Effective October 3, 2016, the Postal Service™ will revise Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM®), sections 201.9.0 and 243.9.0, Customized MarketMail, for simplification and consistency with standards and to remove redundancy.
The Postal Service will revise the standards in 201.9.0 to simplify the process used to determine the length and height of a Customized MarketMail™ piece. The revised standards will provide consistency in the DMM when determining the length and height of a mailpiece. Section 243.9.0 will be revised to remove redundancy.
Although this clarification will not be published in the DMM until October 3, 2016, this revision is effective immediately.
Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM)
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200 Commercial Letters, Cards, Flats, and Parcels
201 Physical Standards
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9.0 Customized MarketMail
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b. The pieces must not be smaller than the minimum size for letter-size mail in 1.0 or greater than the maximum size for flat-size mail in 4.0. Length and height are defined as follows:
[Revise items b1 and b2 to read as follows:]
1. The length is the longest dimension of the piece.
2. The height is the longest dimension perpendicular to the length.
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[Revise item e. to read as follows:]
e. Pieces must be flexible enough to fit inside a minimum-size mail receptacle measuring 15 inches long (deep), 4-7⁄8 inches wide, and 5-7⁄8 inches high.
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240 Standard Mail
243 Prices and Eligibility
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9.0 Customized MarketMail
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[Delete 9.3, Physical Standards, in its entirety and renumber current 9.4 as new 9.3.]
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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.
— Product Classification,
Marketing and Sales, 9-1-16
