.
You should follow the status of five-day mail delivery operations at usps.com. The site will be updated as events occur. In addition, start your planning now by evaluating what newspapers or magazines that are now targeted for delivery on Saturday you will want to target for delivery Friday or Monday. You will need to evaluate the changes you will need to make in your printing and transportation schedules to support that day of delivery. You also will need to evaluate what day of the week you enter your Periodicals based on what day you are targeting for delivery. Based on your evaluation, you may need to plan for the changes.
You may need to adjust when bulk mail is deposited at a business mail entry unit (BMEU) or Post Office, depending on what day you are targeting for delivery. BMEUs will continue to accept bulk mail Saturday and/or Sunday. Post Offices will continue to accept bulk Saturday. Bulk mail accepted Saturday and/or Sunday at a BMEU or Post Office will have a start-the-clock event on Monday. Detached mail units (DMUs) will continue to operate Saturday and/or Sunday and the mail makeup requirements and start-the-clock event will be governed by applicable customer/supplier agreements.
This means that Periodicals mailed by publishers will continue to be accepted as they are today. Mail will continue to be accepted at DMUs or BMEUs on a Saturday or Sunday. The hours a BMEU and Post Office are open Saturday and Sunday may be reduced. This may require an adjustment to when mail is deposited at a BMEU or Post Office.
Periodicals Mail accepted Saturday and/or Sunday will have a start-the-clock event on Monday. The exception to this will be intra-sectional center facility (SCF) destinating bulk mail accepted at a BMEU co-located with that SCF’s plant. This mail will have a start-the-clock event of Saturday if it is accepted at a BMEU co-located with that SCF’s plant, when the mail is separated, presorted and entered prior to the critical acceptance time. In addition, mailers will need to document this mail in PostalOne! or Postal Wizard. They also will need to provide letter mail in a full tray equivalent of 90-100 percent utilized and provide overflow letter mail in a separate tray. The remainder of this mail that is not prepared to the local network distribution center (NDC) or SCF will have a start-the-clock on Monday.
Processing and distribution centers, destination delivery units (DDUs) and other facilities will continue to accept destinating drop shipments Saturday and/or Sunday. The appointment times when drop shipments can be made may be reduced. All periodicals mail drop-ship destination-entered at a plant, DDU or other facility Saturday and/or Sunday will have service performance measurement rules for the start-the-clock event of the day of entry.
The Postal Service intends to implement 5-day schedule for the delivery of mail, while maintaining a 6-day schedule for the delivery of packages, beginning during the first week of August, 2013. The delivery of mail on Saturday is the day that will be eliminated. The implementation of the five-day delivery schedule for mail by the Postal Service in August is contingent upon Congress not enacting legislation to prevent such a change in service. The Postal Service has developed an operational plan that will provide important details about how five-day delivery operations will be implemented, and this information will be available at usps.com. Customers will receive multiple advance notices and information about this change in mailing services. Customers also will be informed to ensure a seamless implementation. Notices and information will be sent to customers in the mail, will be posted at usps.com, on collection boxes and in Post Offices. The information also will be reported in news media.
You should follow the status of five-day mail delivery operations at usps.com. The site will be updated as events occur. In addition, start your planning now by evaluating what mail acceptance and delivery services you need on Saturday.If you decide that you need to continue to receive Saturday delivery of your mail and you do not have a P.O. Box, you will need to rent one. The Postal Service recommends that you plan to rent a box in advance of the implementation date so there is no interruption of Saturday delivery of your mail.
Yes. Mail addressed to a P.O. Box will continue to be delivered on Saturday.
Express Mail will continue to be delivered seven days a week, 365 days a year. Packages also will continue to be delivered on Saturday.
The expected delivery day of First-Class Mail deposited before the critical entry time on Friday will be Monday, if the destination is an overnight or two-day service area, and Tuesday, if it is a three-day service area.
Elimination of Saturday delivery of mail to street addresses will have little effect on the delivery frequency of ballots addressed to P.O. Boxes with a facing identification mark (FIM). This mail will continue to be delivered/available for pickup as it is today. Election officials using caller service will continue to be able to pick up ballots as they do now, seven days a week at a processing and distribution center. However, the hours for the pickup may change on Saturday and Sunday.
Except for Express Mail, originating mail will no longer be processed Saturday. Mail will not be scheduled for collection from blue boxes Saturday. Mail deposited at a Post Office will not be processed until Monday. This means that the expected availability of ballots with a FIM addressed to a P.O. Box that are deposited Saturday will be Tuesday, if the ballot originates and destinates in an overnight service area.