Effective June 24, 2012, the Postal Service™ will revise the Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM®) 705.5.3.2 to add new price and postage markings when mailers apply affixed postage to pieces in a multiline optical character reader (MLOCR)-produced mailing that is eligible for promotional pricing. This revision corrects a revision published as part of the article “DMM Revision: Mobile Commerce and Personalization Promotion” in Postal Bulletin 22336 (5-3-12, pages 18–20) effective July 1, 2012.
The correction is to the codes used for Standard Mail®. “PR” will designate regular Standard Mail postage, and “PN” will designate Nonprofit Standard Mail postage. The previously published markings for First-Class Mail® are correct as published.
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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5.0 First-Class Mail or Standard Mail Mailings With Different Payment Methods
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5.3 Producing the Combined Mailing
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5.3.2 Price and Postage Marking
The following markings must be applied to each piece in the mailing when markings are applied by an MLOCR.***
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b. Standard Mail (letters only):
[Revise item b by inserting two new rows after the row with the price and postage category of “Barcoded Nonprofit Permit Imprint,” as follows:]
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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, 5-31-12
