Effective April 7, 2025, the Postal Service™ will revise Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM®), section 604.9.4.10, to reflect that the Postal Service no longer requires that a list of the mailing presenter’s customers be on file with the Postal Service for value-added postage refunds that require the customer to submit PS Form 8096, Request to Pay Postage Refunds to Presenter of Mail.
Although the Postal Service will not publish this revision in the DMM until April 7, 2025, these standards are effective immediately.
Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM)
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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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9.0 Exchanges and Refunds
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9.4 Value-Added Refunds
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9.4.10 PS Form 8096 Required
[Revise the text of 9.4.10 to read as follows:]
An original PS Form 8096 must be completed and signed by the mailing presenter on behalf of each customer whose metered pieces are eligible for a value-added refund (VAR), or signed by each of the presenter’s customers whose metered pieces are eligible for a VAR. The original PS Form 8096 must be on file with the postmaster where the mailings are deposited for acceptance and payment. If postage is affixed to the pieces using a postage-evidencing system by an intermediate agent (not the presenter of the mailing) for the owner of the pieces, a signed PS Form 8096 must be on file from the agent whose postage-evidencing systems were used to affix the postage. Refund requests are denied if all required PS forms 8096 are not provided.
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The Postal Service will publish this revision in the April 7, 2025, edition of the online DMM, which is available on Postal Explorer® pe.usps.com.
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