Effective March 13, 2008, the Postal Service™ is revising the Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM®) to eliminate the requirement that mailers provide samples of Repositionable Notes (RPNs) and Customized MarketMail® (CMM) samples with extra corresponding postage statements to the Pricing and Classification Service Center (PCSC).
Current standards for CMM require that mailers provide a sample of CMM pieces and an extra copy of the corresponding postage statement to the Postal Service to forward to the PCSC. In addition, current standards for RPN require that mailers provide two RPN sample pieces to the PCSC and USPS Engineering Letter Technology.
This revision eliminates the requirement that mailers provide such documentation to the PCSC.
Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM)
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700 Special Standards
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705 Advanced Preparation and Special Postage Payment Systems
1.0 Customized MarketMail
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1.4 Preparation Standards
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1.4.4 Documentation
[Revise the text of 1.4.4 by deleting the second and third sentence and revising the last sentence as follows:]
A complete, signed postage statement, using the correct USPS form or an approved facsimile, must accompany each mailing. Mailings of nonidentical-weight pieces or mailings using more than three different types of containers must also be supported by standardized documentation meeting the standards in 708.1.0. Documentation for nonidentical-weight pieces is not required if the correct postage is affixed to each piece.
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709 Experimental Classification and Rates
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3.0 Repositionable Notes
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3.6 Compliance
Mailers must comply as follows:
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[Revise the text of 3.6c to eliminate the requirement that mailers provide RPN samples to the PCSC, as follows:]
c. As part of each mailing, mailers must include two pieces addressed to the manager, USPS Engineering Letter Technology, Attn: RPN Sample (see 608.8.0 for address).
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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, which is available via Postal Explorer® at http://pe.usps.com.
— Mailing Standards,
Pricing and Classification, 3-13-08
