Effective August 7, 2017, the Postal Service™ will revise Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM®), sections 134.1.1, 134.2.0, and 604.5.1.2, to clarify the payment methods for retail customers mailing First-Class Mail®.
The Postal Service will revise section 134.1.0, Postage Payment Methods for First-Class Mail, by removing permit imprint as a retail First-Class Mail payment option. Commercial customers may use retail First-Class Mail prices for mailings paid by permit imprint under certain circumstances; however, permit imprint is not an eligible payment method option for First-Class Mail entered by a retail customer. As a result of this revision, we will delete section 134.2.0, Postage Paid With Permit Imprint, in its entirety. The Postal Service will also revise subsection 604.5.1.2, Minimum Volume, to remove First-Class Mail parcels as an eligible product when qualifying to meet the 50 pieces or 50 pounds of nonpresorted single-piece domestic mail parcels submitted under the terms of an approved Manifest Mailing System (including eVS) agreement. This revision clarifies that permit imprint is not an eligible postage payment method for retail customers mailing First-Class Mail pieces.
Although we will not publish these revisions in the DMM until August 7, 2017, the standards are effective immediately.
Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM)
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100 Retail Mail Letters, Cards, Flats, and Parcels
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130 First-Class Mail
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134 Postage Payment Methods
1.0 Postage Payment Methods for First-Class Mail
1.1 Payment Method
[Revise the text in 1.1 to read as follows:]
Postage for single-piece First-Class Mail must be paid with affixed postage stamps (604.1.0), postage evidencing system postage (604.4.0), or precanceled stamps (604.3.0).
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[Delete 2.0 in its entirety.]
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600 Basic Standards For All Mailing Services
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604 Postage Payment Methods and Refunds
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5.0 Permit Imprint (Indicia)
5.1 General Standards
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5.1.2 Minimum Volume
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[Revise the second sentence of item g. to read as follows:]
g. ***Mailers may include any combination of the following products under this provision: Priority Mail Express (eVS only), Priority Mail, First-Class Package Service parcels, nonpresorted Bound Printed Matter parcels, Parcel Select Ground parcels, and single-piece Media Mail and Library Mail parcels.***
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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, 7-6-17
