As part of the January 22, 2012, price change, the Postal Service™ began implementing a new mailer service called Package Intercept™. Package Intercept™ is a new domestic service that replaces the current recall of mail service as follows:
n Package Intercept can be used for any mailable Express Mail®, Priority Mail®, First-Class Mail®, First-Class Package Service, Parcel Select®, and Package Services, letter, flat, or parcel with a tracking barcode.
n Package Intercept is available by submitting PS Form 1509, Sender’s Request for USPS® Package Intercept Service, and paying a nonrefundable per-piece fee to initiate the process at the Post Office™ of mailing.
n Items located will be redirected to sender.
For all mailpieces that are redirected to the sender, the sender may be subject to payment of the applicable postage. Package Intercept is not available to international and APO/FPO/DPO destinations or on mailpieces requiring a customs label. USPS® does not guarantee the interception of a mailpiece.
Parcels may not measure more than 108 inches in length and girth combined. Package Intercept is not available for any mailpiece that indicates surface-only transportation such as Label 127, Surface Mail Only, or bears other hazardous materials markings such as “Consumer Commodity ORM-D”.
Future phases of the Package Intercept service are scheduled for 2012, and plans include introducing an online application process and expanded options to include redirecting items to a new address or to a Post Office™ as Hold For Pickup. Following the final implementation phase, PS Form 1509 will then be retired.
Commercial customers requesting Package Intercept should contact their Postal Service sales specialist or business service network representative for assistance.
See related article, “Revision of PS Form 1509, Sender’s Request for USPS Package Intercept Service,” on page 10.
— Shipping Products,
Domestic Products, 1-26-12
