Effective June 24, 2012, the Postal Service™ will revise Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM®) 503.4 and 708.5 to increase the postal insurance indemnity threshold to $5000 for integrated barcodes.
Previously, limitations on insurance indemnity have applied to postal insurance purchases in various instances, such as with electronic option Delivery Confirmation™ service or Signature Confirmation™ service using integrated barcodes. Over time, the insurance indemnity thresholds have been increased from $500 to $5000 to align all sources of postal insurance offerings to the same $5000 indemnity threshold.
Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM)
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500 Additional Mailing Services
503 Extra Services
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4.0 Insured Mail
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4.2 Basic Information
4.2.1 Description
The following standards apply to insured mail service:
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[Revise the first sentence of 4.2.1a as follows:]
a. Insured mail purchased at a retail Post Office location, including an Automated Postal Center (APC) or online through Click-N-Ship or a USPS-approved provider of PC Postage products and including customer-generated integrated barcodes (4.3.5), provides up to $5,000 indemnity coverage for articles that are lost, damaged, or have missing contents, subject to the standards for the service and payment of the applicable fees.***
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4.3 Mailing
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4.3.5 Integrated Barcodes
The following options are available for mailers who print their own labels:
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e. ***The following standards also apply:
[Revise item 4.3.5e2 as follows:]
2. Mailers may purchase insurance online for indemnity coverage of more than $200, up to $5000, with electronic option Delivery Confirmation service or Signature Confirmation service using integrated barcodes under 4.3.5d.
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700 Special Standards
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708 Technical Specifications
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5.0 Standards for Package and Extra Service Barcodes
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5.2 Other Package Barcodes
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5.2.4 Use With Confirmation Services and Insurance (Integrated Barcode)
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[Combine the first two sentences into one new revised first sentence of 5.2.4a as follows:]
a. Single Concatenated Integrated Barcode that combines postal routing information and postal insurance (503.4.0) with Delivery Confirmation service or Signature Confirmation service.***
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We will incorporate this revision into the next update of the online DMM, which is available via Postal Explorer® at http://pe.usps.com.
— Product Classification,
Pricing, 5-3-12
