Policies, Procedures, and Forms Updates

Manuals

DMM Revision: Laminated Card-Type Letter and Postcard

Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM^®) section 201.3.2 states that automation letter- or postcard-priced mailpieces must be “made of paper.” Mailers who have established that their laminated card-type letters and postcards are made of paper and not plastic have been eligible to mail those items at automation letter or postcard prices. Those mailers were grandfathered in as stated in the April 6, 2009, Federal Register notice (74 FR 15380-15384).

The Postal Service™ will publish a new Customer Support Ruling (CSR), PS-350, Laminated Card-Type Letter and Postcard, which will include a matrix of requirements that allow laminated card-type letters or postcards that meet size specifications to receive the applicable automation prices without any testing requirements.

CSR PS-350 will give mailers greater flexibility in designing card-type letters and postcards while increasing customer ease-of-use. Customers who were authorized under the “Grandfather Rule” and whose pieces do not meet the new CSR PS-350 requirements may request an exception to exhaust stock by contacting their local manager, Business Mail Entry.

The Postal Service will publish CSR PS-350 in the next online update of Postal Explorer^® at pe.usps.com.

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