Effective April 7, 2014, the Postal Service™ will revise Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM®) 707.13.2.0 to clarify carrier route pricing eligibility for pieces in Flat Sequencing System (FSS) bundles and placed in FSS Scheme and Facility Sort sacks under DMM 707.14. The January DMM update indicated that FSS Scheme bundles had to be on pallets. When palletization is not required, however, bundles of carrier route Periodicals flats properly placed in sacks or approved alternate containers (such as flat trays) also qualify as FSS Scheme bundles.
* * * * *
Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM)
* * * * *
700 Special Standards
* * * * *
707 Periodicals
* * * * *
13.0 Carrier Route Eligibility
* * * * *
13.2 Sorting
13.2.1 Basic Standards
***Carrier route prices apply to copies that are prepared in carrier route bundles of six or more addressed pieces each, subject to these standards:
* * * * *
b. Nonletter-size mailings. Carrier route prices apply to carrier route bundles that are sorted in one of the following ways:
* * * * *
[Revise the text of 13.2.1(b)4 to read as follows:]
4. Bundles prepared on pallets or in sacks (or approved alternate containers) under 705.14.0.
* * * * *
We will incorporate these revisions into the April 7, 2014 update of the online DMM, which is available via Postal Explorer® at http://pe.usps.com.
— Product Classification,
Pricing, 3-6-14
