Effective November 7, 2011, the Postal Service™ will revise the Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM®) 707.8.3.4 to amend the authority for noncompliance from the postmaster to the Pricing and Classification Service Center (PCSC) when a publisher does not file PS Form 3526, Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation (All Periodicals Publications Except Requester Publications), or publish the information provided on the form.
Publishers for each publication approved for Periodicals pricing must file PS Form 3526 on or before October 1 every year. Publishers of Periodicals approved as general or requester publications must publish the details reported on this form in an issue of the publication to which it relates. The information must be printed either as a reproduction of PS Form 3526 or as data in an issue whose primary mailed distribution is produced not later than October 10 for publications issued more frequently than weekly; or not later than October 31 for publications issued weekly or less frequently but more frequently than monthly; or in the first issue whose primary mailed distribution is produced after October 1 for all other publications.
Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM)
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700 Special Services
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707 Periodicals
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8.0 Record Keeping Standards for Publishers
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8.3 Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation
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8.3.4 Noncompliance
[Revise 8.3.4 as follows]
If a publisher does not comply with the filing or publishing standards of 8.3 and, after receipt of notice by Certified Mail from the postmaster, the publisher further fails to comply within 10 days, the postmaster must notify the Pricing and Classification Service Center (PCSC) (see 608.8.4 for contact information). The PCSC may suspend or revoke the Periodicals mailing privileges, as appropriate.
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We will incorporate these revisions into the next monthly update of the online DMM, which is available via Postal Explorer® at http://pe.usps.com.
— Product Classification,
Pricing, 10-6-11
