Management Instruction (MI) DM-140-2010-1, Assessing and Collecting Deficiencies in Postage or Fees, is now available on PolicyNet and is effective immediately. This new MI supersedes MI DM-140-2008-1, which is now obsolete.
This MI provides updated guidance to postal officials on the policy and procedures for assessment of a revenue deficiency when shortages are identified in the payment of applicable fees or postage due the Postal Service™.
The MI also describes the new position of manager, Revenue Assessment and Control, Headquarters, who is responsible for the assessment, if any, of:
n A revenue deficiency if the amount is equal to or greater than $100,000.
n Certain revenue deficiencies of less than $100,000.
Postmasters and managers, Business Mail Entry, or their designees, will continue to assess all other revenue deficiencies.
Appeal procedures are being revised for publication in the next electronic update of the Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM®) on July 7, 2010.
Access the complete document for additional requirements.
MI DM-140-2010-1 is available on the Postal Service PolicyNet website:
n Go to http://blue.usps.gov.
n Under “Essential Links” in the left-hand column, click PolicyNet.
n Click MIs.
(The direct URL for the Postal Service PolicyNet website is http://blue.usps.gov/cpim.)
— Revenue Assessment and Control,
Controller, 7-1-10
