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Effective June 8, 2006, we are revising 707.3.3.8 and
707.3.5.4 of the Mailing Standards of the United States
Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM) to change
the requirements for attachments to bound Periodicals
mailpieces. The new standards allow mailers to attach
material to the cover of a bound Periodicals publication not
enclosed in a wrapper, as long as the mailpiece construction requirements in 707.3.5.4 and the general requirements for attachments in 707.3.3.8 are met.
Mailing Standards of the United States Postal
Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM)
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700 Special Standards
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707 Periodicals
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3.0 Physical Characteristics and Content
Eligibility
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3.3 Permissible Mailpiece Components
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3.3.8 Attachment
Mailers may attach the following material to a cover, protective cover, or mailing wrapper of a publication: |
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[Revise item c as follows:]
c. Material normally allowed within the contents of the
publication composed of advertising, nonadvertising,
or a combination of both may be attached to the cover or protective cover only when the publication and
attached material are enclosed in a wrapper or prepared under 3.5.4. No portion of the publication title
may be obscured.
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3.5 Mailpiece Construction
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3.5.4 Without Mailing Wrapper
[Revise 3.5.4 as follows:]
When the mailpiece does not have a mailing wrapper, all
the components of an unbound publication must be combined with and inserted inside the publication. Only enclosures mailable at Periodicals rates under 3.3.4 may be
included loose inside a bound unwrapped publication. An
enclosure under 3.3.3, Enclosures of First-Class Mail or
Standard Mail, or 3.3.4, Loose Enclosures at Periodicals
Rates, or a single sheet prepared as an attachment under
3.3.8c, may be securely attached on the outside of an unwrapped publication along the bound edge if it does not
exceed any dimension of the cover of the publication and
comes within 3/4 inch of the edge opposite the fold or
binding.
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We will incorporate these revisions into the next printed
edition of the DMM and into the next update of the online
DMM available via Postal Explorer at http://pe.usps.com.
— Mailing Standards,
Pricing and Classification, 5-25-06 |
