Effective October 7, 2013, the Postal Service™ will revise Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM®) 608.7, which will update the Postal Service registered trademarks used throughout the DMM.
Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM)
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600 Basic Standards for All Mailing Services
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608 Postal Information and Resources
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7.0 Trademarks and Copyrights of the USPS
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7.1 Use of USPS Trademarks
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USPS trademarks must be used in the form listed in this section. Proper use of any USPS trademarks may require capitalizing the initial letters, or all the letters of the acronym, to distinguish them from terms not used as trademarks. Words and phrases that are registered trademarks may also use the registration symbol ®; words and phrases that are not registered but are still USPS trademarks may use the TM symbol. If the registration or TM symbol is not used, a reference should be placed at the beginning or end of the document, indicating the marks that are used in the publication with the following notation preceding the marks: “The following marks are among the many marks belonging to the U.S. Postal Service and are not an exhaustive list”. Registered USPS marks include, but are not limited to:
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7.2 Common Law Marks or USPS Marks with Pending Trademark Applications
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The following is a list of Common Law Marks or USPS marks with pending trademark applications that appear throughout the DMM. The TM may be used after these marks and the same trademark rules apply whenever these services or terms appear in the DMM (Note: this list changes frequently and some of these marks may become registered and will require the ®):
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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.
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