Effective April 4, 2022, the Postal Service™ will revise Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM®), sections 123.1.4.2, 223.1.6.2, and 703.2.1.2, for clarity and to remove references to the Priority Mail® Board Game Large Flat Rate Box.
The Postal Service has decided to discontinue production of the Priority Mail Board Game Large Flat Rate Box. This decision is based on the inability to run this box on package processing equipment, costs associated with manually processing this box, and reduced customer usage of this box in recent years.
The Postal Service will continue to provide domestic and Army Post Office/Fleet Post Office/Diplomatic Post Office (APO/FPO/DPO) Flat Rate prices to customers who present a Priority Mail Board Game Large Flat Rate Box for mailing. However, the Postal Service will no longer offer the Priority Mail Board Game Large Flat Rate Box. The Priority Mail Large Flat Rate Box will remain available as a Postal Service offering.
The Postal Service intends to ask that the Postal Regulatory Commission remove the applicable dimensional reference from the Mail Classification Schedule.
Although the Postal Service will not publish this revision in the DMM until April 4, 2022, 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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120 Priority Mail
123 Prices and Eligibility
1.0 Prices and Fees
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1.4 Flat Rate Packaging
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1.4.2 Flat Rate Boxes — Price Eligibility
[Revise the second sentence of the introductory text to read as follows:]
***Mailers are charged a flat rate per each USPS-produced Priority Mail Flat Rate Box regardless of the domestic destination or actual weight (up to 70 pounds) of the mailpiece.***
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[Revise the text of items c. and d. to read as follows:]
c. Large Flat Rate Box to domestic destinations.
d. Large Flat Rate Box and “special version of this box” identified with the additional logo “Americasupportsyou.mil” to APO/FPO and DPO destinations. This box is priced less to mail than the conventional domestic Large Flat Rate Box. If the special version of the APO/FPO Flat Rate Box is used for non-APO/FPO and DPO destination addresses, domestic or international Large Flat Rate Box prices will apply.
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200 Commercial Mail Letters, Cards, Flats, and Parcels
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220 Priority Mail
223 Prices and Eligibility
1.0 Prices and Fees
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1.6 Flat Rate Packaging
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1.6.2 Flat Rate Boxes — Price and Eligibility
[Revise the second sentence of the introductory text to read as follows:]
***Mailers are charged a flat rate per each USPS-produced Priority Mail Flat Rate Box regardless of the domestic destination or actual weight (up to 70 pounds) of the mailpiece.***
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[Revise the text of items c. and d. to read as follows:]
c. Large Flat Rate Box to domestic destinations.
d. Large Flat Rate Box and “special version of this box” identified with the additional logo “Americasupportsyou.mil” to APO/FPO and DPO destinations. This box is priced less to mail than the conventional domestic Large Flat Rate Box. If the special version of the APO/FPO Flat Rate Box is used for non-APO/FPO and DPO destination addresses, domestic or international Large Flat Rate Box prices will apply.
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700 Special Standards
703 Nonprofit USPS Marketing Mail and Other Unique Eligibility
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2.0 Overseas Military and Diplomatic Post Office Mail
2.1 Basic Standards
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2.1.2 APO/FPO Priority Mail Flat Rate Boxes
[Revise the text of 2.1.2 to read as follows:]
Only USPS-produced Flat Rate Boxes are eligible for Flat Rate Box prices. Mailers are charged a flat rate per each Flat Rate Box regardless of the domestic destination or actual weight (up to 70 pounds) of the mailpiece. The Large Flat Rate Box and “special version of this box” identified with the additional logo “Americasupportsyou.mil” addressed to APO/FPO and DPO destinations are priced less to mail than the conventional domestic Large Flat Rate Box. If the special version of the APO/FPO Flat Rate Box is used for non-APO/FPO and DPO destination addresses, domestic or international Large Flat Rate Box prices will apply.
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The Postal Service will incorporate these revisions into the April 4, 2022, edition of the online DMM, which is available via Postal Explorer® at pe.usps.com.
— Product Classification,
Product Solutions, 2-24-22
