Effective January 22, 2012, the Postal Service™ will revise Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM®) 705.8.7.4 to clarify that the presort level of Standard Mail® letter-size pieces that are part of a copalletized or combined mailing must accurately reflect the postage and entry discount paid at the origin site.
This revision will align DMM standards with those published in the final rule Federal Register notice dated September 7, 2010 (75 FR 54287–54290).
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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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8.7 Copalletized, Combined, or Mixed-Price Level Palletized Mailings
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8.7.4 Standard Mail
[Revise the first sentence of 8.7.4 and add a new third sentence as follows:]
To copalletize different Standard Mail flat-size mailings, the mailer must consolidate on pallets all independently sorted trays or bundles from each mailing to achieve the finest presort level for the mailing, except that a flat-size copalletized mailing prepared under 8.11 or 8.14 using the bundle reallocation option may not always result in all bundles being placed on the finest pallet level possible. ***For Standard Mail letter-size pieces, the presort level of the mailpieces in the copalletized mailing must accurately reflect the postage and entry discount paid at the origin site, and will not always result in the finest pallet presort level possible.***
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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, 12-1-11
