Effective May 1, 2017, the Postal Service™ will revise Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM®), sections 201.2.4 and 207.2.1.2, for consistency and clarity. Specifically, the Postal Service will add In-County price text to section 201.2.4 for consistency and will make a minor edit to section 207.2.1.2 for clarity.
Although these revisions will not be published in the DMM until May 1, 2017, these standards are effective immediately.
Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM)
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200 Commercial Mail Letters, Cards, Flats, and Parcels
201 Physical Standards
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2.0 Physical Standards for Nonmachinable Letters
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2.4 Additional Criteria for Periodicals Nonmachinable Letters
[Revise the text of 2.4 to read as follows:]
The Outside-County nonbarcoded and In-County nonautomation letter prices in 207 also apply to Periodicals letter-size pieces that have one or more of the nonmachinable characteristics in 2.1.
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207 Periodicals
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2.0 Price Application and Computation
2.1 Price Application
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2.1.2 Applying Outside-County Piece Prices
a. Letters.
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[Revise the first sentence of item a2 to read as follows:]
2. Apply the “Letters—Nonbarcoded” prices to pieces that are eligible under the standards for all letters in 201 but do not include a barcode.***
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We will incorporate these revisions into the next online update of the DMM, which is available via Postal Explorer® at pe.usps.com.
— Product Classification,
Marketing, 3-30-17
