Effective March 3, 2008, the Postal Service™ is revising Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM®) 507.5.6.1 and 705.17.0 to remove a restriction on the mail that can be gathered by the Postal Service before delivery and reshipped via Express Mail® reshipment service. Previous to this change, this service was available only for mail originally addressed to Post Office™ boxes. We encourage customers who are Express Mail Corporate Account holders to use Express Mail reshipment service, which is now available to mail addressed to Post Office boxes and to business street addresses.
Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM)
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500 Additional Mailing Services
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507 Mailer Services
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5.0 Pickup on Demand Service
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[Revise heading of 5.6 as follows:]
5.6 Express Mail Reshipment Service
[Revise heading and text of 5.6.1 as follows:]
5.6.1 Reshipment Service
The USPS gathers mail addressed to post office boxes or business street addresses and dispatches it as a Custom Designed or Next Day Service shipment under a service agreement (PS Form 5637, Corporate Account/Custom Designed Agreement) between the USPS and the mailer, subject to these standards:
a. Service frequency is scheduled.
b. The mailer is charged a Pickup on Demand fee each time mail is collected for reshipment from a post office, no matter how many post office boxes or business street addresses the mailer may have at that office.
c. Express Mail postage and fees are paid by Express Mail Corporate Account or federal agency “Postage and Fees Paid” indicia. The sack or container and its contents are considered a single piece for calculation of the Express Mail price of postage and must not exceed 70 lbs.
d. The mailer must keep a postage-due, Merchandise Return Service, or Business Reply Mail account at the postal facility where the post office box or business street address is located for any shortpaid, Merchandise Return Service, or Business Reply Mail. The service agreement (PS Form 5637) must state that such an account exists.
e. Express Mail reshipment service is not available for Registered Mail, Certified Mail, COD, Insured Mail, or Express Mail items. The mailer must give instructions for redirecting such items on PS Form 1093, Application for Post Office Box or Caller Service, for mail originally addressed to post office boxes, or on PS Form 5637 for mail originally addressed to business street addresses.
f. The service agreement must list the Expedited Service specialist at the originating office as the “Firm Representative” and show the pickup time is when the USPS employee gathers the mail and prepares it for dispatch as Express Mail.
g. Commencement and termination of service agreements are subject to the standards for Express Mail Custom Designed Service.
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700 Special Standards
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705 Advanced Preparation and Special Postage Payment Systems
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[Revise heading and text of 17.0 as follows:]
17.0 Express Mail Reshipment Service
The USPS gathers mail addressed to post office boxes or business street addresses and dispatches it as a Custom Designed or Next Day Service shipment under a service agreement (PS Form 5637) between the USPS and the mailer, subject to these standards:
a. Service frequency is scheduled.
b. The mailer is charged a Pickup on Demand fee each time mail is collected for reshipment from a post office, no matter how many post office boxes or business street addresses the mailer may have at that office.
c. Express Mail postage and fees are paid by Express Mail Corporate Account or federal agency “Postage and Fees Paid” indicia. The sack or container and its contents are considered a single piece for calculation of the Express Mail rate of postage and must not exceed 70 lbs.
d. The mailer must keep a postage-due, Merchandise Return Service, or Business Reply Mail account at the postal facility where the post office box or business street address is located for any shortpaid, Merchandise Return Service, or Business Reply Mail. The service agreement (PS Form 5637) must state that such an account exists.
e. Express Mail reshipment service is not available for Registered Mail, Certified Mail, COD, Insured Mail, or Express Mail items. The mailer must give instructions for redirecting such items on PS Form 1093, Application for Post Office Box or Caller Service, for mail originally addressed to post office boxes, or on PS Form 5637 for mail originally addressed to business street addresses.
f. The service agreement must list the Expedited Service specialist at the originating office as the “Firm Representative” and show the pickup time is when the USPS employee gathers the mail and prepares it for dispatch as Express Mail.
g. Commencement and termination of service agreements are subject to the standards for Express Mail Custom Designed Service.
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We will incorporate these revisions into the next 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, 2-28-08
