Effective July 14, 2024, the Postal Service™ will revise Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM®), to reflect changes to certain prices and mailing standards established by the Governors of the United States Postal Service for the following competitive products:
n Recipient Services.
n Other.
New prices and an article with detailed revisions to be made to the DMM regarding these standards will be available on the Postal Explorer® website at pe.usps.com. Competitive product changes are identified by product as follows.
No retail or commercial price or structural changes are scheduled for July 14, 2024, for the following products:
n Priority Mail Express®.
n Priority Mail®.
n USPS Ground Advantage®.
Return Services
USPS Returns
No USPS Returns structural changes are scheduled for July 14, 2024.
Mailer Services
Pickup on Demand Service
The Pickup on Demand® service fee will remain the same.
USPS Tracking Plus Service
The USPS Premium Tracking Service™ prices will remain the same.
USPS Label Delivery Service
The USPS Label Delivery Service™ prices will remain the same.
Recipient Services
Post Office Box Service
The competitive Post Office Box™ service prices will remain the same.
Premium Forwarding Service
Premium Forwarding Service® (PFS®) prices will remain the same.
Premium Forwarding Service Local Expansion
Premium Forwarding Service Local (PFS-Local) is being expanded to have mail that is addressed to a residential/ individual, and business/organization Post Office Box dispatched to a street address when both addresses are within the same local-servicing Postal Service facility or sorting and delivery center (S&DC).
USPS Package Intercept
The USPS Package Intercept® fee will remain the same.
Other
Address Enhancement Service
Address Enhancement Service competitive product prices will remain the same.
Small-Parcel Forwarding Fee
The small parcel forwarding fee will remain the same.
New Network Future State Nomenclature Mapping
Under Phase 1 of the Postal Service network future state, the Postal Service is revising the DMM to provide site-mapping nomenclature for facilities (e.g., network distribution center/regional processing and distribution center [NDC/ RPDC]). Phase 1 will not include site mapping in the Quick Service Guides (QSGs) or revisions to destination entry pricing nomenclature or labeling lists.
In some cases, where there is overlapping nomenclature in the DMM for market dominant and competitive products (e.g., DMM 204.3.0), the site-mapping nomenclature is included in the “New Mailing Standards for Domestic Mailing Services Products” Federal Register notice (89 FR 27330-27353).
Resources
The Postal Service provides additional resources to assist customers with this price change for competitive products. These tools include price lists, downloadable price files, and Federal Register notices, which are on the Postal Explorer® website at pe.usps.com.
These standards will become effective on July 14, 2024.
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The Postal Service will incorporate these revisions into the next edition of the online DMM, which is available on Postal Explorer at pe.usps.com.
— Product Classification, Product Solutions, 7-11-24
