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DMM Revision: Preparing Origin Mixed Area Distribution Center Sacks on Pallets

Effective May 12, 2008, the Postal Service™ is revising the Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM^®) 705.8.10.1 to allow Periodicals mailers to place origin mixed area distri­bution center (OMX) sacks on origin sectional center facility (SCF) pallets. We are also providing a new option for mail­ers to create OMX pallets.

Scanning of pallet labels enables mailers and the Postal Service to track mail received in our processing facilities. Mail not presented on pallets may prove more difficult to track because there is no label to scan. This revision will allow OMX sacks to be placed on an origin SCF pallet or an origin OMX pallet when no origin SCF pallet is produced.

These changes will be incorporated in our May update of DMM 705 as noted below.

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

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8.0 Preparing Pallets

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8.10 Pallet Presort and Labeling 8.10.1 Periodicals—Bundles, Sacks, or Trays

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[Revise item i to reflect new preparation option for OMX sacks by adding a new fourth sentence as follows:]

***Mailers may place origin mixed ADC (OMX) sacks on ori­gin SCF pallets. Labeling:

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[Revise 8.10.1 by renumbering the current item k as the new item l and adding a new item k to describe a new preparation option for OMX pallets as follows:]

k. Origin Mixed ADC (OMX), optional, no minimum, permitted for sacks only. Pallet may contain carrier route, automation rate, and/or presorted rate mail.

Labeling:

1. Line 1: Use the destination information shown in L201, Column C, for mail entered at the corre­sponding entry post offices in L201, Column A.

2. Line 2: “PER” or “NEWS,” as applicable; followed by “FLTS,” “IRREG,” or “LTRS,” as applicable; followed by “BARCODED” (or “BC”) if pallet contains automation rate mail; followed by “NON­BARCODED” (or “NBC”) if pallet contains nonau­tomation rate mail; followed by “WKG.”

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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, 4-24-08