DMM Revision: Additional Changes to Periodicals Sacking Requirements

Effective March 20, 2014, the Postal Service™ is revising the Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM^®) 705.9.0, 705.10.0, and 707.22 to revise sacking standards for nonautomation Periodicals flats and merged Periodicals flats to require sack preparation when 72 copies are prepared for a presort level. Sacking when 24 flats (or irregular parcels) are prepared for a presort level will become optional.

This modification supplements a revision announced in the November 1, 2012, Postal Bulletin and implemented in the January, 2013, DMM that made similar changes in 707.23 and 707.25 for carrier route and automation Periodicals flats. These changes allow Periodicals mailers to continue to reduce the number of required sacks they prepare and will contribute to improved efficiencies for the Postal Service.

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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9.0 Combining Bundles of Automation and Nonautomation Flats in Trays and Sacks

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9.2 Periodicals

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9.2.4 Sack Preparation and Labeling

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[Revise the introductory text of item 9.2.4a to read as follows:]

a. 5-digit/scheme, scheme sort required only for pieces meeting the criteria in 301.3.0; required at 72 pieces, optional at 24-piece minimum; labeling:

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[Revise the introductory text of item 9.2.4b to read as follows:]

b. 3-digit, required at 72 pieces, optional at 24-piece minimum; labeling:

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[Revise the introductory text of item 9.2.4c to read as follows:]

c. SCF, required at 72 pieces, optional at 24-piece minimum; labeling:

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[Revise the introductory text of item 9.2.4e to read as follows:]

e. ADC, required at 72 pieces, optional at 24-piece minimum; labeling:

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9.2.5 Optional Tray Preparation—Machinable Flat-Size Pieces

***Tray preparation, sequence, and labeling:

[Revise the introductory text of item 9.2.5a to read as follows:]

a. 5-digit scheme, required at 72 pieces; optional at 24-piece minimum, labeling:

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[Revise the introductory text of item 9.2.5b to read as follows:]

b. 5-digit, required at 72 pieces; optional at 24-piece minimum; labeling:

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[Revise the introductory text of item 9.2.5c to read as follows:]

c. 3-digit, required at 72 pieces; optional at 24-piece minimum; labeling:

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[Revise the introductory text of item 9.2.5d to read as follows:]

d. SCF, required at 72 pieces; optional at 24-piece minimum; labeling:

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[Revise the introductory text of item 9.2.5f to read as follows:]

f. ADC, required at 72 pieces, optional at 24-piece minimum, no overflow tray allowed, labeling:

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10.0 Merging Bundles of Flats Using the City State Product

10.1 Periodicals

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10.1.4 Sack Preparation and Labeling

[Revise the introductory text of 10.1.4 by repositioning the current first sentence as the new last sentence and revise that sentence to read as follows:]

***Mailers must prepare sacks containing carrier route and 5-digit bundles from the carrier route, barcoded, and nonbarcoded mailings in the mailing job in the following manner and sequence:

[Revise the introductory text of item 10.1.4a to read as follows:]

a. Carrier route, required, may contain only carrier route bundles. Must be prepared when there are 72 or more pieces for the same carrier route. Optional at 24-piece minimum. Labeling:

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[Revise the first sentence of the introductory text of item 10.1.4b to read as follows:]

b. Merged 5-digit scheme, required at 72 pieces, optional at 24-piece minimum.***

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[Revise the first sentence of the introductory text of item 10.1.4c to read as follows:]

c. 5-digit scheme carrier routes, required at 72 pieces, optional at 24-piece minimum.***

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[Revise the first sentence of the introductory text of item 10.1.4d to read as follows:]

d. Merged 5-digit, required at 72 pieces, optional at 24-piece minimum.***

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[Revise the first sentence of the introductory text of item 10.1.4e to read as follows:]

e. 5-digit carrier routes, required at 72 pieces, optional at 24-piece minimum.***

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[Revise the first sentence of the introductory text of item 10.1.4f to read as follows:]

f. 5-digit scheme, required at 72 pieces, optional at 24-piece minimum.***

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[Revise the first sentence of the introductory text of item 10.1.4g to read as follows:]

g. 5-digit, required at 72 pieces, optional at 24-piece minimum, except as provided in 10.1.1g for firm bundles.

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[Revise the introductory text of 10.1.4h to read as follows:]

h. Merged 3-digit. Required for carrier route, 5-digit, and 5-digit scheme bundles remaining after preparing sacks under 10.1.4a through 10.1.4g, and any 3-digit and 3-digit scheme bundles with a minimum of 72 pieces for a 3-digit area. As an option to preparing bundles in merged 3-digit sacks, mailers may place those bundles in flats trays (see 707.20.4). Labeling:***

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707 Periodicals

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22.0 Preparing Nonbarcoded (Presorted) Periodicals

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22.6 Sack Preparation—Flat-Size Pieces and Parcels

[Revise the introductory text of 22.6 to read as follows:]

For mailing jobs that also contain a barcoded mailing, see 22.1.2 and 705.9.0 or 705.10.0. For other mailing jobs, preparation sequence, sack size, and labeling:

[Revise the introductory text of item 22.6b to read as follows:]

b. 5-digit, required at 72 pieces, optional at 24-piece minimum.

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[Revise the introductory text of item 22.6c to read as follows:]

c. 3-digit, required at 72 pieces, optional at 24-piece minimum.

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[Revise the introductory text of item 22.6d to read as follows:]

d. SCF, required at 72 pieces, optional at 24-piece minimum.

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[Revise the introductory text of item 22.6f to read as follows:]

f. ADC, required at 72 pieces, optional at 24-piece minimum.

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