Effective September 7, 2010, the Postal Service™ will revise Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM®) 453.3 to remove standards for loyalty and growth rebates. This revision follows up on the article “Pricing and Mailing Standards Changes for Shipping Services”, which announced elimination of these rebates in the November 10, 2009, Federal Register notice (74 FR 57899–57904).
The Postal Service also will revise DMM 602.1.5.3 to note that all Parcel Select® pieces must have a return address, in accordance with current standards in 453.3.6 (included below for information purposes).
Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM)
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400 Commercial Parcels
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450 Parcel Select
453 Prices and Eligibility
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3.0 Price Eligibility for Parcel Select
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[Delete current items 3.6 through 3.7 in their entirety and renumber current item 3.8, Delivery and Return Addresses, as new 3.6.]
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600 Basic Standards for All Mailing Services
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602 Addressing
1.0 Elements of Addressing
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1.5 Return Addresses
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1.5.3 Required Use of Return Addresses
The sender’s domestic return address must appear legibly on:
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[Redesignate current items h through m as new items i through n and add new item h to read as follows:]
h. Parcel Select.
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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, 8-12-10
