NOTICE
Retail Vending Equipment Disposition
Retail Service Equipment retains authority over
disposition of all retail vending equipment items. Therefore, offices
with inactive, obsolete, or surplus customer vending items that are being
considered for disposal action must follow the directions provided in
Handbook AS 701, Material Management, and Material Logistics
Bulletin (MLB) MLB-PP-00-004, Attachment B, issued January 7, 2002. The
mailing address for Retail Service Equipment is:
RETAIL SERVICE EQUIPMENT
UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE
475 L'ENFANT PLAZA SW RM 7670
WASHINGTON DC 20260-7670
- Retail Service Equipment,
Delivery and Retail, 3-31-05
REMINDER
Stamps by Mail - Brochure Ordering Information
The next deadline date for ordering Stamps at Your
DoorTM (Stamps by Mail®, Stamps Delivered to Your Door) brochures is April
11, 2005. This print run will be for the year-round brochure
design.
To order brochures, submit PS Form 3227-0, Stamps
At Your Door Supply Order (February 2005), to Cyril-Scott Company:
CYRIL SCOTT COMPANY
PO BOX 627
LANCASTER OH 43130-0627
Telephone: 800-466-0455
Fax: 740-689-0210
You can find this form at http://blue.usps.gov; click on Forms, then select the form by number. A copy of this
form appears on page 21 in this Postal Bulletin.
The cost per unit of 500 is $11.00. This cost includes
overprinting the address of the fulfillment office placing the order.
You may pay for orders with local IMPAC credit cards, checks, or money
orders. However, Cyril-Scott Company cannot process the order until it
receives payment. Local eBuy procedures may also apply (refer to local
procurement procedures).
Postal ServiceTM Headquarters has funded a national
procurement from this print run for 1 million brochures for the Stamps
by Mail centralized computer processing sites. For the distribution amount
for each site, see column G (1MM) of the centralized site address spreadsheet
(previously distributed to each centralized site). These quantities are
based on revenue generated by site. No local order placement is required
to receive brochures from this distribution. However, centralized sites
may order additional quantities from Cyril-Scott Company from local funds
by following the ordering instructions in this article.
All other local Post OfficesTM should follow the
ordering instructions in this article and use local funds.
Cyril-Scott Company will deliver orders within 35
calendar days after printing. Printing begins 1 week after the deadline
date, and actual receipt of the order will depend on the ultimate destination
and the corresponding delivery service standard. You should save copies
of all orders placed at your local Post Office until the order has been
received. Please ensure procedures are in effect locally for proper verification
of receipt.
- Retail Marketing,
Service and Market Development, 3-31-05 |
REMINDER
Do Not Reset Postage
Meters
Effective February 28, 2005, Post OfficesTM must
no longer reset manual postage meters. Postage meters are now remotely
reset by dial-up or Internet connection to the meter providers' electronic
resetting system. Manual reset postage meters are being retired from the
market and the last date they could be reset by Postal ServiceTM employees
was February 28, 2005.
Local Post Offices may not make any exceptions to
this stop setting instruction. All remaining meter setting keys must be
destroyed.
A poster is provided with this reminder that should
be pulled out and posted to remind employees that they must no longer
set postage meters (see page 7).
Refer customers requesting postage meter resets
to their meter manufacturer or dealer to replace their manual- set postage
meter with a remote-set postage meter.
Refer customers with questions regarding meter migration
to http://www.usps.com/postagesolutions/flash.htm for the complete
history of the meter migration schedule including references to associated Federal Register and Postal Bulletin articles.
- Postage Technology Management,
Product Development, 3-31-05 |
