All publishers who are authorized to mail at Periodicals rates must file a PS Form 3526, Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation, on or before October 1 of each year, at their original entry Post Office™. We updated PS Form 3526 and PS Form 3526-R, Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation (Requester Publications Only). Both PS Form 3526 and PS Form 3526-R include clarified instructions. PS Form 3526-R has also been revised to accommodate a requester publication’s eligibility for In-County and Preferred Periodicals rates.
Publishers may use either the new PS Forms 3526 and 3526-R, dated September 2007, or the last edition of the forms dated September 2006. Next year, only the September 2007 editions may be used to meet the October 1 filing deadline.
We remind local offices to maintain paper files for all PS Forms 3526 and 3526-R and to track the completion of these forms outside of PostalOne!®
The original entry Post Office must ensure that it receives a PS Form 3526 or 3526-R for each publication authorized at its office, and must review all of the information on the form. See Handbook DM-109, Business Mail Acceptance, part 696 for instructions for conducting this review. This handbook is available on the Postal Service™ PolicyNet Web site:
(The direct URL for the Postal Service PolicyNet Web site is http://blue.usps.gov/cpim.)
In addition, please remind publishers of general and requester publications to publish their Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation according to the standards in the Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM®) 707.8.3. The DMM is available on Postal Explorer® at http://pe.usps.com.
You can order the updated PS Form 3526 and PS Form 3526-R from the Material Distribution Center via touch-tone order entry (TTOE). Call 800-273-1509.
Note: You must be registered to use TTOE. To register, call 800-332-0317 and choose option 1, extension 2925. Then follow the prompts to leave a message. Wait 48 hours after registering to place your first order.
The following forms are ready to order now using the following information:
Customers and employees can also find additional forms on the Postal Explorer Web site at http://pe.usps.com; click on Postage Statements in the left sidebar. Postal Explorer also provides publications and other reference tools for mailers.
— Mailing Standards, Pricing and Classification, 9-27-07
