Effective July 28, 2014, the Postal Service™ will revise Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM®) section 705.8, Preparing Pallets, to provide a clarification on the alternate sortation of parcels prepared on pallets at Parcel Select® DSCF prices.
DMM 705.8.20.1, Basic Preparation, Parcels on Pallets, states that parcels for each SCF area must be sorted to 5-digit scheme, 5-digit, or 3-digit (nonmachinable) destinations on pallets. When the DMM was revised to include 3-digit nonmachinable destinations for DSCF prices, the word “nonmachinable” was inadvertently omitted from DMM 705.8.20.2, Alternate Preparation, Parcels on Pallets. Therefore, the Postal Service will revise DMM 705.8.20.2, to clarify that parcels prepared on pallets under alternate preparation for Parcel Select DSCF prices be sorted to 3-digit nonmachinable destinations.
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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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705.8 Preparing Pallets
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705.8.20.2 Alternate Preparation, Parcels on Pallets
DSCF price mailings not prepared under 8.20.1 may be prepared as follows:
[Revise the first sentence of item 705.8.20.2a to read as follows:]
a. General. All DSCF price mail in the mailing must be sorted to 5-digit scheme, 5-digit, or 3-digit (nonmachinable) destinations under 8.20.2 (i.e., mail prepared under 8.20.1 and mail sacked under 255.4.2 must not be included in a mailing prepared under 8.20.2).***
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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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Pricing, 7-24-14
