Effective January 24, 2021, the Postal Service™ will revise Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM®), sections 202.8.1 and 604.5.5, for clarity and consistency, and to update Share Mail® standards.
The Postal Service is transitioning Centralized Account Processing System accounts to Enterprise Payment System accounts. Section 604.5.5a will be updated to reflect this change. Section 604.5.5 will also be revised to clarify that Share Mail is a many-to-many mailing service, and to update the position title from manager to director of the executive to whom customers wishing to participate in the Share Mail program must submit their request.
In addition, the Postal Service will revise sections 202.8.1 and 604.5.5c for clarity and consistency regarding the Share Mail requirement to use facing identification mark (FIM) E.
Although the Postal Service will not publish these revisions in the DMM until January 24, 2021, the 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
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202 Elements on the Face of a Mailpiece
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8.0 Facing Identification Mark (FIM)
8.1 Using FIMs
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[Add new item f. to read as follows, and renumber current item f. as item g.]
f. Share Mail cards and letter-size pieces mailed under 604.5.5.
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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)
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5.5 Share Mail
[Revise the introductory text of 5.5 and item a. to read as follows:]
Share Mail is an electronic postage payment mechanism for many-to-many mailings of single-piece First-Class Mail letters or postcards, addressed to any domestic address, that weigh no more than one ounce each. Customers wishing to participate in this program must submit their request in writing to the director, Product Management, Mailing Services, USPS, 475 L’Enfant Plaza SW, Room 2P846, Washington, DC 20260-1011. Customers participating in the Share Mail postage payment program must, at a minimum, meet the following requirements:
a. Have an Enterprise Payment System (EPS) account link with USPS;
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[Revise the text of item c. to read as follows:]
c. Have approved mailpieces that bear unique or static Intelligent Mail barcodes, an approved permit imprint indicium in the upper right-hand corner of the mailpiece, and a facing identification mark (FIM) E printed on the mailpiece as specified in 202.8.0.
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The Postal Service will incorporate these revisions into the next edition of the online DMM, which is available via Postal Explorer® at pe.usps.com.
— Product Classification, Marketing, 12-3-20
