Effective with the pricing change on May 14, 2007, we are revising the Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM®) to offer Delivery Confirmation™ service for pieces mailed at the new Not Flat-Machinable (NFM) Standard Mail rates.
NFM pieces are rigid or nonuniformly thick flat-size pieces and large pieces (15 inches to 15-3/4 inches long or 3/4 inch to 1-1/4 inches thick) that we do not process on our primary flats-sorting equipment and usually handle and deliver as parcels. This new subcategory provides mailers a lower-than-parcel rate option for pieces that do not meet our revised standards for flats. For more information about NFMs and the pricing change, please refer to the April 6, 2007, special Postal Bulletin or to www.usps.com/ratecase.
Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM)
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400 Discount Mail Parcels
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440 Discount Parcels
443 Rates and Eligibility
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4.0 Rate Eligibility for Standard Mail
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4.6 Extra Services for Standard Mail
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4.6.2 Eligible Matter
[Revise 4.6.2 as follows:]
Extra services may be used only with pieces mailed at machinable parcel, irregular parcel, or Not Flat-Machinable rates.
4.6.3 Ineligible Matter
Extra services (other than certificate of mailing service) may not be used for any of the following types of Standard Mail:
[Revise item a as follows:]
a. Pieces entered as letters or flats.
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500 Additional Mailing Services
503 Extra Services
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9.0 Delivery Confirmation
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9.2 Basic Information
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9.2.2 Eligible Matter
[Revise 9.2.2 to offer Delivery Confirmation Service for Standard Mail Not Flat-Machinable pieces as follows:]
Delivery Confirmation is available for First-Class Mail parcels, for all Priority Mail pieces, for Standard Mail prepared as Not Flat-Machinable pieces or as machinable or irregular parcels (electronic option only), and for Package Services parcels under 401.1.0. For the purposes of using Delivery Confirmation with a Package Services parcel, the parcel must meet these additional requirements:
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We will incorporate these revisions into the printed version of the DMM and into the monthly update of the online DMM available via Postal Explorer® at http://pe.usps.com.
— Mailing Standards,
Pricing and Classification, 4-12-07
