Effective June 23, 2019, the Postal Service™ will revise Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM®), sections 507 and 705, to delete inaccurate Full-Service address correction notice charges.
DMM 705.23.5.2, “Address Correction Notices,” currently states that there are address correction notice charges for Periodicals letters and flats after 60 days, and for USPS Marketing Mail® letters and flats and Bound Printed Matter flats after 30 days. However, the Postal Service never implemented address correction notice charges for these products and timeframes. Those references do not accurately reflect charges associated with Full-Service address correction service in the Mail Classification Schedule (which is currently $0.00 per notice). Therefore, the Postal Service will remove mention of these inaccurate address correction notice charges from DMM 705.23.5.2.
The Postal Service will also revise DMM sections 507.1.5.2c and 507.4.2.2d, and Notice 123, Price List, to include these revisions.
Although the Postal Service will not publish these revisions in the DMM until June 23, 2019, the standards are effective immediately.
Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM)
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500 Additional Mailing Services
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507 Mailer Services
1.0 Treatment of Mail
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1.5 Treatment for Ancillary Services by Class of Mail
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1.5.2 Periodicals
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[Revise the second sentence of item c. to read as follows:]
c. ***Except as provided for Full-Service under 4.2.2d and 705.23.5.2, an address correction service fee must be paid for each notice issued.
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4.0 Address Correction Services
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4.2 Address Change Service (ACS)
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4.2.2 Service Options
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[Revise the second sentence of item d. to read as follows:]
d. ***Mailers who present at least 95 percent of their eligible First-Class Mail and USPS Marketing Mail volume as Full-Service in a calendar month would receive electronic address correction notices for their qualifying Basic automation and non-automation First-Class Mail and USPS Marketing Mail pieces at no charge for pieces eligible for the Full-Service Intelligent Mail option as described in 705.23.0.***
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700 Special Standards
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705 Advanced Preparation and Special Postage Payment Systems
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23.0 Full-Service Automation Option
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23.5 Additional Standards
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23.5.2 Address Correction Notices
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[Delete item a. in its entirety and renumber current items b. through d. as new items a. through c. Revise the text of renumbered item b2 to read as follows:]
2. Periodicals letters and flats, provided at no charge (printed endorsement not required).
[Revise the first sentence of renumbered item b3 to read as follows:]
3. USPS Marketing Mail letters and flats or BPM flats, provided at no charge.***
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The Postal Service will incorporate these revisions into the next editiion of the online DMM, which is available via Postal Explorer® at pe.usps.com.
— Product Classification, Marketing, 5-9-19
